skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s doing everything at once, from creating the Android software running the smartphones that, through its acquisition of Motorola , it also builds...

>Phones equipped with the Android operating system are outselling the once-unassailable iPhone.

That seems to be suggesting that Motorola phones are doing well but Motorola continues to lose hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter. Ships take time to turn around but maybe the rumored X-Phone will make a difference.
@davidandgoliath you would think so. But a lot of companies ignore it.
i3[0]

Tiling window manager, very lightweight. It does its job, gets out of the way and doesn't try to push fancy stuff in my face, that's all I ask from a window manager (and more than what most of the others give me). Besides, I have my set of basic key bindings for it in muscle memory, so there's no point in changing.

[0] http://i3wm.org/
I think it's useful also for the DE developers... even if these results are from a small population, it's surely less biased than doing a poll from a blog post appearing on planet.{ubuntu|debian|gentoo|etc}.org or similar places
When I got sick of the Haskell syntax (xmonad) I moved to i3 and is enjoying it.
We got rid of a late-model Jaguar S-Type to make room for the Leaf. I'm glad we did. Cheaper to run, and just as much fun in different ways. The Leaf isn't as nicely appointed, but we've learned to live without a walnut dashboard.
I like this, even though I'm not in the user demographic, I hope you get lots of users!
not automated, but really convenient and simple (for me at least)

I don't have a wallet yet (
No, it was reported that Chinese version of Skype spies on client site. If somebody would get international version of Skype in China, it would not spy.
I saw this and I think he got it from Elon actually (just replace smartphone with rocket), I've heard Elon mentions these things a lot in interviews.
Respect, will be ditching Gnome stack when I switch to Fedora 19.

For me it's not about resource consumption, but rather, the plain suck factor (of Gnome 3)
What's stopping an attacker from harvesting session cookies, and then using them in a separate attack? I'm not that familiar with it, but possibly phantom.js hooked up to an exploit tool could work as well?

I'm not saying referrer checking is useless, but once again, you never trust user input. Ever. If you follow that rule you're decreasing attack vectors to essentially social engineering, brute force, and complex technological exploits using buffer overflows and the like (which I guess is still kind of a side effect of trusting user input).
I give to you, The Holy Grail

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-3-column-holy-gr...
In the past I was a rather hardcore kde user, but I've been using gnome shell for almost two years and I actually like it. Initially I used all sorts of extensions to make it behave more like a traditional desktop, but over time I grew fond of the defaults.

And in fairness, they did add something else http://i.stack.imgur.com/NiggU.png (last comment in the parent link).
He is solely working on Perl 6 now.
"I don't understand this mentality"

I think the mindset that describes people who say something like this may echo what others might think. Particularly the saying "pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" comes to mind [1].

Also the idea that value doesn't change and that there is no downside risk to not sellig for 1.1b cash (there is since there is always a down side to any decision to some degree).

I know of business people on a smaller scale who had passed up a almost perfect deal and held out and lost the entire deal because some event happened to change the circumstances. (Health of an individual, market, neighborhood, events (like 911, wars etc.) whatever. Things can and do change.

Take your firm that you sold for example. It is made up of key individuals. At a certain point you decided to sell. What if you had held out? Could have gotten more perhaps but also could have had something happen to a few key individuals that might make the firm less attractive. (Not thinking security consulting going out of favor though obviously).

While non of the examples that I am giving apply to tumblr I'm just pointing out that people tend to not look very closely at what they stand to lose vs. what they are holding out for. At least from what I have seen over time.

I don't know if 1.1 is the right number or not, just trying to give another angle to this.

