skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone uses something other, like TextPad?
Did you try http://www.google.com/linux

?

Although I alternate search engines regularly, I do think the way Google indexes for specialized searches is pretty smart.
Augmented reality to alter how we see the world
I didn't see it mentioned in the thread, so here's coffee's HN equivalent:

http://coffeegeek.com/forums
Right!
So most unmarried founders are not really thinking marriage, but girlfriend. Or rooommate.
I use a 2-column layout on a 30" Apple Cinema display. Each of the columns has a 4:5 (8:10) aspect ratio, which is actually excellent for programming. If you did this on the new iMac, you'd get 2x 8:9, which is still pretty good. You soon don't want to miss the high number of vertical pixels.

What puts me off is the reflective finish. I can live with it on a 13" MacBook, but I'd find it impossible on that sort of size, where you're practically guaranteed to get a light source into view. Oh, and the fact that the HDD isn't user serviceable. Two hard drive bays would be nice, too, considering there's no eSATA or ExpressCard.
Message: Even Jobs can come up with ideas that suck.

And the link to the patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0265214.html
I'll disagree. DropBox is somewhat slick, but has embarrassing flaws. They have some way to go.
So I guess they did it right!
vldtr is now a couple of months old. Google has about 22 pages in their index, Bing 8.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Avldt...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Avldtr.com

As long as the Google has the most up to date index there is no good alternative for me.

You mention trying Yahoo. Did it give you better results?
Legacy software prevents this from happening.
Ubuntu pre-dates netbooks by quite a few years. And, sure, a "plain" software distribution will always play catchup to an integrated hw/sw bundle in terms of ease of installation.
A 32" 1080p HDTV is about $500-$700 at the moment depending on the brand.

£800 for the Samsung one I was talking about, which is ~$1300, plus a couple of hundred for a DVD player / HD recorder and the base 27" iMac at £1350 is 30% more not 3x more.
Small-town businesses usually do use Windows, except where they're hoping their ancient DOS solution doesn't die.
This would make sense to me if it was Microsoft, I could absolutely see Windows 8 "Netbook Edition" (Maybe Windows 9 or 10 when there's more ubiquitous internet) to be given away for free and supported by advertising. However this is so "not apple", that it makes very little sense.

Also important to point out that the title is quite misleading, filing a patent is not equal to "plans".

Edit: formatting + grammar.
For point 2, you can set a given window (or the layout for the current screen) to floating, which is the only behavior available in many conventional WMs. Some programs (most notably, the gimp) are very annoying to use in a tiled layout, so this is an easy way to accommodate them.
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My 24'' monitor from Dell is great, it was not very expensive, and it has served me well for years now. I think you generalize too much (also, never buy from the consumer section). My X1 from Dell is also great, I love it much more than my generic MacBook.
Remember its a survivor that said that. The ones that got squashed dead by competition aren't in the conversation.
It's the classic start-up dynamic: you might have money and a vision, but if you can't pull off the execution, you loose.

It seems that RH somewhere along the way decided that it's OK that you need a competent IT-guy around to get the software running correctly.
This is it. I think I am converting to a Mac. The last reason I didn't was because there's a common perception that they're priced too high. Unless this is a misprint, that time is over.
I would guess the real reason is mentioned at the end: there really is not much of a point in buying a desktop PC anymore (unless you are a hardcore gamer). It makes much more sense to buy a notebook and attach it to an external monitor when working at home.

Also prices for flatscreens are dropping all the time. If the Dell 30'' also has the special panel, and only is lacking in some other specs, maybe enhancing those other specs is not as expensive as adding the better panel type (whether they are important or not is another matter - if you WANT to spend a lot of money, you can always find a reason, like "this audio system does not have gold coated cables" or whatever).

