skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article asserts that this species is separate from h. foresiensis, but I'm curious how closely they might have been related. Sure, they are separated by geography and 50,000 years, but it seems more plausible that there were 3 rather distinct branches of humans wandering around at the time than 4. And there is a cladistic analysis suggesting that h. floresiensis diverged more recently than h. habilis which would make the timeline for the one fit the genetic evidence for this new species.
And you can bet that is not IPS matrix. I am amazed that so few mention this feature of iPad, especially that IPS matrix a hard to find even on high-end notebooks.
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The second item is a 4.8" $100 'ipad killer':

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/android-tablet-news/65-1...
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And here's the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/276476
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Why don't women just start their own thing and leave the masochists behind? Just look at all the successful startups out there in this space. You don't even need to be some kind of type A aggressive male, plenty successful geeks are type Bs.

I think the real reason the women aren't infiltrating the male dominated industry is because they are letting themselves be to dependent on the status quo.
Screw the man-made disasters, just think of how fast diseases would spread. IIRC, dense population centers were one of the contributing factors to the bubonic plague.
Isn't this a great use case for torrents?
I asked him about that a couple days ago. I doubt he'd mind if I reposted his response. He said: "I'm indeed working on those features, although not as feverishly as my other projects. This app was mostly an experimental
side project."
Pretty sure it's credit card info since that's the most accurate option available. If you're outside those countries you're probably unable to use the iTunes store.

I think they use IP geolocation until you're authenticated - that's been my experience traveling a lot and being a whore for new laptops and/or clean installs of Windows every now and then.
Could you just track the time deducted from the company's time, and put in the extra half hour or so?
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There is a 7" screen sized one as well:

http://hott.net.cn/EN/Channels/Products/showDetail.asp?objID...

video of the device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmWFn2m4Rk

(bad video, but it still gives a good idea of what it can do)

That's $92 without flash, import duty and so on, so the price will go up considerably by the time you have one in your hands.
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I don't think companies can own knowledge, mainly because it is physically impossible. Once they figure out how to remove knowledge from the mind, then maybe they can.
>What changed is Google is losing market share

[Citation Needed]
I'm sorry, but that seems rather obvious to me. Males have been trying to impress females since the dawn of time.

Was this research really required? They had a nice experiment setup, but didn't seem to bother with different age ranges, sexual orientation or any other parameters that might yield actually interesting results.
Or rather Off-the-record messaging: You do not want deniability, and not leave provable traces.
I wish this was easily turned off in teh settings or other method natively. Until I jailbroke my device, reading in bed wasn't very easy.
Does anyone know what type of issues this device will have due to the resistive touchscreen and third party apps? Especially for games or any other apps that are designed more specifically for capacitive touchscreens?
P v NP is completely unrelated to this thread. If someone proved P != NP (by which you mean NP is not a proper subset of P) in 1 minute it would prove he is an extremely smart theorist. Not necessarily a good developer. It would also prove they are extremely bright.

Your point is understood but your comment seems to trivialize the problem of P v NP and also shows a misconception about the foundations of Computer Science and the difference between CS and Software Development.
If it wanted to sell most products it would not only lower it's prices significantly it would also produce much more products.

Challenging competitors is among some of the things companies do. That doesn't mean they fear them.
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It was actually really surprising how inept he was at that side of it, and the ease with which he'd incriminate himself and everyone else via cell phones and email.

It just seemed like a really weird contrast, smart enough to plan and execute flawless robberies and escapes repeatedly, yet so stupid in that aspect. If he watched any crime serials or movies he'd probably have been unstoppable.
It was long. The entire thing took almost two months, and about three weeks passed after my final on-site interview before I heard anything definitive, though there were a number of intermediate steps in between.

My recruiter was really helpful. He kept in touch with me throughout the process, and let me know each time I passed a milestone. I've spent the last four years in a C# shop, and most of the interviewers he found for me had some background in C#. It ended up not really mattering, since most of the whiteboard problems only required pseudocode, but I definitely appreciated the effort.

The questions were pretty much all data structure and algorithms. I wrote a lot of code on the whiteboard (or in Google Docs for my phone interview), and was asked to justify my choice of data structure, and explain what sort of dataset would make it a poor choice. Upon finishing my solution, which was usually for a very contrived problem, I was sometimes asked to figure out a real-life situation where it would be useful.

I'm happy to have made it through, and am looking forward to starting my new job, but I do wonder a little bit about the interview process. I spent the last four years shipping a number of fairly substantial desktop applications, and have also been reasonably active in the Clojure community, and neither of these came up once after my initial conversation with my recruiter.

It's possible that my resume said everything that was necessary on that subject, but it also seems possible that neither of those things mattered very much compared to my grasp of CS theory. I don't mind much one way or another, but it's a kind of funny that I can come out the other side of the process, and still not have much insight into their hiring criteria.