[1] Greediness maybe that's the word I am looking for here.
Did you have a self-assembled machine? This is one of the big reasons for all the shielding in big-brand computers: mitigating the potential for weird interference like this.
JWM
$0.75 CPM, 2 impressions per page, 5B pageviews a month, and lets say 10% of inventory sold (which from personal/anecdotal experience seems generous)... $9M/year in revenue?
I have the exact same config, without urxvt. Awesome is great. Really lightweight and fast, like Arch, actually.
Uruguay. The main website for real estate here is El Gallito by the local newspaper El País. There's also BuscandoCasas (http://www.buscandocasa.com/) , which is pretty decent but doesn't have map-based search.

I'm a bit worried about legal implications, linking and scraping are not well seen here.
No Enlightenment users?
Ubuntu with running XFCE via Xubuntu package. Also run ElementaryOS.
Running on Arch with Openbox, dmenu and Conky.
I was about to switch to crunchbang today and realized it required too much customization to get it the way I need it. Sticking with unity for at least a little bit longer...
I use fvwm. The ability to work easily with windows bigger than the screen is vital on a netbook.
In reddit you dont advertise your general offering, but make a special offer for them. Specially engineered to create a positive response. Due to how each sub reddit is a world in itself. I market a lot on reddit and it is simply the best social like place to market rightnow.
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fluxbox mostly but sometimes stumpwm or awesome.
Arch + fvwm
Then you don't know anything about Ruby and Python warts. Take yourself out of the conversation please or at Google before you blather.
Luxury cars can start from the ground up. In the case of the Leaf, the first line is "start with a Nissan Versa..." Plus there are all kinds of trade-offs between aerodynamics, noise reduction, aesthetics, and cost.

Me, I'm fine with the looks of the Leaf. But we also own the original Scion xB.
I use xmonad at home and I'm expefimenting with i3 at work.
You also seem to have ignored it in your post, any reason you didn't test cloudfront?
Another editplus user here.
Xfce all the way. It gets out of your way, uses little in the way of resources, and doesn't have drastic design changes every now and then just because the developers felt like it, but it still has all the basic hardware support (Wifi, Bluetooth, sound, battery) you need.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I was referring to this sentiment by Millennium, who started this thread as far as I can tell:

"But once you stray from awk's niche, things start to get awkward, and the further you go, the tougher it gets."

It is important to understand the distinction between possibility and feasibility. Or the difference between theory and practice, if you will. Even though they are opposites, both are important at the same time.

While it's not feasible for humans to move Mt. Everest, it certainly would be possible.
I don't use a file manager, as the command line does what I need without adding a bunch of stuff I don't need nor want.
Where's openbox? #! users ought to be outraged!
Would I use PhoneGap again? Maybe. In my experience PhoneGap doesn't bring much to the table. The core UI element (a thin wrapper around the native WebView) is easily replicated in less than 100 lines of code. The plugins I used were very inconsistent between Android and iOS, so in the end I spent a lot of time either wrapping them in JavaScript to make them consistent, or (re)implementing missing plugins on one platform or another (or both where they were substandard).

Yeah, it lowers the barrier to entry if you are a web developer looking to wrap your web site up as a native app, but if you have even basic skills in your target platform(s) it's very easy to replicate its functionality and you get finer control over how it starts up (which was an issue for one app I made) and your distribution file will be much smaller.

Would I use HTML5 to create hybrid apps again? For the right project, absolutely. I think other people have mentioned that there's currently no "one size fits all" solution on mobile, and JavaScript frameworks, associated tooling, and mobile browsers are definitely still in their infancy when it comes to building full-blown client-side HTML5 applications. This is one space where things are happening incredibly quickly, and even with what's available today(1), you can get acceptable results. For a small-medium sized business that simply doesn't have the money to develop and maintain applications targeting every platform (including web) hybrid development is a very appealing option.

(1) disclaimer: after some investigation of Backbone/Angular I was unimpressed with their ASP/JSP on the client model and rolled my own MVC framework, but literally millions would say I was wrong to do so
> Sound like you need to hate the players, and not the game...

