skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, MS solution is the greatest one I've ever seen. Integrated email, calendaring, group based notifications, phone system, IM integration... it works great. You can even call your voicemail to get your emails read to you over the phone! (or schedule a meeting in a similar way, automatically putting it in your calendar)

There's one "but" - you have to go MS all the way. You cannot use those features without windows and their web ui is a complete disaster. That's one of the reasons it should never be used at any technical university IMHO. As soon as you touch anything MS, you're in the area where standards don't apply.
So when you say "Free netbooks," what you really mean is "'free' netbooks?"
Ever tried holistic digital detox instead of just dumping the TV set?
https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/digitaldetox
Having a television is quite strange (except for news):

It's like having amazon automatically sending you the (currently) most modern books, without having any real choice.

Why on earth should I do so? If I really like a movie, I'll simply buy a DVD, because I want to see it more than once.
You Think 'Free' is About the Price? It's not.
How can I take this seriously when it forgets to mention Omega? the pretties little thing with prototypes.

http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/Blaschek/Omega/_R...

Blaschek's book (one of the hard-cover light blue books from the Monographs of Theoretical Computer Science series) was an absolute delightful win.
Giving one away for signing up for FIOS too.
Depending on your definition of "tv" I may or may not have one. I do own a digital tuner and a projecter and they are technically hooked up but I only actually used it once to verify that it worked. I find the extra effort of turning on the projector and waiting for the bulb to warm stops me from idly using it.
I own a really nice 55" 1080p TV, cable, and a DVR. However, the last time I turned it on was 3 weeks ago to play though the force unleashed. As a teen I used to watch TV all the time, but I ended up not having a TV for ~2 years and found it freeing. I think breaking the cycle of boredom = time for TV has value. But, so does watching the Olympics in all it's HDTV goodness.
NPR claims some of them were erased: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1066370...
Yes. Though it would only be legally required for watching a live iPlayer stream. Not quite sure how the dudes in the vans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmdUcmLFkw) detect this though.
This actually makes sense, Google's new policy is to work on problems on a scale that no one else can. Too hot in the data center? Ah, just turn it off and redirect the traffic! :)
This blog post is just copied verbatim from: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2009/07/15/install-firefox-35-... - except the original has a better written introduction.
I think at each stage the vitriol has decreased as a function of the maturity of the solutions. FastCGI was desperately bad.
cough Unbreakable Linux cough
They are not free. In most cases you even pay more during the time you pay the fees from the contract that gets you the "free" netbook.

It's just a new name for credit.

You repay the netbook during your contract. German telecoms offer netbooks for 1 Euro all the time but in the end you pay more compared to paying right away for a netbook and then choosing the cheapest telecom.
Apple is moving from Cyrus to Dovecot with Snow Leopard Server.
On the social aspect where you don't get to know about people I had this effect when I returned to the UK after 15 years away. Since I had no idea who the new, local celebrities were I would find myself slightly alienated from conversations about people such as Jordan/Katie Price.
Getting on with the times?
Meta-Reframing
LOL. Great satire. "Often I am amazed at the pure Salvador Dahli-esque features of IE6. For years I have been trying to achieve the random div placements in any other browser and failed miserably."
You think that the worlds best minds are spent building a calendar?
Steve Ballmer proves his ticker is fine
i like neither, i prefer the 'nipple' (ibm and fujitsu laptops). touchpads are nice too.

i got physical pains from reaching the mouse
You'd be surprised at how much home-grown stuff we run around here (I'm a grad student at MIT). All of the school-owned computers still run Athena OS, everyone uses Kerberos, emacs still rules the day..I once saw a secretary use the `finger` command to look up a phone number and couldn't believe it.

The problem is all the home-grown stuff is inevitably pretty low-level compared to today's solutions. Sure, there are plenty of hackers around to build OSS replacements for all our needs, but these hackers are students and professors: their main job is to do research, not implement enterprise software.

