skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapper/Simplicity ended up being bought by Briggs & Stratton, which apparently decided to back peddle a bit:

Walmart to sell Briggs & Stratton Snapper mowers
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2013/01/17/walmart...

Here is a forum comment apparently from Jim Wier ("The Man Who Said No to Walmart") regarding the Sears deal after his departure: http://ppecongress.com/showpost.php?s=b79ee2a3f907acf9594e26...
Who Runs the Internet? [Infographic]
On the backend, Hacker News runs on one core, and Graham calls this a “remarkable feat of scaling.”

Wow, Really? I'd say that is pretty remarkable, yes. Is there anywhere that goes into more detail about this?
Interesting speculation in light of the article I read earlier that the universe may have started out with one time and one space dimension. No "sound" then ... and no gravity.

http://www.space.com/11470-universe-birth-1-dimension-physic...

http://news.discovery.com/space/once-upon-a-time-the-univers...
1. Every kde application has a menu and if it's hidden you can show it with ctrl-m (alright, not the most discoverable shortcut, but it is there)

2. Press the "control" button on the toolbar for a menu when hidden.

3. You're right about KIO urls.

Dolphin is also very fast. Even if you have enabled thumbnails for files and open a folder containing thousands of images it shows all files instantly and loads up the thumbnails in the background. I can't remember Nautilus ever doing it like that, though in fairness I stopped using Gnome when 2.2 took away the "launch terminal" option from the desktop's context menu.
I've been migrating my computers over to XMonad, as its defaults are essentially how I used E17:

* All windows tiled/maximized.
* Multiple desktops instead of minimizing/overlapping windows.
* No window dressing anywhere.
* Everything launched via terminal or a quicklauncher.

I've used E16 and E17 for well over a decade and it turns out that I've been slowly using it more and more as a tiling window manager.
They said that explicitly a few times in diffetrent talks. Realtime encoding for WebRTC is targeted for Q4.
> 2 years after the appearance of Gnome Shell

This is not a new development. They have been moving in this direction since more than a decade ago. Whoever didn't get it when 2.4 came out, probably likes the way Gnome is changing; or just wasn't a Gnome user back then.
How about the fourth kind of lazyness--not knowing what the hell to do out of the many choices available, so you sit around hoping the right choice will make itself obvious. It can turn into a very long wait.
The Science of giving
Owning less of a much larger pie does seems sensible from a monetary standpoint. It seems like you are optimizing for percentage ownership of the company instead of actual value of your stake?
Have you tried embedding fonts on WP8 using a data url? Apparently it works:

"I was able to get my font/icon set to be recognized by Windows Phone 8 using base64. Make sure you use WOFF and TTF fonts as follows (where * are the long base64 strings):"

{{{<code>
@font-face {
font-family: 'icomoon-ac';
src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64,* * ) format('woff'),
url(data:application/x-font-ttf;charset=utf-8;base64, * *) format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
</code>}}}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15819717/font-awesome-not...
Show HN: We built a random Arrested Development episode chooser
"Quite well" is an interesting view, considering they just returned to profitability after some horrible years.
They were actually doing pretty horrible.

Look, just because it takes someone with many billion dollars a long time to run out of money doesn't mean they aren't going down.
Germany won in 2010 and 1982. Finland 2006. Israel two times in a row, 1978 and 1979. Again in 1998. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eurovision_Song_Contest...

Edit: Now I realize the parent was just being sarcastic. Anyway, it's good to set the record straight.

Double edit: Come to think of it, that was a bit of like 'the most hated countries' list. Or maybe the most isolated. Good stuff!
Stop misusing the term "ad hominem". I didn't say that EA was wrong in that post (which is an essential component of that kind of argument), I said they were being hypocritical. Pointing out hypocrisy/irony is not an ad hominem argument.

Anyways, the U's launch library is admittedly abysmal, but it seems they've finally got their head around online services that don't fail completely. It only took 2.5 console generations, but there you go.

