skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, that's what makes them like NetWare. If IE fails to keep up, those dominos will eventually fall, albeit slowly.

There's still huge NetWare shops (like the California Energy Commission), but they're ever-so-slowly dropping away. Install base doesn't matter. Growth rates do.
I doubt his primary goal is to output great poetry. His primary goal is to enjoy his life.
Rather minimal "maths". There's no mention of the pricing models used for CDS and CDOs. That would have been more interesting.
Here's the direct link to the real-time tracker:

http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
Working at 37signals
I opened this article with reluctance, because I must have seen 5 "breaking the light barrier" stories now, all of which are based on a fallacy.
You are are right about that. Of course you could look at the question laterally - solar energy comes from fusion, so if we could master fusion, we would cut out the middle man.

ITER is trying hard, but I can't help feeling that if we had a modern day Manhattan/Apollo type project for fusion energy we could make faster progress.
At a guess, a large number of them.
In the early 1980s in California certain prominent second mortgage lenders filed bankruptcy after advertising long and loud that "you can't lose on California real estate."

In theory, when you invested, you loaned your money directly to a California homeowner secured by a deed of trust.

In reality, given that the borrower was paying 15 points on the loan, plus 24% interest, the loan hardly fell into a typical "secured" category. These borrowers were in fact taking out 3rd, 4th, and 5th loans on properties whose only "equity" consisted of paper value generated by mass phony appraisals done by or in coordination with a whole set of players who had a stake in keeping the game going.

When it all collapsed, people were observing how naive all those investors were to invest in something that sounded too good to be true.

It looks like our Wall Street wizards fell victim to the same impulse. This led to the bad assumptions that fueled their greed and to their ultimate demise.

Nothing new under the sun, said Solomon. It is all too true.
Attention Executives: 73% of You Need to Fire Yourselves
So, is it the scientist who is professing the fantasy or the reporter ?! I am just interested to know this that's all
AKA "how to write line noise".
and therein lies the predictable attitude that will keep linux a distant 3rd on the desktop.

See what I did there?
Someone should tell these newbies that "Jeff Atwood said it" is actually an argument against whatever he said.
I can save him the trouble of writing the book with one (compound) word: Crossfit.
So I assume you guys approve of him lying to his wife to get her to marry him & possibly passing on something hereditary to his kids? It's fascinating the lengths people go to in order to reproduce.
Or you could, you know, get followers by being interesting?
Nah. It is possible to make professional-quality, shiny, colorful graphics with GIMP if you know what you're doing. Sure, installing the non-default fonts (that is, not having a one-button install method) and configuring everything is what prevents most people from adopting it.

There are graphic designers who are graphic designers, and then there are web developers who are also graphic designers.

Have a look at what some "designers" are getting paid on sites like crowdSPRING.com and 99designs.com and it's pretty obvious that graphic designers who don't know code are fairly easy to find.

I think this has been why there's been such a backlash against the freelance sites by the brick-mortar "design only" firms.
Crossfit is awesome, but impossible unless you've already got some baseline level of physical fitness.
I just can't afford the monthly bill. That bill, despite my lifestyle, tells me it's a want not a need.
OOS doesn't suck it just needs more designers involved.

I am a pretty experienced designer focusing on interface design and have tried a couple of times to get involved in these kinds of projects.

But what often happens is that they coders don't really want to have designers involved before at the very end where needless to say the software suddenly dictates the experience.

It's a perfectly solvable problem and have nothing to do with OSS as such but the same thing that hit many big corporate projects.

You decide the platform before you decide on the product.
I can't agree with that... Yes, it hurts, but if you start off with shorter than usual sessions you will keep up eventually. Talk to whoever is running the classes and don't be afraid to leaave half-way through a class!
Who's foundation? I'm a web developer, so to me, I want the latest ruby, apache, etc... However, a server admin might want the more "stable" versions of the same.

I know that Gentoo, at least, has the facility to accomplish this. They have package masking, so you can specify exactly the packages you want to be kept on the bleeding edge. Taken a step further, you can set up your own "profile", and list exactly what version of each package in the system you want. Arch Linux provides something similar; you can list what versions a package shouldn't be upgraded past in a config file.

I'm sorry, but there's nothing "easy" about having to watch 50 RSS feeds or twitter uses to know when there's a new version of an app I might want, downloading it manually, and clicking next through their installer. Setting up a few config files and doing `pacman -Syu` is orders of magnitude easier.
Matt Humphrey of Bumba Labs on User Retention Curves
I disagree. That software is free might be an excuse for why not waste time on the usability, but it sure ain't a good reason if you want more than developers to use it.
Not quite!

These are embedded programmer tools of trade. For example, you don't want to loop over bits to count number of bits in it (not covered in this article, but will be in the next part of the article). It can be done with several shifts and ANDs! Huge speedups!