Hating the players seems like a reasonable reason to avoid the game.
I've just switched to xmonad and loving it, configuring it is forcing me to learn haskell which I've always wanted to know
Fujitsu fi-5120C

Newer models are available.

For the volume I am doing, professional grade equipment is a must. I also paid around $300 for a used pro stack slicer. Trying to cut the spine off with anything less is just impractical.
i3, the tiling window manager after which I stopped trying out other tiling window managers.
Looks nice. I use xmonad when I'm on linux, and I think I might prefer the simplicity and structure.

The tabbed windows looks very useful though.
1. I think my point about repaying the loan and changing perception toward perception is largely geared toward conservative lawmakers and politicians. Some (like Romney and Palin) have grouped Tesla with the likes of Solyndra, calling them "losers". Even some of the public have the perception that Tesla received bailout money (which isn't true because the DOE loan is separate). But for the public it was around the same time as the government bailout of GM, etc. So, paying off the loan clears up misperceptions, and this can help their case with being able to sell directly to consumers in states such as Texas and N Carolina (with their bills being voted on).

2. Totally agree Tesla was smart to do it now and agree that execution isn't guaranteeing success. But money in the hands of a wise person can really accelerate a roadmap and enlarge success. I personally think Tesla is at an inflection point where the money will be very well spent and will accelerate growth and demand.

3. Regarding Elon Musk's purchase, it's true he's borrowing a bunch of money but even that still signals his confidence in the stock and its current price. And I think that's overall good to ensure investors since the stock has been very volatile of late.

4. It's true investment banks have made terrible mistakes in the past, but still lots of investors and institutions are influenced by the top investment banks. Fidelity owns $1.5b of common stock and Morgan Stanley owns $500m of TSLA common stock (as of 3/31/13, http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/institutional-holdings). Lots of institutions and funds are starting to invest in TSLA and this is providing upward pressure on the stock over time (especially if TSLA keeps meeting/surpassing expectations.

The next big milestone for Tesla is reaching 25% gross margin (which is rarely had in the auto industry). Elon Musk is promising they'll reach this milestone 4th quarter this year. If they reach it this year, it is nothing short of miraculous.
>Fine, install mg, it'll do 90% of what I need.

oh no, mg is pretty crappy. I use a lot of emacs features and the ones I just need on that file are usually not available.

If I need to choose between mg and vim I'll always use vim, it's far superior than any of these cheap emacs clones.

Use a real Emacs or use Vim... that's it.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to: they would sell for $1.1B in a heartbeat without any of this public posturing if they knew they weren't going to get any offers for more money today. They would take the money and be damn happy about it. Instead, they say "pfft, this is too low! We clearly need more for our unmonetized product!"

That's the part that pisses me off, not that they value it differently -- because they don't! They know that $1.1B is a great price for what they have to offer, they just think that they can grumble about it and get a bit more from someone else. This sort of negotiation isn't skillful, it's heavy-handed and completely and utterly transparent.
21st Century Problems
I actually came here to recommend i3-wm.
If you've never used a tiling window manager or used one but it didn't really work out,I suggest you give it a try.
@davidandgoliath I work for MaxCDN so I would probably get fired. =P
It is difficult to make small cars look interestingly designed with out being busy or cartoonish. It's one of the reasons fashion models are so tall.

In addition small cars have less room for aesthetics before they start intruding on function: cargo space, door dimensions, passenger space, ergonomics, etc.

Other constraints as mikestew points out: parts have to be useable between multiple cars, small engines and a desire for efficiency mean less wiggle room for ignoring aerodynamics
In school I once did an experiment with %112 yield.
Coincidence. The swimsuit is supposed to be unlocked by beating the game in under an hour.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/met.htm
At first I felt terrible about destroying the books. All I can say is one can get used to anything :-)

What helps is noticing that the vast majority go used on Amazon for less than a buck. Not even charities want to deal with those.
Well, a CSRF attack doesn't involve reading cookies. I believe you'd need an XSS vulnerability in order to do that. (Or, if the site isn't using SSL, just sniff the network traffic.) CSRF just transmits the legitimate cookies to the server - but with a request the victim probably didn't want to actually send. At no point are the victim's cookies able to be harvested.