In any case this makes me hope for a price drop of the 30'' Dell displays...
Does anyone know why does `ldd` use the loader? Only to resolve the names? It seems that you can get the basic names from objdump too (dynamic section / `NEEDED` symbols)

It seems that it's easy to "secure" this bug... if you have more caps than the owner of the loader, warn that you need a special flag and exit. Selinux and similar might make that decision harder though...
Gnome and KDE has their own window managers, namely Metacity and KWin. These can be replaced by other window managers, like Xmonad, and you can still use the Gnome/KDE infrastructure and utilities just as nicely.
Actually the lottery can do better than that.
The expected value of a lottery ticket can exceed the cost to play ($1) when its in its third or fourth round without a winner.
There is actually a perverse incentive for Google to do this since they get another chance to show you more ads. I'm not saying they optimize for this case, but the incentives are there that might encourage this kind of behavior.

Edit: redundancy
Building an advanced ActiveRecord Model in PHP - Part 1
You can keep your fancy NotePad. I use edlin for all my Drupal development.
Does anyone get the scheme joke on that page? The only thing that comes to mind is that I think the (cond) construct used there doesn't exist in pure scheme.
It's more likely the RH looked at the market for a consumer desktop OS and decided that they couldn't make money there. I have no doubt that RH could produce a consumer OS at least as nice as Ubuntu, but once you have investors and shareholders you have to start to do what is most likely to earn you money. I don't know what Canonical's books look like, but I have a hard time imagining that Ubuntu is bringing them the sort of money that RH gets from its more business oriented OS offerings.
I'm another one and have been following hn for a long time. it can be a little intimidating to post in a group that seems to be mostly programmers.
The OS reviews Ars produces are always epic and great.
I really like this Ubuntu forum http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
Well, there's me. I don't want to wait for junk to load - I'm not a stim-junkie.
Also, consumer computers ship with Yahoo or MSN set as default, most defaults never get changed. So no actual info about user preferences there.
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Secrets to successful quit smoking revealed by a group of journalists.
Dear HN, could you please help load-test my Twitter-based chatroom experiment?
Evidently I've done a poor job of making a joke :D

My point was just that we've found that the best way to motivate people to use our products has been to illustrate that they're missing out on an opportunity by not using it. Since I do all enterprise work, the fastest way to do that is by showing them how it affects their money, not that our solution is cheap or expensive or anything like that.
Netflix coming to Sony PS3 despite Microsoft's 'exclusive' claims
I know the movie. The content of the article is not apparent from the headline.
I have a laptop from work that can I take with me on trips.

I also have an iPhone for internet access on the go. So I don't see the need to buy another portable computer.
Write verbs on buttons. It's really as simple as that, but every OS I know has a problem with doing just that. Even OS X is lacking in that respect (they try, but miss too much).
Use a SWOT analysis to evaluate security needs
Intelligent Testing
I've used google since it was google.stanford.edu, and it's clear to me the results have suffered. My feeling is that two of the problems are SEO and feedback effects of google's own popularity.

SEO: When you cut through all the BS, the entire goal here is to make a less good match come first. And it works (sorta). Just consider crap sites like Experts Exchange that we've only learned about because they pollute many searches.

Feedback effect: Thanks to google, less people do less collecting of good links. Why bother when you can google for it? So there's less good information for google to use in ranking links. Bear in mind that when google started, nearly every home page had a long list of links to all the pages that particular user liked and frequently used. I used to have one; I've long since deleted it; my blog has some outgoing links that I like, but relatively few. If I twittered, I'd probably post a lot of outgoing links, but of dubious value; there's no gardening of just the perfect page of 100 links going on anymore.

(I think this also partially explains why some (generally more specialized, so less effected by other things) results feel dated -- legacy links that are still hanging around from days when links were still used that way.)

Feedback effect: Thanks to google, ten sites tend to be more important than any other sites on any given topic. This results in certain sites becoming increasingly important. Wikipedia is the chief example here. Why is there only one Wikipedia and not a dozen? Chiefly because it's gotten all the google juice. If you want your wiki article on foo to show up in google, you naturally write it on Wikipedia, not Fooipedia. The result here is that all google searches feel increasingly the same -- of course Wikipedia is always in the top ten, or maybe something like Stack Overflow for a technical search.