So I think the decision to move to outlook was probably based on the simple fact that it offers a lot of nice features that we don't currently have.
As loathe as I am to admit it (and I still won't recommend or adminster it) Exchange is reasonably decent for the end user. You need to keep a sacrificial Windows install/VM for the rare cases you need an Outlook-specific feature but most of the daily functionality is accessible from other clients.

Between Thunderbird and a Blackberry I only really dip into Exchange to set new filters anymore.
There are only three spatial dimensions, and time.

If you are going to play tricks using color, you may as well use flavors and odors for a sixth dimension visualization (and any other property you may think of for further extending dimensions).

I call bullshit.
The word free sure gets abused. Read Virgin's ad: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/specialoffers/netbook.h.... To get a netbook you have to spend at least $1600 on a service contract.
I tend to agree. I came from an Exchange background, and went all around trying different alternatives. There's nothing out there that quite compares.

I'm currently using Zimbra, and it is good enough, but it just isn't as nice. And "good enough" isn't really good enough. Whoever wants to topple Exchange is going to have to do better than this "me too" crap.

How about actually integrating the contacts, tasks, schedules, and email in some intelligent way?
Well the blog includes the original author. Only the steps are copied here, not everything.
My TV was broken for about 4 months this spring and it was great; didn't miss it one bit.

Now that it's back, I find myself watching ~1.5 hours a night again. I should just throw the thing out the window.
Sending out 300M+ spam messages to do research ? That's a little over the top isn't it ?
Not having a TV when you have kids is borderline abuse IMHO.

For me, having a TV at home when I was a kid was borderline abuse. I've considered it the idiot box for as long as I can remember myself, which would be since about three years old.

When I first moved away from my parents to live with my then-GF, she kinda wanted a TV but I firmly said no.

I've never had my own TV and never will.

I can't stand being in the same room with a running TV. I always ask to mute it at least; if that isn't possible, I leave the room or cover my ears. The issue isn't the noise; it's those horrible fake intonations that everyone uses on TV.
If it was Sendmail, maybe. But not Cyrus IMAP.

(for the uninitiated; read the "Internet Mail" chapter of Unix Hater's Handbook for MIT admins struggling with Sendmail, circa 1990 ;-)
modding me down doesn't make it false

If you remember SCO made exactly the same threat, and though it didn't work out that way, it is still a legal recourse where the infringer is outside of jurisdiction but the customers aren't
Link to actual paper: http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/Tyler/turingfinal.pdf
It's the cheap kind ($5 or $10) you can get at sport outlet stores or even large super markets. They have a TPR (rubber) outsole and an EVA (foam) insole (which I removed). The upper part made from nylon mesh and some thin neoprene.

But going barefoot allows my feet and toes to flex freely and feel the surface. I am able to use parts of my feet and legs that used to be constrained by my running shoes (most notably my arches and calves). Because of this, my running gait has changed a lot. After years of pounding the pavement (striking heel-first) I am able to run smooth and easy, and it feels great.

Thanks to this new running style, there is hardly any wear to the soles. I think they will last around 500 miles. After that, I'll just spend $10 on a new pair.
Come now. Is the internet really all that much better for people? seriously?

You could easily call the internet the 'idiot net'. People under the delusion that their opinion matters, mindlessly posting inane useless comments like this one.

Many of the biggest sites out there serve no real use other than to waste peoples time.
Would you also let know, which machine it is, if _someone else_ mails you.
Group health care plans (what your employer gives you) are given largely without consideration for the health of the individuals involved. Basic tests, like making sure you don't have a major heart problem and pee tests are involved but thats it. Friends of mine who have a business with only 3 employees listed me as one of their employees to get the number up to four. Some how I was registered whilst living in another country.

And I believe there are already laws on the books about pre-existing conditions (assuming you have continuous coverage)
20 Intermediate Haskell Exercises
My version:

- wget http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefo...

- make && sudo make install

- change symlink at /usr/bin/firefox to point to new binary
– plug & play Wireless data cards, easy Internet on go
Traveling through America then use the Cellhire American Data Card rental service. With full 3G or GPRS broadband high speed Internet access.
Make him sweat for 24 hours before giving any clue, so other hackers can put their mad skillz to test.