I'd compare it to the early PS3 launch if anything. Critically panned, overpriced, bad launch library.. give it some time, and I've got a good feeling the situation will improve. PS3 turned into one of the better consoles of this generation, despite Sony's best efforts to the contrary.

Also, complaints about underpowered hardware go to the bit bucket, Nintendo has pretty much always lagged behind the cutting edge on tech, any buyer/developer who doesn't understand and expect that at this point in time is not paying attention.
They'll use the GA Enterprise version which serves up to 1 Billion "hits processed per month" its £90,000[1]/$150,000[2] as a flat fee per year.

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/analytics/premium/feature...

[2] http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_us/analytics/premium/feature...
Interestingly, my productivity has increased diametrically in relation to the amount of extraneous software I avoid by eschewing any preconfigured DE.
hey Michael,

I've read your story the other day and I thought it was both amusing and clever, even if it was also clearly unethical. 5 years seems disproportional but great to see you on the outside.

If there is any way in which I can help you to jumpstart your career should you need it or throw work your way let me know and I'll see what I can do for you, email in my profile.
Money 4.0: The Internet Democratizes Money (Public For Only 24 Hours)
Maybe HN is evolving, but the community doesn't seem to be, considering all of the sensationalist news titles that constantly make up the top news, and the fact that the comments to every post contain the same overused, lame industry phrases/buzzwords: 'orders of magnitude', 'value proposition', etc.
I thought the Wii was ok, it was kind of cute that an underpowered device was outselling ms and Sony for a while. But it was clearly not going to work a second time, especially after the novelty factor of the original had fallen away. Now with Kinect especially, nintendo really needed to address performance issues and come up with something more than wii 1.1
It's semantics. The net effect is that the government forces the transfer - It's no different than if they had taxed it and granted it.
I'm friends with Bob. He was my team lead, twice, at EA. He's a talented developer and a great boss.

Nothing at all surprises me about the mixed reaction. Some people are mad because they love Nintendo. Some are mad because they hate EA. But I haven't seen a lot of people mad because they disagree with his message -- because he's speaking the truth. Nintendo's platforms are disappointing and underwhelming. Just do a search for "Nintendo Wii U sales". It's a fact. (Yet at the same time, like Bob says, Nintendo makes great games -- it's strange how that particular comment seems to have been lost in the noise!)

It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, but especially in the games industry. Gamers get emotionally attached (or opposed) to companies, platforms and games more intensely than anything else in life. Any time you say anything about anything you're risking the digital mobs coming out with the pitchforks and the torches.

And we know how mobs always take the time to pause and reflect.

His only mistake is not being Linus Torvalds talking about Nvidia.
HN is like democracy, it is flawed but it is the best we've got.
"push through and learn how to do regex in C."

Sorry, what? Do you mean use lex/flex or code up your own DFAs?
Yeah.. well, native developers want to target the latest platforms, too. :(
Unbuffered Input in the Terminal
Cloudfront doesn't offer some services that I find necessary, such as nested directory indices (e.g. example.com/folder/ instead of example.com/folder/index.html) and it doesn't return a 404 header on missing pages. I just emailed MaxCDN to see if they provide these.
Thank you! I got 15months, the OP on that thread got 5yrs. Definitely, I appreciate the contact, I'll email you soon (programming right now).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364

There are a few details here. I don't know jack about servers and stuff but this was the only place I knew it was mentioned. From what I gather in the thread it is impressive.

More specifically:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548 (pasbesoin's comment)
No kidding. Shoot an 8-foot 2x4 at the Earth at 100km/sec and guess how fast the carbon-fluff will be going when it hits. The pieces of anything that breaks up as it descends will quickly slow to their terminal velocity at that height.

NASA says the February Russian fireball was going about 11.6 miles/sec when it blew up (14 miles up) but there's a lot of denser atmo in that 14 miles.