Another example, finding the lowest order 1-bit in a 64bit integer - it can take up to 64 iterations to find it with a loop. Instead it takes one AND and one but inversion operation (= 2 ops total)! 32x speedup!
Also, even if you don't use them, it's nice to be able to read through code and understand these "idioms".
I wish the OS was smart enough to do this automatically. I have 16GB of RAM on my workstation, and rarely use more than 8GB.
Firefox 3.5 Private Browsing
Linux users have no need to court people like you. We're not a business, market share is a meaningless metric. I don't care if 1% or 100% of the people using computers use Linux, what I care about is if there are enough people working on the projects to make it usable for ME. There are.

People who complain about FOSS community's "attitude" should really check their own sense of entitlement. We are talking about you getting something FREE that costs hundreds of thousands of man hours to make. If it takes you more than one try to get it to install then think of that as the cost to enter instead of the $150 you pay Microsoft

(incidentally Windows suffers similar problems on my home desktops SATA controller as you describe having under Linux, it is not a Linux thing it is a shitty hardware thing).
Normally, I'd agree with you.

Except here, the guy who is saying "the old thing is dead!" is one of the guys who invented the "old thing."

Stonebraker was among the first to implement a functioning relational database, and I don't think you can underestimate the importance of the Ingres papers to the field.
For those who enjoy these kind of problems I highly recommend "Hacker's delight".

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201...
I order canned tomatoes from Amazon, and prime covers it just fine. Must cost more than the tomatoes to two-day it.
if you want info on home excercising check out rosstraining.com and his books, tons of info there on workout routines you can do without a gym
Who cares? The purpose of a file selector is to select a file, not look like every other file selector in existence. Even on Windows, the Office file selector looks nothing like the Photoshop one, or the Firefox one, or the Notepad one.

At least in open source, you can hack it however you want. In fact, its fairly simple to make Firefox use the KDE file picker: Enter "about:config" in the address bar, look for the "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" key and change its value to "false". ( http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Integrate_Firefox_with_KDE... )

Edit: I was incorrect, the method I linked won't make firefox use the KDE picker, just an alternate gtk picker. But there are ways that can be found with a little bit of googling.
Also see the more advanced Bit Twiddling Hacks page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
Seconded. That is an amazing book.

I also recommend this much more complete article on bit hacks:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
So right, and let's not forget that EVERY electronic transaction incurs a cost.

To paraphrase, "I for one, welcome our future Visa overlords."
If you're in Canada, wait until October, Telus and Bell are supposedly going to break the Rogers iPhone monopoly this fall. And next year, a whole bunch of new wireless companies are joining the market. It's a bad time to be signing a 3 year contract.
Very interesting article. I myself have a fairly strong ambition to become rich. Not for the money in itself but for the -- as Dennis mentions -- the making of the money.

"Problem" is that I'm Swedish and thus live in Sweden. Becoming rich here is almost impossible, just as it is impossible to be poor.

So, what are the geographic constraints for becoming rich? I guess it boils down to the US?
Transformers: Protecting pedestrians from killer cars
Does Walmart give local, independent retailers or manufacturers floor space and transactional support?
Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
"He says he'd give anything to be young again and that no matter how much money he has, he'll never get time back."

Indeed. And yet I don't see his name in "the 300".

Why aren't these rich people throwing money at SENS research?
If you read the article instead of sneering at it, you might find it less noisy. It's an idiom. All idioms involve some learning, and generally some odd, seemingly-misapplied abstractions. But they generally have value, too, which is why they persist. In this case, the bit tricks work to map a very common metaphor in the design domain (a set of boolean flags) to a very common low-level implementation choice (the machine word).

Does your application benefit from that kind of mapping? Probably not, if it's a web 2.0 thing. But don't pretend that this sort of thing is never useful either. Somewhere down in the layers you don't understand, there is real machine code running your computer. And that code, like yours, needs compact and simple storage of booleans.
Because the "foundation" can't be seperated from the apps that way. What is that foundation? What are the apps that need to be bleeding edge. What if I don't care what version of Firefox I have, but I must have the newest version of some tool or language. But now I get a buggy RC of Firefox and it crashes a lot. I consider Firefox to be foundation for me because I just don't care about it. But you may want Firefox 1.5 to be available TODAY. It is best to aim for bleeding edge or stability, because if you try to have both you will just have total instability.
I think the point he didn't make very well was that CDOs and the direction of the stock market were correlated and most CDO participants also were stock market participants. Manchester United's chance for victory is presumably uncorrelated with either of those, so if you were a stock market participant who also bet on Manchester, you were better off than if you were a stock market participant who bet on CDOs.
John Singleton seems to be respected in the field. Perhaps this is a case of a poor analogy on his part. Regardless, nothing here violates relativity.