If they break in that wouldn't be your fault.
I'd never heard of Omega - it looks like it combines prototypes with optional static typing. I ordered the book, looks very interesting. Thanks!

It doesn't mention Lua, either, and Lua is used a lot in e.g. the game industry. It does mention Javascript, albeit as an afterthought.

Also, Slate: (http://slatelanguage.org/) (Never used it, though.)

I'm glad to see mainstream interest in prototype-based OO building.
Why not use Threads and communicate via a flag or callback?
Say there are 3 million chrome users. 700 KB * 3 million = 2.1TB. That is quite a lot of bandwidth. They are not trying to reduce the costs. They are trying to minimize the time it will take to push an update to all users.

If they set the time interval of update check to 1 hour, then they have 1 hour to push out this data. If they can reduce the data by 10 times, they can schedule the update check more aggressively.
Will the updates work in this case ?
None of the above, I guess: I have a TV, but it's really acting as a monitor hooked up to a PC so I can watch shows online on-demand (using hulu or pbs.org or whatever)
And not for Turkey..
Hey it is me, Michael Arrington.

Please tell me which machine it is, send info to:

michaelarrington@mailinator.com

Thanks!
Or you could be me and work close to full time the entire time you are in university so you aren't in ridiculous debt when you leave.
(that being said, I would have done much much better in my undergrad if I hadn't of done that)
When is that coming back online?
Have you seen what's been coming out of MIT Press in the last 8 years? They went full on pop-psych with their "internet and society" type publications. I have seen books on gamer anthropology, virtual currency and the "web mind" sort of stuff coming out of MIT Press. A weird cross between Wired and Kuro5hin. They want to create "leaders" and "visionaries", i.e. people who make it to business magazine covers dressed in geek-chic lab-coats, holding microscopes and calculators, while in reality, running a fully outsourced bio-startup out of Manhattan :-D
http://www.80legs.com/ - jdrock, founder, is around here on HN
The US is typically 2-3 years behind when it comes to this sort of thing...
You think I don't know Michael Arrington's email address, or how to verify that it's really him?
we just had a debate on this a week or two ago on HN. the eternal optimism of a hacker is usually a sign of inexperience, imo.

so sure, a few MIT students could "roll their own" in 12-18+ months. It likely still won't be as feature complete nor user friendly, and they spent 25% of their university time re-inventing the wheel.
Boy, some people really don't like Michael Arrington.
Some of the processes they use at Manning seem a bit archaic. To send a document to multiple people for review, it's vastly more efficient to use Adobe Acrobat to convert it to the the version of PDF that's enabled for markup using just the free Adobe Reader. You can then put the document on a website or Acrobat.com where everyone is looking at the same instance of the document and, most importantly, everyone can see the previous comments. That way, if one review says something dumb, another reviewer is likely to pick up on it. You can then bring all the comments back into a Word file.
I'm wary of uploading health data (however innocuous (weight) to the web). It's only the beginning; the web-connected eScale reminds me of these hypothetical "Huggies Smart Diapers":

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/images/found.jpg

Also, stumbled across this excellent archive of Wired's previous "Artifacts from the Future"

http://www.metafilter.com/73510/Artifacts-from-the-Future
Honestly, I know the reply to this has a valid point about "idiot net", but I feel the same way as you.

Except I grew up with the TV always on, even if no one was watching it, it was running, when I moved out, I avoided cable and TV for a while, too busy really. Now when I visit my parents or my brothers, it drives me up the wall that the TV has to constantly be running.
Unfortunately, it's more like spitting in the ocean. As of 2007, the worldwide spam estimate was about 100B messages per day.
If you are using a language that is amenable to it, you can refactor at will and the IDE will verify its correctness.

Many people use unit tests as a crutch for a lack of strong typing.
That was my reaction. But now I know (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_%28Katie_Price%29) Don't click that link unless you really want to know, some things can't be unlearnt.
"- There's a lot of smalltalk I can't engage in, you might not notice but there's a lot of references to TV personalities in daily interaction with people."

