skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Google now, but I used to use a custom-made start page. It had:

* an auto-focus search bar linked to Google
* a bunch of links to my most-visited sites
* the current snapshot from one of my university's webcams
(which will auto-refresh if you hovered your mouse on it)
* a little area for a note to myself that I could edit with a password

You can see the page at http://mrzwolinski.com/start/ if you're curious.
http://watrcoolr.us/ -- one of epi0Bauqu's projects. I think the UI is very appealing to those of us who prefer to focus on exactly one thing at a time. And hate clutter. And like to use the keyboard.
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How about remote mounting a filesystem using sshfs. I have found this is a big problem on SL. The MacFUSE beta allows it to work at all, but performance can be terrible. I'm trying ExpandDrive now, but it's $49 and performance could still be better.
It's not about how much you spend. It's the result you achieve.

It seems the architecture of Windows and its backward compatibility are a growing burden on Microsoft's shoulders.

The sad truth in software business is that you don't have to make your product robust enough to last forever, just long enough for you to pocket your bonus and retire.

I also have a problem with the idea that security bugs are not ordinary bugs. Bugs are parts of the program that don't do what should be done, be it about crashing, corrupting data or handing over the keys to your kingdom, they are still bugs and should be detected and corrected.
If this is the direction old media should go, I'm all for it. Awesome, informative, interactive and provoking.
Hey Christopher Smart, Stop Making Linux Magazine Look Bad
Reminds me a little of Willie Wonka's musical lock.
Homepage????
Wait people shut down their browsers? like, ever?

I haven't seen the homepage in months, I think it's still that default "welcome to Ubuntu" page but I really have no clue.
Why is this depressing?

This is how the world works right now. If your an entrepreneur you should want to make it better and earn a living (or a 100 livelihoods) from this situation.

I've seen lots of businesses which focus on allowing the rich to make better use of their time.
1. A service which looks for all the new restraunts in NYC and gets each user a booking to such openings.
2. Social network for high networth individuals.
3. A "linkedin" for CEOs and COOs. (A friend works for one of these and he makes a ton of money just as a salesperson).

I personally dont think I could be passionate about such a business but I've seen that people who have the means to pay usually are more likely to pay (at least Americans are).
I was being a bit facetious in listing just Ive, but I don't think it's a stretch to say that his industrial design department has been that important to Apple's success. Most notably, the iPod is almost certainly the product that gave Apple the financial stability to develop OS X into what it is today, and to undertake the Intel transition that enabled them to take over the high-end computer market. If the iPod had been only slightly better than the other mp3 players of the time, Apple probably wouldn't have been able to make much profit off it or the iTunes Media Store.
Note that before he could ever be charged, he checked a box next to text (that even in the video) showed that there was a monthly fee. I think these "deals" are dirty, but there is some user input involved.
Seconded. In all likelihood, when I'm open my browser I'm going to one of these 8 so this just makes sense for me.
I recommend FF 2.x. You'll be restarting it at a vigorous pace then. But at least the address bar and tabs aren't completely ruined.
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I think since Interface Builder had been around for many years by the time the article was written, we can write this one off as author ignorance rather than give him the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, Canonical's own release notes for my netbook actually recommended _not_ upgrading because of regressions.

I did however upgrade my desktop just fine and I _love_ it!
My Backpackit.com Inbox. I've been implementing a bit of GTD task management in my life and having this page pop-up first thing (and stay up all day) has been very helpful.
I think it's better suited for rooms inside the house/apartment rather than the main entrance, for the reasons you stated. This would kick a%$ in dorm rooms.
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I wish Arrington had enough credibility so that I could stand behind him on this without second thought. Having been burned by him in the last.fm case (still no apology), my second thought while reading this was "arrington starting drama again". The first was of course "this is excellent journalism". I wish I didn't have to be conflicted in such a seemingly clear-cut case.
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"It’s easy to “design” when you’re unencumbered by things like metrics, creative direction, business acumen, sales experience, actual functionality, enterprise scale, or any thought about how a site with millions of page views and users has to function."

Wait... what? None of this makes much sense at all.

"Metrics"? Metrics for what? A metric is just a way of measuring things. What are we measuring? Pixels? Number of visitors? Number of bytes transferred?

"Creative direction"? Again, what does that mean, exactly? It's an airline website. It's supposed to be elegant and functional, not a work of postmodernist art.

"Business acumen"? Business = getting people to pay you, and people will be more inclined to pay you, all other things being equal, if your website is better designed. Is there some reason why a website redesign would cause AA to lose money? The cost of designing a website is trivial, in comparison to AA's annual budget of $22,935,000,000.

"Sales experience"? "Sales" usually means selling things to people in person, or over the phone, which is a very different business from designing a website to sell people things (ask anyone who's done both).