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So, these days, if I don't see something interesting in the top ten, I often click on the link to page 10 (or 20, or 100) of the results. Often more interesting. For example, google for "mashed potatos".

Top 10 results: "Perfect mashed potatoes" (SEO), allrecipies.com (always in top 10 for any recipe search), foodnetwork.com, Wikipedia, about.com, nytimes, etc. Pictures of mashed potatos. All generic and useless.

Page ten results: Dairy-free mashed potatoes. _Potato_ free mashed potatos! Caramelized Onion Horseradish Red Mashed Potatoes! A poem about eating them. At least marginally more interesting and quirky. What I would have expected out of google circa 1997.
Selling Software != Selling Consulting

Hence it depends on type of the company.
>Just pretend it's not configurable. Now it's like all the other window managers.

Currently my xmonad.hs looks like this:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Config.Gnome

main = xmonad gnomeConfig
{ modMask = mod4Mask
}

Works perfectly for me, no hassle required.
Ahead of their time: Nine technologies that came early
The Lost Episodes
ABC: please let go of the DVD perspective and embrace Web TV.
What are financial derivatives is fairly well understood at least at a conceptual level.

The interesting details are of course:
1. What is the actual price of a derivative product especially of a Credit Derivative product ?
2. What is your risk profile if you are holding a derivative product ? and the corollary how do you become risk-neutral?

Its interesting to read the literature on this subject and find that the experts don't even agree on the terminology to define something., forget the actual definition.
True, but probably due more to the lack of demand for one rather than the technical difficulty of creating one?
Bhante Vimalaramsi. He showed me a different side of life, which is very unusual in the westernized world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhante_Vimalaramsi
Bobby Fischer: Genius and Idiot
My memories of Aquamacs are full of fighting with the thing to do what I wanted. It was overriding everything I customized in my .emacs.

About the only positive thing I found about it was the ability to run in full-screen mode (something that ntemacs is still unable to do).
Birthplace of the Nuclear Monster: A visual insight into the Manhattan Project
I thought so too, Bing seemed very poor for the technical related searches I made.
I flipped both my 4:3 monitors (19") to display vertically. They are 1024x1080. I don't think I'll ever go back to horizontal.
I wouldn't say Lazy. They are Rational.
I don't know much about the patent process in regard to "strategy" but maybe this is just to throw a wrench in Google's plan for an OS?
Unfortunately yes. Most result sites are built solely to drive search traffic.
I've had that surreal experience myself. My tech support people are so great and they sometimes explain to me how they did something to "hack" our software to work a certain way for a customer and I think, "how did I not think of that?"
Maybe the fact that JavaScript was originally supposed to be Scheme but ended up having C syntax for political reasons.
WAT Cracked On Windows 7 Allows Pirates To Enjoy Genuine Status And Updates
Hacker's succeeded in cracking Microsoft Windows 7 activation even before it got officially released on 22 October 2009, now the same guy Hazar has came up with another utility 'RemoveWAT' which claims to completely remove Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) from the operating-system allowing users with illegal copies of Windows 7 to activate their copies and enjoy retaining genuine status letting them receive all updates from Microsoft, this will even let them pass the genuine check in Microsoft software's like Windows Defender.
Or perhaps they plan on something else and ads are a natural extension. The patent is a device to prevent others from placing ads on the OS. This is my private hope anyway.
People will look like the people who most have children.

Do you have children? If not, then the people of the future will probably look less like you and more like the people who compounded faster than you did.
Do Too Many Rules Erode the Rule of Law?
> 1. They mention "Gnome compatibility" and "KDE compatibility" on their page. Why? I thought this window manager is supposed to be used instead of gnome/KDE, no?