Perhaps the focus should be on the possibility that he has found a way to create a highly focused pulse that can propagate to far greater distances than normally are possible - albeit still under the speed of light.
Because they are not ready for prime-time. The Weave platform only has one feature implemented so far (Weave Sync), and Ubiquity just recently (like last week) figured out what kind of parser it was going to use. Sure, they're awesome features (I use both!), but they don't count if they don't get shipped.
Every time I read one of these posts, which admittedly is only via HN lately, the suspicion that I am being trolled grows. This almost seems to be borne out by the numerous corrections that are almost always to be found in the comments.

More seriously; in some ways, I feel bad for the position Jeff Atwood is in. On the one hand, I don't think he really intends to speak with the authority implied by his prominence, but on the other hand, he has his prominence.
I don't have a reason, but I do have an explanation: the only ox being gored belongs to the students, who are a captive audience.
Eh. We rode around in an equipment van with no seats, much less seatbelts, and which burned lots of juicy leaded gas. Different times.
All these disproportionately strong reactions show that Tim Ferriss is still relevant and still very good at what he does

Correct, if Tim Ferriss is a professional annoyatron.
I think it's unfortunate that the article does not provide real examples where these bit hacks are used. Why would I want to be able to unset the left-most 1 bit of a series of bits?
There is a review here http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/virtualization-sho...

Basically they are all pretty similar, if you use it in a serious environment there are probably more tools and consultants that will tune Vmware server for you, but for ordinary use it's probably a wash.
Frankly, CLRS goes over a lot of the basic knowledge you need to get through the book. I don't think a discrete math textbook will help you if your main goal is to get through CLRS; the math in that book isn't that dense. Like all things, it just takes practice. Spend a lot of time on sections that are hard to understand, and future sections will become a lot faster and easier.

Try the MIT algorithms video lectures:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
You are over complicating the matter.

I agree that finding the right tool is sometimes hard because there are so many options. My general rule is open up the package manager (System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager) and search for what I need. Then I google the 3 or 4 options and see what people recommend, and just install that one.

I just let Uninstall do its thing, if it misses a few pieces it doesn't really matter. If it really bothers you just use Purge instead of Uninstall.

As for repositories, again you are overcomplicating matters. You really just need to know if it is in the repositories you have connected or not, you might have 40 repositories by default but it doesn't matter which it is in to you. I generally add 1, max 2 repositories to my machine but thats it.

You also don't need the public keys, you can just hit YES when it asks if you want to use it, though I am sure that is not recommended. Generally the instructions just include a command to copy and paste into the command line i.e. Medibuntu's instructions.
Keep beating that strawman, you're sure to make a point eventually.

The argument isn't whether or not Linux is useful to a bunch of nerds, myself included, or whether or not I should kiss rms for bestowing this gift unto humanity for free. It's whether it's competitive against its better known closed source counterparts on the Desktop. And you basically answered that question in your first paragraph.
I agree with most of what you say. But I don't think that being able to do "pretty much whatever you want" is absolute.

Much of what we want depends on other people working for us. I don't think that's going to go away, quite the contrary. Services are an increasingly bigger share of what we want than ever before.

So you're right that relative wealth/poverty will not disappear and that it's here by definition is what I meant by "statistical issue". But that also means that some of us will not be able to do pretty much whatever they want.
Amazon Prime does not apply to the upper 2 states (Hawaii and Alaska) but you can still get super saver shipping on a huge range of goods. Thus Amazon is really the first port of call in any online shopping expedition around here.

The reason for this is that most other online merchants only ship FedEx or UPS, and their Hawaii/Alaska rates are just insane - easily exceeding the cost of whatever it is you are buying in most circumstances. Because Amazon uses USPS (as well as a service called ParcelPool), even when you want to pay for shipping in order to have a faster delivery they are still a better option.
He's marketing his variations on the RDBMS - Vertica/C-Store, VoltDB & SciDB. Twelve years ago he was talking about Object Relational databases supplanting the RDBMS.
Benches, Coffee and Bubbles - the entrepreneurial origin of banking
I agree Tim has some very shady practices that I believe are unethical, but he does have some good information on his blog as well. Also, no one can deny he is a skilled marketer.

In any case I have much less respect for Penelope after reading that rant. She comes off as a very jealous and spiteful person.
I want to know how I can get back to reading a book a day... oh wait, there's a whole bunch of reasons I don't want to be 11 again...
I tried out the <video> tag on the 3.5 About page, but it still uses Flash. I thought the whole point was to go native and avoid Flash?
It's important if you install windows in a VM to install the "guest tools" with Virtual box.. it makes it 100x more responsive. Don't forget this step.
While this would be great if it was true, I highly doubt it. Bell and Telus are on a cdma network, currently no cdma iPhone exists. So unless apple has one hiding around for all this time, we are not getting any iPhones on Telus or Bell.