You could indeed possibly forge a request after harvesting session cookies - but that isn't CSRF. It's either XSS or traffic snooping.

One way to cut down the (time) window of opportunity for an attack is to have the server generate new session tokens, and store them in the cookie, on each request, but require a valid token in order for a new token to be generated. If you have an XSS vulnerability, this is not an adequate solution, as it requires the victim to submit another request between the time the attacker steals the cookie and the time the attacker submit the cookie to the server.

So basically, use SSL and be really careful about XSS. You can trust the REFERER header and session cookies together if and only if they are both present. "Never trust user input that you have to escape or that will be rendered to the browser" is very reasonable though.
This scanner design from last year is pretty neat too.
https://code.google.com/p/linear-book-scanner/
Don't the generally just get news from Reuters and AP?
Sadly, yes, the Leaf is selling like dog shit sandwiches. The Chevy Volt is doing a little better, apparently. I don't know if it's those weekly trips from SFO to LA that people raise as an objection to EVs, or because a gasoline car is the safe bet. After almost two years of ownership, I can't imagine why anyone with the means wouldn't buy an EV as at least a second car.
Crappy business decisions deserve crappy responses. Don't advertise to your existing customers and then tell them they're ineligible for the product you spammed them with.
Enlightenment (v. 17, both with and without the tiling module enabled). http://enlightenment.org
Yep. Also what's strange is that although I do have phone numbers for many of my 'extended friends' through facebook (synced to android, facebook downloads everyone's numbers to your contact list). I would be much more comfortable contacting someone on facebook out of blue than texting out of the blue. Maybe it has something to do with that they can immediately see who I am on facebook whereas with texting they can't?
I have never encountered this distinction between activity and computation before. Assuming that you are okay to define (sequential) computation as transforming an input sequence of 1's and 0's into an output sequence of 1's and 0's, can you give me an example of something that a computer does that is not a computation and explain why?
No fluxbox or openbox??
No, definitely. Some of the changes that gnome is making really do suck for some people. but those are only a few people, and you can't make a well-designed piece of software that caters to everybody's workflow. that just isn't possible.

and none of the critics ever say "this broke my workflow, but i can see how it's a niche feature", the complaint is always "the gnome devs removed this obscure feature that only me and three other people use, because they're fucking idiots and are trying to make the software useless". if you're complaining about a change that is better for the majority, it means you're being selfish. and nobody ever seems to acknowledge that. all the armchair critics of UI changes always insist that they are complaining on behalf of everybody.
https://twitter.com/zeeg/status/297888975463542784
I use my own window manager Wingo [1] without a DE. It doesn't quite fit into the voting scheme, since it's a true hybrid window manager: it can do stacking like Openbox and automatic tiling like Xmonad.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
Similar story here - but with XFCE. It's awesome to map xfce-terminal to dropdown mode and use it as a quake style terminal.
$ curl -I http://phaven-prod.posthaven.netdna-cdn.com/uploads%2F2013-05-17%2F20%2F3128%2FErQE0vKlNMIeNvaxbneY75nWy

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 20:31:08 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml
Connection: keep-alive
x-amz-request-id: 41706FB9149898AF
x-amz-id-2: d5F1JMIBLaQzNG5A

Boo. :)
Parakweet uses natural language processing to find value in your tweets
Unity. I genuinely like it, and it's great on a smaller laptop. (If I ran a Linux desktop, I'd probably put LXDE on it.)
Back when I lived in the dorms in college, I had a metal loft bed. My desk, with computer and monitor, was underneath it.

At the end of the year, I gave back the loft. The next time I turned on my monitor, the screen was messed up. Distorted with purple waves. I stared at my monitor for a few moments, baffled.