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fireball_130301.html
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> I think S3 is a great origin server for static assets

Pro-tip: If you're using Rails, just create a distribution with your app as the origin server and in production.rb, set your asset host to your distributions host. You get the asset cache without having to do the precompile step. Tastes great with Heroku.
My comment is relevant in that FreeBSD runs many of the same applications that Linux users run, including Desktop Environments.
I wonder to what degree these people are gaming the system to get on the front page in the first place...
Flamewars likely have a mix of upvotes and downvotes that is very different than a spirited and friendly debate. For example, there might be two general groups of commenters, with most of voters upvoting one half and downvoting the other half.
> Nothing else explains why Microsoft would pay US $8 Billion for Skype.

Really? Nothing else explains why Microsoft wanted to buy talented development staff and software that was becoming the defacto name brand for video communication in homes and businesses, and which was taking market share away from Microsoft's own suite of communications solutions?
I don't get it either. 4.4 is way too low to be Reddit's current page view average. (Now, 44 would be closer.)
> This is not a website where children are learning about science.

On a website this size such assumptions are almost invariably false.
> You comment is very condescending.

I am asking serious questions. If that seems condescending to you, well, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

> You should not be trying to infer from the parent comment that dageshi is some kind of naive newby programmer who doesn't understand.

I was neither inferring nor "try to infer" that. I was questioning specific comments and pointing to specific examples of why I thought the generalizations being made were incorrect.

> dageshi made some valid comments about the role PHP fills

What were made were sweeping generalities about the superiority of PHP being evidenced by it being used in areas that Python and other languages are not, that evidenced unclear and apparently inconsistent standards as well as failure to consider Python and other non-PHP products that do, in fact, exist in the roles in which it was asserted that PHP was the only language actually being used.

> you dismissed them and instead focused on calling him/her out for being a bad/poor programmer.

Nowhere in my comment did I call anyone a bad/poor programmer. I don't mind reasonable criticism of things that I write, but I'd prefer if you didn't invent things that I never wrote and then criticize me for writing them.
>Impact Velocity - This is the velocity of the projectile before it enters the atmosphere. The minimum impact velocity on Earth is 11 km/s.

I think it's implied that the impacting objects come from outside the Earth-Moon System. Otherwise there would obviously be no minimum impact velocity.
You are mixing up your definitions.

Dilution is defined as the reduced ownership in a company. It is 100%, always, take-it-to-the-bank, written-in-stone bad for the shareholder who gets diluted.

Financing a company may create dilution and still put the shareholder in a better spot ultimately. For Tesla, a high-growth capital-intensive business, you can bet on the dilution part happening (they have to get the money from somewhere). The better off part is still an open question.
Cartoon Used Car Kharma
I would like to see an article on The Evolution of TechCrunch.
Great. I was looking for the answer to all my laziness problems in two paragraphs. My life is amazing now.

Seriously, just because a self help article comes from a Buddhist Monk doesn't make it more credible.
You don't want to install Emacs on a server? Who cares, I use TRAMP anyway.
I'm not sure I agree with you unless I'm misunderstanding the point of what you mean by what the parent said that was "extremely esoteric".

The point seems to be that we are reading a story about hacker news and someone takes issue with what appears to be an example of lazy journalism.

I could find my own examples in the article. Right off the top there are only quotes from PG and tptacek when it would have been really easy to email other users and get some thoughts to round out the story. (Not to mention the fact that it left out a fairly important point - that tptacek has the most karma on HN other than PG).
Consolidated logs + Splunk.

http://www.splunk.com/
Thanks for the info, thats very informative. Can you recommend any CDNs that work well with online video? It would be great to find one that is as easy to configure as cloudfront that doesn't have this issue.

I'm not a big fan of Akamai's control panel -- setting up new distributions is way to complicated (albeit more flexible), and configuration changes were taking almost a day to propogate.
>> "You spend all your time trying to resolve minor problems, one after another in an endless sequence, like ripples on the surface of a lake. You tell yourself that once you've finished this or that project you'll start giving some meaning to your life."