As for the new companies, who knows?

Edited for grammar(which is still terrible, just less terrible).
You were likely downmodded because a one-line question question doesn't really add to the discussion. Also, telling people to upmod your comment just because they do something you do isn't helping you.
Then you're not cut out to be an artist. Being an artist is the same as getting rich--you have to have the fight in you for it. The payoff is just different (usually).
As far as I can tell, the 73% number comes from "Only 27% of those between the ages of 18-30 say Twitter is an important rapid-feedback tool for business."

So executives who don't think Twitter is the second coming should fire themselves. Thanks TechCrunch.

Sigh.
Please explain why, so we don't have to actually read the article ourselves. You could be doing other community members a great service by saving them the time to read articles that, according to your comment, aren't worth reading. However, your comment is useless without explaining why we needn't bother to read the article.
If 1 year old 8 core 8GB boxes are only going for $400, what can I do with a bunch of 3 year old 2 core 4GB boxes, where it's making more sense for me to replace them with newer boxes that use less power and space?
It's well named, I have to admit. Whenever he writes something like this I really do feel a kind of horror. I had to look up "Linq", by the way.
I use the "Boss Key" extension (press a key and hides the window). This hides the current window, but not future windows. If I click the Firefox icon again, it comes up as fast as opening a new window.
The idea is something I consider lame. Having said that you will probably make a nice little pile of cash from it anyway. So I suggest you spruce up that landing page. Listing 4 rules doesn't really give me an idea of what in hell your site is doing. I just happened to glance at the titlebar and learnt what the site does. A good book on UI design helps a lot. And to top it off you don't support OAuth.
The New Nuclear Revolution
I was expecting to see "None of them" as kind of a joke.

For a web app developer are these useful? For fun? yes. For profit? no. Title should be Low Level Bit Hacks You May Find Interesting.
You miss the point. The Gimp and Inkscape, as for as they go, are great tools - if you care about nothing but the Web.

They are in no way, shape, or form, ready for the print production environment. Not even close.
Left-brain / right-brain split ain’t what it used to be
Has anyone made a privacy mode that deals with local shared objects (flash cookies)? What would it take, sandboxing a process to run that plugin?

http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html
A lower population means less need be spent to provide health-care services per individual. That three-quarters of the Canadian population living within 150 kilometers (which is approximately 62% the distance of 150 miles) means that fewer resources need be expended to provide that level of service due to population density. If we assume that an identical proportion of the United States population lives within 150 miles of an ocean, that still leaves a population that is more than twice the total population of Canada in the interior. Reaching those people with the same standard of service will not cost as little as the Canadian system.
An even better parking meter
XUL is what makes it possible to have plugins on Firefox. Thus, it makes Firefox better than Chrome, Safari and other browsers.

It's not a dog compared to them; you are the dog. Stop calling Firefox a "dog" because it isn't, you son of dog.
I don't think I would trust a sample size of one to tell me anything about my body, especially when my body is nothing like the subject.
So the Peter Principle applies to blogs, too?

I agree, actually.
Every C programmer knows this stuff. (by which I mean _real_ c programmers.) This stupid article is for cock-sucking retards.

(today i'm in a bad mood and really feel like flaming every nice forum there is - because it alleviates my depression. usually i'm a nice guy on hn who talks civilly but forgive me for today - sorry!)
She comes off as a very jealous and spiteful person.

Perhaps, but beside the point - points #1-4 in that article are valid examples of Significant Douchebaggery (point #5 seems to have been thrown in just to round out the list).
agreed, this adds Zero value unless you feel like its cool to have a bunch of followers who cannot get followers any other way than this "scheme".

I would also imagine this is borderline TOS abuse.
Paramount Advantages of Door Hangers
How McDonald's Conquered France
SVN usability
The amount of energy we can usably harness from the sun is a lot less than is radiated to the earth. Its useful to drive at night and on cloudy days. People also demand similar performance from their future vehicles as they get now.

If you're interested in these sort of questions, I highly recommend the following book which I got a few days ago. I'm finding it both sobering and exciting:

http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/...
"Linux user interfaces have been catching up with Windows (if not Mac)" is a common misconception.

I love the tabbed file system views in Gnome. It's much more comfortable than the Finder. Windows Explorer too is simply terrible. I have been using Windows at work and Gnome at home and can't even begin to decribe all the ways Windows is completely broken from a usability standpoint. People tolerate it because they know nothing different and/or are unwilling to learn.

In many aspects, Gnome and KDE have already surpassed Windows and OSX.
I must say I totally agree with the author on this.

Abstractions should be small simple and effective.

(btw don't be offended by the user name; today i'm in a bad mood and really feel like flaming every nice forum there is - because it alleviates by depression ;-). usually i'm a nice guy on hn who talks civilly but forgive me for today; today's a bad day - sorry!)