Then I hit the degauss button, and everything was fine. My monitor had been normalized to the presence of a metal frame around it, distorting the magnetic field.
RoomScan lets you create a floorplan by touching each wall with your iPhone
Visual Studio

SQL Server Management Studio

MS Word

Far Manager

Outlook

Google Docs
To answer all the questions about sueing etc. The job she interviewed for was in the US, but her previous job where the guy gave the bad reference was in the UK. Also, we had no idea who actually gave the reference because we could find no record of the name he gave to them. I assure you, if we could have sued someone, we would have!
Interesting project, thanks for sharing a link.

I use 'bluetile' which also allows you to set "floating" vs. "tiled" on a per-workspace basis. I'm probably going to migrate to pure-tiled in the future though because GNOME 2.x is dead and I abhor 3.x
I mean, yeah, we all know, article included, that this isnt necessary conclusive results, but it is interesting. And now these girls got lots of attention for it, and by reading the article it looks like a few academics/scientists are going to pick up on the research and do "real science" on it. Also, yes, it's not like we know/read how well the experiment was controlled. For all we know, they had an excellent control, and that's why they are getting all this press. Who knows, but it happened, the researches are on it, and it was interesting. I don't got time to wait, I want my news this minute!
@kmfrk

PostHaven cut off the URI:

curl -I http://phaven-prod.posthaven.netdna-cdn.com/uploads%2F2013-0...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 20:34:13 GMT
Content-Type: binary/octet-stream
Content-Length: 52958
Connection: keep-alive
x-amz-id-2: NO6o51/19JsQJN9YHc+T/sraZSGNT+f3R+1GWl2QL3aD4SubqazjbMURb4VYaZyS
x-amz-request-id: E640348D2D6EDA7B
Last-Modified: Sat, 18 May 2013 00:47:10 GMT
ETag: "f95534e9752b560f4acdda20228f90ba"
Server: NetDNA-cache/2.2
X-Cache: HIT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
You can select a solid color in OS X as the background.
http://i.imgur.com/oYp2j5n.png
HN is a testament to what happens when you make a thing for a very specific group of people and only them.

It sort of reminds me those companies you hear about every once in a while that say "No" to being sold in Wal-Mart. It seems crazy but there is value in passing on certain kinds of growth.

The only hiccup to this plan in HN's case is that the very specific community it is targeted to is itself growing and growing. So staying "small" might be impossible.
There's a difference between same content and same medium.
I've tried codeacademy briefly before (Spent ~8 hours total on there). After only 10 minutes on codeschool it feels a lot better. It seems like it's much easier to learn it show you 'real life applications' which is one thing that I thought codeacadmy didn't do well.

I'm definetly going to be spending some time on codeschool, seems like a great site.
If only Route53 allowed you to point the apex domain at Cloudfront (as I understand it, it's currently S3 or ELB).
Same for me, and not only because its author (Michael Stapelberg) was always nice enough to answer my questions on IRC. Great Software, great support.
Real name as user name on pretty much every account I have period. Never saw the point of doing otherwise.
That feature's been on the wishlist for many, many years. It was also one of the early features specified for Perl 6, if that means anything.
Actually, it was entirely addressed at the time, at least in so far as the people who complained to the senior opers were concerned.

This is one person who's out of touch with the community ignoring the main escalation path, bothering a bunch of unrelated people, and then writing an angry blog post because the unrelated people didn't do anything about a problem that had already been dealt with.

It happens; I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I want to use gnome3 but I cannot deal with the clownshoes running it.

KDE isn't my style but it's stable enough. Currently running XFCE for simplicity.
are you a games journalist or a youtube/twitcher?
Google Plus is the most closed up social network
> 1. Use a stack slicer to cut the spine off

Ouch. This really seems like a shame. I imagine you're not destroying any books of 'value', but still... Something about willingly destroying thousands of books... :/