"Actual functionality" is the only legitimate criticism here. It's quite a bit harder to make a website that actually works than to draw it.

"Enterprise scale" is a myth. Justin.TV, according to their website, currently has 29 employees (including the founders). Justin.TV's Alexa rank is #222. American Airlines has 85,500 employees, and their website is less popular (rank #1,465), and almost certainly requires less bandwidth and storage space to boot.

I won't comment on whether the guy is or isn't a jerk, but the ability to spit out a long list of fancy words ("metrics"? Come on) does not a legitimate criticism make.
Can Amazon's PayPhrase Combine Convenience with Security?
What? You make a buggy software product someone finds a way to exploit automatically and when your customers come calling asking for help to repair their systems, suddenly, you are not to be blamed? Not even a little? How so?

Let's move the example from software to aerospace.

Someone builds planes that, when an engine inhales a bird, explode, killing all passengers and crew. They do not know the problem exists and did as little testing as required by regulations. Knowing the problem, a kid decides to release pigeons in the path of the plane, creating a quite spectacular accident. Who will you blame? Just the kid, just the manufacturer or both?

Until executive bonuses get cut, you will see no improvement over there. Unfortunately, lots of bonuses get calculated on limited scopes and don't reflect the complete lifetime of a product. This way, it's easy to close sales, pocket huge bonuses right now, get promoted, and to let the support cost bomb explode in the hands of your successor while you capitalize on your success and head up the corporate ladder.

If you look them closely, big corporations are rarely more intelligent than a sponge or a coral reef.
This would be very useful for WoW.
It's interesting to compare the results of the polls after they stabilise. I'm not sure if it fully accounts for selection bias, but it seems to be a better basis for comparison.

In terms of show stopping problems, Karmic is currently about the same as Jaunty with about 32% of people reporting they couldn't work around their issues, while for Intrepid it was 45%.

I can imagine there's selection bias at that level as well - the people who can't work around problems for one release aren't going to be involved in the poll for the next release.

Anecdotally, everyone that I've convinced to try Ubuntu has been badly burnt by upgrade issues - only my girlfriend has continued to use it since I do the upgrades for her. I'm sticking with it as I seem to be able to workaround or fix anything that comes up, although it feels like I'm rolling dice everytime.
localhost + a HEADER.HTML that reads '<h1>Do work!</h1>'
Quick, Patent It
Wow, thank you so much for that comment. I've been so annoyed with how long it was taking to open a new tab in Safari because of the 3D eye candy top sites thing, but changing it to a blank page has made it infinitely faster.
Hi mx12,
Thanks for trying out the app. It would be great if you send the log file to my mail id pk@roorky.com. Also if you can paste some of the messages from /var/log/system.log related to app it can be of great help to us. Thanks in advance.
Very good point. I had forgotten my timeline, IB was clearly a part of NeXt which had been recently acquired.
"Fighting the compiler" doesn't necessarily mean type errors. It could mean that you have to warp your design to fit the constraints of a language, often making much more extensive changes to your program than you would otherwise would've had to.

Though a lot of my complaints about Haskell's type system could be alleviated with a good integrated refactoring tool. If I had one-command operations to:

a.) Convert a plain function to a monadic one

b.) Change the signature and stacking order of a large stack of monadic transformers

c.) Add a new alternative to an algebraic data type, and track down and fix all functions that use it.

d.) Add a new parameter, at an arbitrary position, to a function.

e.) Change a straight return value to a Maybe.

f.) Add a new field to a record or tuple type.

Then I'd find Haskell's type system much less oppressive. What's the status of Leksah these days?
What requires that your hands be "square to the keys"? I'm typing now and my fingers are a angle relative to the orientation of the square keys, yet that doesn't stand in the way of my typing. Yes, my smaller fingers are curled slightly more than my index and middle finger but that's not a huge insult to my physiognomy. The human body is actually pretty flexible but moreover, since our fingers are different lengths, it's hard to say there is a "perfect" place on the keyboard for them. Of course, for true alignment, one would want to have one's hand's palm upward but that's not going to happen with current input devices so compromises of one sort or another are necessary.
Absolutely. Thinking is overrated; in the absence of new data and additional experience, you end up rehashing the same decisions you thought about 20 minutes ago.
Transitive Closures for Non-Mathematicians (Part I)
That's weird... It worked here flawlessly. I even did an upgrade over from last release and not with a fresh reinstall...