This reminds me of another insightful quip from the Dalai Lama talking about Man -- "...he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
I was a little disappointed it wasn't there. I am also a crunchbang user, but I think bodhi Linux uses it as well.
I use xmonad with a custom tiling and dzen setup that arranges my workspaces on a 3x3 grid and shows a little indicator of where I am on the grid in the way that gnome-panel used to do it (before "the accident"). All workspace navigation and window manipulation is customized, and I can fly around my desktop with ease. It took a lot of work to get running, but I wouldn't change a thing about my setup. It makes a huge difference when programming.

On a related note, has anyone been suffering from slow startup times with xmonad lately? I'm not sure if it's xmonad, or some other part of my setup, or a misconfiguration.
Anyone would pay for that?
At the moment it seems you got it almost spot on. Denmark winning, Azerbaijan strong second. Congrats!
I used to use KDE to leverage my win 9x UI habits. But now I just use xfce.

For a full featured desktop it is great.
a video game company that fires people for playing video games. got it.
> I got the feeling whatever they may have been in the past, they currently run on a fairly bureaucratic model, and are not the kind of place that inspires or rewards innovation and creativity.

You could say exactly this about most Japanese companies these days. Now what's interesting is that change may be in the air. The current prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has managed to line up the incentives correctly in the Japanese government's notoriously intransigent bureaucracy and started massive economic reform (often referred to as "Abenomics"), a topic that is the cover story of this week's issue of The Economist[0,1].

What Abe has done so far cannot create permanent change by itself, but if he is able to follow through on his other goals and make lasting structural reforms to the Japanese economy and society, then we may see an economic resurgence in Japan. That's something that the West should be looking forward to and supporting, given the need for a stronger counterweight in the Asia-Pacific region to China. It was previously believed that India would take this role, but things haven't progressed there as fast as people had hoped a decade ago[2].

0: http://www.economist.com/printedition/2013-05-18

1: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21578052-shinzo-abe-s...

2: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21577373-india-will-s...
Cloudfront as a CDN supports directory indexes and 404s, it's just S3 that doesn't. If you point a CF distribution at your own server with directory indexes enabled, CF will send those through to the user.
Your post was the very definition of an ad hominem attack -- you sought to cast aspersions on the speaker, having nothing, whatsoever, to do with the actual argument. And to humor your points, there is nothing whatsoever hypocritical or "ironic" about an EA developer criticizing a hardware device when their own organization is seeing a financial downturn (or at least they were...their last quarter was quite a rebound), and I'm perplexed how you think that is relevant.

The PS3 succeeded because it could be justified as a superlative blu-ray player, at the perfect time that people started looking for blu-ray players. The WiiU has no such advantage. The WiiU has done dismally in reviews, has little software (and little hope of much to come, given that a growing number of game makers have declared it a non-starter), and is widely anticipated to be destroyed by the soon-to-be-announced next generation of consoles. It is DoA, given that its sole opportunity was a first mover advantage but that didn't pan out.

Also, complaints about underpowered hardware go to the bit bucket

Sure...okay...
It's very very difficult to be anonymous online.
> No, an asm.js that supported all of these would still just be JavaScript, which is far more lightweight than PNaCl.

What makes asm.js "far more lightweight" than PNaCl? What more "lightweight" means here anyway?

> No, we are compiling programs that use these already, and they are not too slow as to be unusable. For example, Unreal Engine 3.

Do you mean the Epic Citadel demo which runs fine on smartphones. So you made it run more or less smoothly on beefy x86 desktops, how much of an achievement is that? Is it that "OMG I run my game from the 80s inside the browser with HTML5 CANVAS!!!" thing again?
check this out, tons of HIIT timers out there. i grew up wrestling and used to use a physical device called a gymboss which was awesome at the time. they have now made Android and iOS apps

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gymboss-2-interval-timer/id5...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halcyoni.g...
v 3 actually...
Well you have benchmarks in that talk - PNaCl is 1.2x native speed. asm.js is ~2x. Single threaded. With multiple threads PNaCl will smoke asm.js since the latter has no threads at all.