Heh, I know exactly how you feel. Normally I'm fine with being left out of those conversations though.

"- When I watch television somewhere I instantly think how much facade and how little information the medium contains. This has gotten worse over the years."

This is also spot on, besides it feeling like a facade, it also is very very boring.
I use Yahoo Groups email lists every day. They have been enormously helpful in strengthening and building the parent networks formed through the statewide nonprofit organization of which I am now president. I was brought on the state board of directors of the nonprofit in 2003 largely because I knew how to apply Yahoo Groups technology to build cohesion in the organization and its chapters.
No. 2 Years back When I ended up in a Room Share where there was no TV, It was suffocating for me, the TV addict. But then something nice happened. I started reading more books, Going out more, Went to bed early, Had more time in general. So When I moved to a flat, I decided No TV. And it worked out nicely.

But guess what, I am slowly turning into an internet addict now :). Now I had to start going to the swimming pool to avoid being a couch potato with my Laptop !.

With TV, there is always one more channel to check before you turn it off. With the net, it's one more link to check out !!.
Footprint webapps
I'm looking for (carbon) footprint webapps. Anybody seen some inspiring my-carbon-footprint calculating webapps?
You're not alone, but you're likely in the minority. They've built up a nice little data ecosystem, and I for one love Yahoo Sports. The journalism is so-so, but being able to get a player's Game Log/other stats quickly is something I value, and it seems like all of the other sports sites have conspired to make sports data load slowly as all hell. It's gotten to the point where now I'm more likely to search "clinton portis yahoo" than the player name alone. It's also nice that they treat the NHL as one of the major sports (which it is).
I run around Boston on sidewalks and in the road and it doesn't tear up your feet too bad. The first few times I had a couple of blisters but lately I've been fine.
Sure he might have a sincere message in the end, but the way in which it is presented gives the impression that the guy is a 5 year old throwing a tantrum. It's not the curse words that bother me, it's the childishness and unprofessional way that he presents his arguments.
Why can't I just visit firefox.com, have it detect my OS, and provide a dpkg to install?

Firefox seems to dedicate less resources to Linux than OS X and Windows. That may be in keeping with their market share, but its certainly not doing their fellow Open Source brethren any favors.
Totally Agree. It's Just another level of idiotisam. 90% of the time is wasted on the Net.
Human Interfaces
WOW. I'm finding this hard to believe. So the MacBook Pro 13" doesn't have an 8bit display, that's a little lame, we agree. But, here's the problem. You were in an Apple store and used the laptop and didn't notice. Then you took the laptop home and somehow 'found out' it doesn't support the millions of colors you apparently need (I'm no designer so I have no appreciation for this)... So... go back to the store and do the same 'check' you did for this laptop on a 15" model -- if it passes, problem solved, if not... well, maybe you should just do your designing on your 30" cinema which you now have working after receiving a $70 discount on the adapter (granted a $70 discount - the pain involved in not having it for a week or whatever). /rant
StackOverflow does some pretty clever things like using JavaScript to dim or hilight questions on the front page based on the user's Ignored or Interested tags, instead of generating a unique set of front page items HTML for every user.
Anyone else only watch cartoons?
SandyAndSue.com
Amazing new css and 3d features
In that case you will need to stay away from all laptop manufacturers that use LG-Phillips panels.
Same here, I alternated between being a lifeguard and being a freelance coder and technical writer. Did a bit of studying in my free time...

But you can earn money anytime, I shouldn't have been so impatient.
Note that people who feel smug about not owning a TV (not saying that you are in this group, but it does exist) are more likely to cast a vote here, skewing the results.