The worse that happened is that it disabled my 3rd party repos (Skype, VirtualBox) - that is after warning me it would.
Umm, if anyone is troubled its Dell. I have tried ordering servers, monitors and UPSs from them multiple times this month and their website failed. I was able to place an order with them today via the phone, but it took over and hour and had to repeat all of the data they already had on my online account.
heroku is sweet. You can do a lot for free there if you don't need much database space and all your requests are quick (or you can use http caching effectively).
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http://en.wikipedia.org

Has "Featured article", "In the news", "Did you know...", and "On this day...". It's very awesome.
Plus: there are no reports of Ubuntu installs like iPods ;-)

It's also easier to patch software, although it's harder to make it run on hardware someone else designed and who will not tell you anything about how it works. Apple doesn't have this problem either: the least they can do is OSX folks pointing fingers to Macintosh hardware designers.

But I have to admit Apple hardware has the good looks on its side.
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Bad credit personal loans - Fortunately there are many modern lenders that are offering personal loans for people with bad credit and this means that you can have access to a loan no matter what your credit history is like.
I'd say Starcraft won't be against it either.
Like I said, they have a dozen important Windows clients: Acer, Lenovo, HP, Dell, IBM and a couple others. As long as those are happy, MS execs are making their bonuses and everything is right.

As for a reputation... Well... There is a PHB graduated every minute.
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Me too. Been that way for years.

Actually what I typically do when I open Firefox is open a folder called "Morning" and at the bottom select "Open All in Tabs". That way I see everything I care about (HN included).
But if you speak professionally, you wouldn't have to write a new speech every time. Just reuse most or portions of other speeches to cut down on prep time.
I picked mine up Friday, and I have to say it is amazing. The physical keyboard takes a bit of getting used to (the trick is to use the flat part of the tip of your thumbs and to be confident). The navigation feature of Google maps is also very useful. When you get close to your destination, it automatically jumps into street view facing the side of the road corresponding to your destination address.

For another $3/mo, you get visual voicemail which is a nice first for Verizon. I've been using a Blackberry Pearl and iPod Touch for the past couple years as my mobile solution and was happy overall, but this is much better.

Sure, maybe the iPhone is a bit better due to its app selection, but that doesn't even come close to the benefits of Verizon's network in my situation.

Bottom line: if you're on Verizon and looking for a better phone, get it. If you're simply deciding between an iPhone and a Droid, the hardware/software of the two are close enough that you can look at other factors (like network coverage) to make your decision.
I would guess it is a combination of too much other work, too much legacy, and no one really caring about the aesthetics.

Marketing guys pressuring devs for new features. Enough late nights and you just stop caring about those details. Unless you have an ethos of good design like Apple.
Yes, but that was only the first one. If it had stopped after him giving the first site his cell phone number, and if he would have then been redirected back to the game and credited with his coins, it would simply be a bad offer, but not a particularly dirty one. You would pay thirty bucks for a random number between 100-144, and your virtual coins.

My guess is that they made sure to clean up the first service so that it looks legit, and you only discover that it's a scam if you actually go through with it, and if you do, they're just piling on the cash-grabs. I cannot imagine that any of the following services are aware that the user came from a game and that some virtual currency should be credited back.

So the results of this story is that they're going to clean up the second set of services so it looks legit when you're two steps removed, and then pile on the cash-grabs, hoping no-one digs that deep.

It is also really important to remember that the biggest beneficiaries of these scams are the mobile networks themselves. If you've ever worked with mobile payments you know that they always take more than half of the money. Payout rates average at 45% throughout the world. Compare that to other payment methods such as PayPal which charges 6%, or roll your own solution and get down to 3%.

It's a cash machine for all the networks, they have no liability, almost no costs for the transactions, and they still get the lion's share of the money, so they have absolutely no incentive to stop the scammers.

So attacking this problem only from the Facebook side is probably not as effective as if you could force the networks to get rid of the scammers, but I have no hope of that ever happening, all the money they're making on it can buy a lot of lobbying to keep that money rolling.
The article points this out. But it also points out (using the Ubuntu release notes) that there are quite a few regressions as well.

In other words, there is a lack of professionalism and polish associated with Ubuntu releases. Maybe they're code-freezing too late in each cycle to be able to stabilize everything in time for the release?
When I'm rushed, I don't invent more code. If a slider already existed, wouldn't you just reuse that?
Ruby coding because hey, Ruby is slow anyway

This logic is absolutely backwards.
Gembel
Takes me 3 minutes to run our full test suite, takes some of my colleagues > 10 minutes.

Importing a dump of our production DB takes me only 4 hours, takes them 10.
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For extra irony, the post is also available from Bing`s cache:

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I'll add another feature that Python tends toward standardization and batteries included rather than modules. With the right modules, you can probably make Java look like Python, but that's not the point... to me at least. I'm explicitly talking about opinion here. I hope it's ok for me to have a different opinion.
I'm not on Snow Leopard because I don't have a whole day to waste rebuilding all my unix shit. Nothing wrong with Leopard. I'm going to wait til I get a new machine, then attempt to go the Homebrew path and build all my stuff in ~. That'll be worth the effort where upgrading today would definitely not be.
You don't need "extensive experience with parsers" to do what the OP is describing. Lex and yacc (and their moral equivalents in other languages) were written precisely so that a programmer of ordinary skill could write a parser and feel reasonably confident that it would behave properly.