A 2x performance difference means your phone lasts 3 hours instead of 1.5 hours when playing that game. This is a huge, huge difference. Battery-powered devices make performance extremely important.
Computer is too complicated if you need to learn how to use it..
As an Australian, I've never heard a swimsuit referred to as a "bailey".

"Bathers" perhaps...
The entrepreneur's blogging dilemma
True, S3 is not a CDN, but for a lot of use cases, serving directly from S3 is fine.

Taking Vine for example, I picked a random vine from twitter (https://vine.co/v/bE3YI365gxd) and a popular vine from twitter (https://vine.co/v/bEFFxdwjK9x). The popular video and thumbnails are served from a CDN, where the new one with no traffic is served directly from S3.

YouTube did the same thing in it's early days. CDNs are not required for all traffic, and blindly recommending them is a bad prescient. They're really great for content that is frequently accessed, but their value greatly decreases on long-tail content.
I don't use Linux, but I use KDE.
My plumber is a salt-of-the-earth type and he is loaded. I told him I considered telling my daughter to get into the business. He said that she would make a killing because housewives are generally afraid to let strange men in.
Texas drone bill sparks a battle
Ask HN: how do you handle preorders (not charging CC until later)? Any gotchas?
I'm talking about getting the CC# weeks or months in advance and then actually processing payment when it's time to deliver. Also, does Stripe handle this sort of situation pretty well, or is there another payment processor that does it better?
> I have an important job to do, which is to try to save Google (although I will probably fail) from the people who are trying to destroy it.

Its probably not healthy to delude yourself into thinking you have an "important job" that centers around your -- clearly quite bad -- relationship with Google.

If you want to show the error of Google's ways, the approach you've been taking on HN simply isn't it; if you could manage the emotional distance to try rational analysis and argumentation I'd suggest that, but it doesn't seem like that is likely. Perhaps try doing something unconnected with Google that demonstrates a better way, and point to that.
TinkerCAD reopens, purchased by AutoDesk
*boxes and Enlightenment are really missing.

Also, some tiling WMs like dwm, awesome, and xmonad probably derserve to be listed separately, imho.
Code complete also talks about 3 types of laziness, and how some are more beneficial than others.

1. Deferring an unpleasant talk
2. Doing an unpleasant task quickly to get it out of the way
3. Writing a tool to do an unpleasant task so you never have to do it again
I thought 1st quarter gross margin was 5% w/o the zev credits. Elon Musk said that that was the average in the quarter, meaning that they started lower and ended higher than the 5% average. I think they're well on their way to 25% by the end of the year. In the conference call Elon shared that it took several months for the gross margin improvements they make to show up materially, meaning that they will have implemented most of their gross margin improvements months ahead of the 4th quarter. This is why Elon is so confident with 25% gross margin by the end of the year... because most of the manufacturing improvements have already been made and it just takes time to realize the increased margins.
The problem is that HN actually incentivizes commenters via a feedback loop of upvotes to make this kind of comment. HN loves facts and disagreement with facts is like playing trivial pursuit, you can show off your knowledge with 0 risk because you don't need to take up any position other than pointing out a flaw.

As they say, you don't have to play the violin at all or as well as Yehudi Menuhin to be able to point out that he just missed a note. Criticism is easy, creation is hard.
Heh, downvoted. It is a legitimate question. It's rare to see well spoken spammers with proper grammar when interacting with them like this.
The article (perhaps ironically) neglected to mention an enormous volume of submissions exist just to harvest pageviews from this community.

There is a constant flow advertisements posing as articles where startups write random fluff to get their otherwise unrelated and uninteresting startups on the front page.

There is a constant flow of mainstream blogs and people meticulously tailoring content for this site.

There have been numerous large companies that have blatantly spammed the site for years undetected, and probably plenty more that still haven't been detected judging by all the 'submissions-only' accounts churning out generic links to mainstream sites.

I don't think routine exploitation fosters a healthy, happy community.
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