The results so far are almost 60/40, which I find intriguing from a personal point of view because I've never known a single person in real life who didn't own a TV - geeks and otherwise.. correlating somewhat with the "official" figures of 98-99% penetration.
Why not? They could make a hell of a calendar.
The question is whether they will be left with enough business to stay alive. I'm positive their bread and butter is windows issues. Why would anyone go see the Geek Squad with a Windows issue when they can go see "the Microsoft guy"?
Please note "especially on user-facing interfaces" above. The Pre identifying itself as an iPod in a protocol is not an issue. The problem is that doing so ultimately advertises to the user that the Pre is an iPod via dialogs, icons, and other interface verbiage.

If for Internet Explorer to ape Mozilla/4.0 compatibility, it had to momentarily change its name, icon, and all user-facing interfaces to match Firefox so that one could not distinguish between an actual instance of Firefox and the "IE-in-fox's-clothing", you can bet that the Mozilla foundation would be peeved. Aside from legal considerations, what if IE-with-firefox-dress crashed all the time and people wrongfully blamed Firefox for this sorry state of affairs?
C'mon guys, duplicating duplicates? Really? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542177 broken submission filters + an influx of noobs = :( user
Will Twitter Sue TechCrunch?
The Nature of Failure Modes
A company giving positive reviews as non-existent customers on consumer products for money is fraud. I worked as a reviewer and I worked hard to be honest and genuine, this kind of BS that goes on on amazon.com and places is insulting to all reviewers because generally you work very hard and don't get nearly enough pay.

Oh BTW your house is at risk with virtually any company you start until you get limited liability, so I don't really get what point you're trying to make. Almost anyone can start an ULC for the very reason that if you fail and get hugely in debt (like a large amount of companies do) then the bank still gets its money. You either need to have the money to cover your expenses up front, or you risk losing your home.

My father has run a business all his life, but all the important stuff was always in my mothers name and never joint so if he ever had a problem the house and cars weren't going to disappear without a major fight.
I used to watch a lot of TV. Then I got an AppleTV. This combined with Boxee meant that for about a year I only watched what I wanted to watch when I wanted to watch it. My wife didn't really like this so much but our digibox died recently (I'm in the UK) so we're back to 4 channels + a rather poor reception of channel 5. The quality of the shows (if quality is the term you'd use) is so abysmal that I can't be bothered putting it on.

Recently we've been listening to music in the evenings instead or watching content on the AppleTV, it's much better and we talk more.
That's extremely interesting. Thank you!

The funny thing is while coding that stuff the bigger problems were financial and the enormous amount of cruft that is the web. The actual search engine wasn't that hard at all.
Xinjiang Game Theory
what is the trend in the audience sizes of those groups like ?
HEY HN: Screw You
I posted a really good article that no one seemed to even look at. How often does this happen you guys?
Social networking site for researchers: myexperiment.org
And here's a link to the actual site, if you want to explore: http://www.myexperiment.org/
I review your site and theirs. Functionality is different. I was looking into their contract and project management feature. It looks pretty good. I dont see that as a feature for ur app.
The Web has made me a better programmer, a better musician, a better debater, gave me a better understanding of mathematics, kept my English skills from rusting, and a lot more. Wikipedia or the instructional videos on YouTube are miles above TV in usefulness. Also, TV doesn't enable me to talk with intelligent people across the ocean.

Would you exchange the Web for a TV with 1000 channels?
Retrieving Image Information using Sanselan
How often would anyone who does something really unusual (and not having a TV is still highly unusual) tell you they do?

Were it not for cable, I would probably have no TV here except, perhaps, one to plug the computer in to watch a movie.
I think the @mailinator was a tip off.
Plenty, but why is that a problem. HN is voluntary last I checked, nobody has to look at your really good article.

What I think is 'good' does not have to be what other people here think is good. Think of HN as a list of suggestions for possible discussion with 0 guarantee of that discussion actually taking place, no matter how good your submission.

Also, you keep submitting stuff from 'paulmidler.com', maybe you've been identified as a spammer or something like that ?
I think it's a troll - the guys last submission was 43 days ago (or there was a meta discussion 10 days ago).

Unless it got killed (do they show in submissions?)

EDIT: oh ok, yeh they were killed. He was posting links from paulmidler.com.