I've done this kind of thing more than once, even back when I was fairly junior as a programmer.
I stopped seeing the "scam" ads on Mafia Wars as soon as Zynga said they were gone and still don't see them.

But these ads are everywhere online. I still don't get the selective outrage against FB apps. I'm not defending the ads, but I scratch my head about the selection of this venue for advertising them in particular. I mentioned it before and maybe I'll let it drop now, but people running rebills and very questionable ads are on Google sponsored results right now. Want some diet pills? http://www.google.com/search?q=acai+berry
The point isn't the deals, it's the obvious shadiness of the whole thing and the awareness by the perpetrators that it is shady because they are showing one thing to one group and another thing to another group.
The Firefox distinction between start page and home page is one of the coolest things about the browser (maybe other browsers have it too, I've never bothered to check). I have Gmail has my homepage but blank page on startup. Hitting Alt+Home takes practically no time, and I'd rather spend the time myself when I want to then have to pay the time every time I start my browser whether I want to go to my mail or not.
about:blank

firefox with tabkit and when I open a new window it is likely I am starting a new thread of thought

^n new window with focus in url bar no time for loading or change of focus I want to get started

readline style emacs bindings for editing in the url is a must for me

a good set of quick searches helps

- g http://google.com/search?q=%s
- gau http://google.com.au/search?hl=en&meta=cr%3DcountryAU&q=%s
- wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
- shn http://searchyc.com/%s
- etc ...

Using the keyword/quick search feature I find the url bar becomes a kind of command line interface to the internet with a series of 1-3 char commands that can get me where I need to go.
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Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating
I'm thinking different parts might be owned by different teams, or they were written by the same team, but over a long period of time. We have a lot of UI issues like this, in a 100 person company. I imagine the bureaucracy of a place like Adobe could be hard to move.
Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
I wouldn't put it past Zynga to do something like this on purpose, but we can't assume that was their intent. They could have been doing A/B tests and put Arrington and his friend into different buckets. IIRC, Zynga are big on A/B testing.
One of the things I hate most about Internet Explorer is when I open a new tab, alt-D to the address bar, and start typing.

Meanwhile, IE is busy doing some of that large amounts of nothing that big programs like to do, and loading the homepage.

When it finishes, it refreshes the address bar all over what I was typing.

When I use about:blank, this doesn't happen.
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it seems to me that if the Higgs is offended about being observed and quantum-destroys the universes it is produced in

You seem to be conflating the "Higgs production does something funny to suppress the amplitude of possible histories leading to the event" hypothesis with the "LHC destroys the world with black holes/stable strangelets/vacuum energy state change/etc., so only futures with a broken LHC have humans around to observe" hypothesis. The net result is similar but the mechanism is different (unless it's equivalent in some weird quantum way--I don't pretend to be an expert on this stuff).

In either case, if each event has a chance of occurring during a particle collision, there must be some finite number of collisions beyond which some event such as "a fragment of Boltzmann Bread[0] appears in a critical component of the LHC" becomes more likely than "no world-ending event occurring in X collisions".

In particular, there's not a need for the universe to anthropomorphically "reach across" an extended range of time; under MWI assumptions, all the hypothetical LHC-stopping coincidences will happen anyway in some world of arbitrarily small likelihood, but if the LHC is unexpectedly omnicidal, only those unlikely universes will have future observers to look back and marvel at how strange it is.

[0] Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
So IQ is based on emotions? That doesn't sound right.
> In other words, there is a lack of professionalism and polish associated with Ubuntu releases.

I agree. I think they should make their releases less frequent, e.g. move to a 2 year relase cycle. I have zero interest in fiddling with a working computer setup every six months in order to get the latest goodies.
Better still, just have the LTS releases.
Haha, why stop there! Develop a way to cook without food or utensils. Invent a way to paint without paint or canvas. Write without vowels or consonants.
I haven't tried this one but I use GitX mostly for when I'm doing code reviews or want to quickly scroll through a project history and check a random commit. The rest of the time it's the shell tools.
Windows 7 Sales Outrun Vista’s by 234%
Do you really think Ive is that important? I'm a designer and love Apple's ID, but I think it is over rated as a success factor. The iPod gets credit for design, but it is really product management, more than ID, that accounts for the success IMO.

You could make a case that the revolutionary aesthetics of the first iMac helped put Apple back on the winning track with free media and general excitement, but is it more important than "Think Differnet?"