You can do that if you want to, and most choose to. But there's good reason to not to:

I, for example, prefer not to spend a couple hours setting up dzen or xmobar in all their multifarious complexity & ability, getting the features right, setting up the colors to match my current GTK theme, etc. when I could just continue to use Gnome status-bar. (Gnome may have its issues, but I have no problem with the status bar.)
Not to mention that running inside a Gnome session means you get a decent window manager, but also you get all the stuff Gnome usually does like printer support or device management. You could figure out how to do that independent of Gnome, but I don't consider that a good use of time.

> 2. On some screenshots you can clearly see overlapping windows, i.e. not all of them are always tiled?

You mean the floating layer? Windows are either tiled, or floating; floating is for things like Firefox dialogues which don't make sense to push into the tiled arrangement.
I am still using TextPad which I started using since 90s. But wish I could jump to something better. TextPad is now dead with no update for, what 6 years? No v.5 doesn't count as update, it's downgrade. No Unicode, only more fancy GUI.

Switching editor is really hard.
China's Facebook Few: 14,000 and falling
http://www.fudgie.org/slashdotted.html - a recording of the traffic glTail got from Slashdot after it was announced. If I remember correctly, it got a bit over 4000 requests/minute at the 'worst'.
Where did you get that weird google.com/#hl... link from? It broke in my browser (the redirect from google.com didn't take it in to account when it bounced me to google.co.uk), but I've not seen URLs like that for google.com before.
The Framingham study is a good study for what it is about (risk factors for heart disease), but the study is probably inadequate for studying general selection pressure on the whole human population.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

The key quotations in the article are

Douglas Ewbank, "Those changes we predict for 2409 could be wiped out by something as simple as a new school-lunch program."

Steve Jones, "Uniquely in the living world, what makes humans what we are is in our minds, in our society, and not in our evolution."
Evan Davis meets Warren Buffett (on TV tonight, UK only)
I humbly apologize for my stupid remark. I admit I didn't do any diligence, I was just trying to sound smart.
Should be an interesting interview! Evan davies is a pretty solid presenter.

But, yeh, UK only - unless there is a way to get BBC2 overseas :D
Dean Kamen for sure. I thought I wanted to be a business major, and then I started doing FIRST (Dean Kamen's high school robotics competition). Now I'm a CS student about to go to grad school.
didn't know this. thanks.
There was a comment on LessWrong where a poster suggested using Yahoo over Google for non-quoted search. I tried it myself (I need to find an article based on several words mentioned in it) -- and was pleasantly surprised. Yahoo seems to be doing much better job than Google for non-quoted search requests.
In defense of the semantic web
"People do other stuff besides 'work' at the office. Film at 11."
This is arbitrary. You could just as easily target 'sports', and survey workers on how much company time they spend managing their fantasy football teams, checking scores, etc.
JQuery Plugin: It's CuteTime
You know, I did too. Seemed irrelevant to the article.
I don't consider this "arbitrary code execution." To me, that implies that someone not logged into the system was able to exploit a vulnerability in an externally facing application.

In this case, the author assumes a login. That's like explaining how to break into someone's house and starting with "Okay, you're on the other side of someone's door. Now you can do what you want!" It just turns out that the semantics of ldd are to run the program. This is no more arbitrary code execution than tricking someone on Windows to run your program by saying "Download this file and double-click it."
Look through the eyes of Google
Google Webmaster Tools has announced the addition of “Labs” section which includes two new features for webmasters.
"The bastard science of eugenics, [Jones] says, will haunt humanity as long as people are tempted to confuse evolution with improvement."

"confuse evolution with improvement" I agree.

"bastard science of eugenics" What an appropriate slur: "bastard". Well, whoever parented that bastard wins this debate ---whatever that debate might be--- when you and the children you didn't have all die. You can go sit in the ground with the Quakers and the Spartans.
I hope they enforce strongly and never let anyone else do this ever.
The question specifically refers to people you've met.