Anyways, hope that helps. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask, though I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer.
Oh yes it will.

Apple nearly went bankrupted, mostly because even if the hardware was good, their Mac OS was a piece of shit that started paling in comparison to Windows NT, OS/2 or even newcomers like BeOS, while Win 95 gave you approximately the same value but with increased compatibility with older / current apps.

They can't keep their premium market if you can get the same quality for a lower price and a lot more freedom to tinker. Google coupled with HTC/Motorola can deliver that quality.

Their only option is to keep innovating and keep infusing mass-media with Stevey-juice ... but that's not sustainable.

I don't get why they haven't learned anything from their past mistakes. Lock-down, patent threats (it was copyright in the old days) ... do they really think these will work?
Do you have PTSD?
There was an article on HN earlier talking about how certificates have never actually protected anyone from fraud (fraud cites don't try to forge certificates in the first place, or so the article said). Now it gets worse -- not only is it not protecting you, but it's luring you further into a false sense of 'security' and potential government surveillance? No thanks.
I've only ever used the C implementation. It's slow.
sorry for the meta-comment, but i'm dismayed by the use of down-votes for posts expressing unpopular opinions (unpopular w.r.t. the hacker news audience). it's gotten so bad that i can quickly pinpoint dissenting opinions by scrolling quickly through a thread and looking for big blocks of grayed-out text (in contrast, down-votes for one-liners like "lulz ur a fag" are usually justified).
Thumb is about encoding instructions within 16 bits; it's not about the addressable memory, and it's not about running parts of the CPU in idle - that's an orthogonal issue. The main advantage of a 16 bit instruction is that it is twice as dense in the instruction cache, reducing cache misses - which are extremely expensive in terms of power consumption.
> The illustrations don't really complement the text, and interrupt text flow.

Especially annoying was that the images were presented before they were mentioned in the text. The reader is interrupted from reading text to see this large image that has nothing to do with the preceding text.
So how well can you type on these things, is it possible to do some coding?
Thanks bunches. You've now put a question in my head that I've never thought of before and am stuck wondering about...

"Are there geographically ideal places for data centers?"

...I never thought much of the question before, since I've heard stories of places like the Principality of Sealand being used for them, thinking that where you put them is more a matter of politics than situation.

But Florida does sound like a less than ideal place for a data center, given its location on a peninsula in a hurricane prone part of the world. The only advantage logistically I can think of is easy access to ocean cabling.

EDIT: That reminds me... A few weeks ago, while visiting family, my mother asked me why they didn't put data centers in salt mines. She reasoned that the temperature and humidity controlled environment would be ideal for climate sensitive hardware. I didn't have a good answer for her, either with regards if they did so or not, or why not if they didn't.
"Basically, most women applying for the job want to have some assurance that they're going to be respected and their concerns taken seriously, and the best way to demonstrate that this is true is by having some women on your team."

Oddly enough, most men applying for the job want to have some assurance that they're going to be respected and their concerns taken seriously. Having someone of the same sex as you on a team or at the workplace is no assurance of anything.

Also, lots of men get put off by immature attributes about sex, and a company the fosters a culture similar to a high school boys locker room is going to loose both men and women who don't care for that.
I'm only as successful as I am because I wanted to prove to my girlfriend (now my wife) that I am worthy of her. Plus, she's hot.
Should all kinds of truth always be released? I think a bit more sophistication is necessary here. For instance, should the launch codes for our nuclear weapons be made public?
Yes, I completely agree. I couldn't read beyond the first couple of paragraphs because it was so difficult to read. If I'm having to work to read an article and it's not something that's completely amazing, I'm going to stop reading :)
Unless the Windows software is .NET code - in which case Jazelle RCT on ARM provides a performant solution for bytecode languages.
More than not multitouch, it's a resistive (rather than capacitive) touch screen, so you can only reliably use it with a stylus (which is included.)

Which is a bit of a downer, cos I was thinking of getting one to mount one in my car. Also, AFAIK, there isn't any good free handwriting recognition on Android yet, so you may be stuck tapping an on-screen keyboard with a stylus.
Indeed. Especially compared to the lack of effort on the user's part.
Uh, using language like "bottom-feeder RDBMS" and saying that an engineering team is using it "horribly incorrectly on clearly comically deficient hardware" makes this article highly biased, and trollish.

It's pretty clear that this guy things Digg is a bunch of idiot engineers - I mean, why else allude to "rudimentary comp. sci. knowledge"?

These articles might have a central point, but when it's surrounded by a bunch of opinion, it like watching TV news (e.g., Fox News). The real information gets drowned out.
I think he was trying to be funny also, but I've seen some articles more or less blaming "goddamn aspies" for women's aversion to CS, which seems to be getting pretty close to some variety of bigotry. Of course, it's not clear if the bigotry is coming from women actually avoiding CS for such reasons, or just from people writing such articles.
Classic pivot.