From an entrepreneurial point of view, I'm sure that the fact that my best friend (and cofounder on my first business) had been running businesses successfully for years was a major influence in convincing me that it makes sense to make that leap.
First phrase of just the second sentence:

Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children

Uh, what? Do people actually think that?
It’s All About Hope and Opportunity in China
Super-oarsmen vs. Lying Historians
Exactly my thought.

The arbitrary code is executed only when the user tells to do so. This is not a bug, it is a feature. Computers are supposed to work like that.

Raymond Chen observes: (link: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/05/16/8510192...)

It is not a security vulnerability that users with permission to shut down the computer can shut down the computer. This is another example of people getting excited that they were able to do something unusual. But just because you can do something unusual doesn’t mean that you’ve found a security vulnerability.
Canadian Flu Fears Go Parabolic?
Degenerate diseases don't kill you before you can have children.

"Those changes we predict for 2409 could be wiped out by something as simple as a new school-lunch program."

Stupid. African nations have both the highest birth rates and the worst nutrition. If anything, expected good health after reproductive age negatively correlates with fecundity.

"Uniquely in the living world, what makes humans what we are is in our minds, in our society, and not in our evolution."

If Steve Jones knows of some supernatural force that excludes the operation of the human body from physical reality, he should describe that force and submit it to a physics journal. Otherwise, yes, minds are minds, but minds are not magic: they're meat.
I wish there were a search engine that was not optimized for the mass-market, but weighs technical oriented stuff a bit higher. So if I search iPhone view, I do not get results like "View all iphone features" but something related to the iphone uiview.

I think in future search engines should lean a particular way depending on your profession - "Google for Medical Personell", "Google for Architects", "Google for Programmers".
Rethinking World Income Distribution: Not So Bad?
Record bidders lift prices on license plates in Shanghai
If I have to face something like he did, and I can handle it with even half the style and grace that exhibited, I will consider myself to have done well. He was an amazing example of how to live.
I've been thinking of doing that. Was it a pain to reattach the mount?
IT leaders trust Microsoft more than Google, 2-to-1
Not being a native speaker this confused me for a moment there. I'd like to add to that that most of the world's programmers (and this article's potential audience) are not native to the English language. Don't make the additional effort to confuse us mate.
Agreed. I tell my partner "We can write that easy!" and he always replies "We CAN do ANYTHING, Joe. What SHOULD we do?"
How working on my own is working
Agreed, human evolution will be determined less by selection pressures and more by breeding pressures. Those who breed early and often will dominate the future as late pregnancies (35+) typically bring higher complications, earlier births and typically less healthy offspring.

However society will play its pressures too. Access to adequate and nutritious food can be more important than healthy genes (after all you need proper nutrition for your genes to express themselves correctly during your development) so a 22 year old mother on welfare with 5 kids and no child support is going to have a problem raising healthy children.

In the US, access to healthcare will certainly play a huge part in the future (presuming it doesn't change vastly over a long time). An imbalance in access can give an unnatural advantage to the unhealthy.

The potential for the future of evolution in our species is amazing. We have so many more variables in play that will be tweaking us, instead of standard variables for hunter-prey relationships. It raises a lot of questions about what our species will be like in a few hundred-thousand years.
Maybe, but then again, perhaps with better tools it is possible to have more friends after all. Some people make good money by being able to connect to more people than the average person, and then facilitate contacts between less gifted connectors.
http://www.scaled.com/news/index.html has been doing this since 2003
Why Hulu should make us pay.
Yeah, I'm real glad that the Unix permission scheme is actually worthless because of non user intended code execution in core utilities.
James Surowiecki: Why Banks Stay Big
It should be pointed out, however, that while Windows 1.0 might have been a tiling WM it doesn't come even vaguely close to the depth of features and attention to detail put into xmonad (and some of it's competitors).
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