I wonder how many startups actually stick to their first idea, and never deviate from that.
Why wouldn't it be a "bug"? That's what they call such things in spam emails.
I dunno, I'd hardly call CarbonMade's users "Normals":
Concept artists? Fashion Stylist? Photographers?

Instead, I'd call that a good old-fashioned "target market." They don't seem to be targeting the 99% SpencerFry calls out as "normals" of the Internet, they're targeting maybe 2% of the Internet that doesn't happen to be early adopters, which is just another 2% of the Internet (good advice, IMHO).

I guess it just seems to be (well intended!) misleading to encourage people to attract this mass idea of a "normal" market when the market the company hits is just as niche, but a different niche.
This is great. Thanks for spending the time to type this up! It does sound like a very involved process.
As a note to that, the iPad has a hardware rotation lock switch.
> My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented.

This kind of thought scared me. It is a shame to admit that about 3 years ago, I held the same belief. But through my experience in doing startup and get in touch with several high level official's children in China, I think that it is totally wrong.

Maybe they are intelligent but their intelligence are definitely not used in the right way. How can you expect one who spent the whole life on plotting how to kill politic opponents to be a visionary? From my experience, the high level officials in China are corrupted. They buy luxury goods, pay for the most luxury sex service all that stuff.

There is an old Chinese saying which describes the current regime in China perfectly: 肉食者鄙，未能远谋。 It says, the one who eat meat everyday (the one in power) lost the ability to envision the future.
Would you be willing to host the torrent file?

It sounds like there'd be some risk involved..
I figure for a small email, you could probably use the screen.

Anything beyond that and you'll have to find a way to graft on a keyboard. Usb or bluetooth ?

For real coding I'd do it with a cross development kit, which is how most phone software development is done.
You can reach me at AtomicForce@gmail.com or jhartman@linkedin.com. I joined this team: http://sna-projects.com/sna/ This team specifically has open sourced a lot and there's a lot of info there if you're interested, though obviously LinkedIn has many more openings beyond that team.
"If the government doesn't continue to make progress, the people of China will hold them accountable."

Some people are trying to do just this, and they are being put in jail or silenced in other ways.
I think the requirements are that the entire process is atomic and preserves file attributes.
"same quality" would be the key word there. Google has yet to show that they can deliver anywhere near the quality of the iPhone OS as far as user experience is concerned.
It'd be a lot of fun bringing in water, food, and oil, that's for sure.
Reminded me of that article by P.J. O'Rourke where he compared Santa Clara County (I think) to Bangladesh. Both have the same population density...
Thanks for that. The resizing task at Rackspace Cloud has been at 98% for 30 minutes. Awesome.
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I read (I think on DaringFireball) that the iPad will have an orientation lock switch, which will prevent it from rotating.
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slinkset.com is similar to hackernews. I'm thinking of adding it to my site and run community aspect of it. Do you use it? Any issues?
Apple products are about experience, that's what they really sell. Hardware and software are perfectly tailored to works seamlessly with each other. And for sure it isn't a free OS that let other companies undercut Apple's price.
Agreed. Reading the digg article I'm interpreting their perf claim to mean "on a loaded server in our cluster, if we try to do this query on a cold cache it takes 1.5 seconds to complete", because this is exactly how I would measure the performance.

When I test the performance of a query, I query a live mysql node (or at least a live replicated standby) of some data that's not actively being used (to give a realistic "cold-cache" scenario, even though the caches aren't necessarily cold).

If digg used this method, it would completely account for performance discrepancy. Digg did not release a benchmark, and trying to treat their findings as a repeatable benchmark is wrong.
What on earth are you talking about?

Apple nearly went bankrupt until Steve Jobs came on board again.

Yes Steve Jobs will eventually quit and yes that might be a challenge that might even lead to their demise.

But Steve Jobs will be leaving something very valuable behind.

A rock solid digital ecosystem that is only starting to show it's strength.
This is amazing and all, but this technology has been available for GIMP users for years. I have been using something very similar since 2004 or 2005.

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer

This page http://slacy.com/blog/2005/04/cool-image-processing/ shows you how to use it to remove an object which will be automatically replaced by surrounding texture (similar to first example in video)

This page http://schwarzvogel.de/resynth-tut-sa.shtml shows an example of growing and image by auto-filling the missing edges around a photo (similar to last example in the video)

I suppose the new algorithms in PS are better, but still it's been over 5 years now :-)
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Yeah, but Google is not know for poor quality of its software. And as far as hardware quality goes ... there are mobile manufacturers that can deliver it (HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Nokia).

Surely Apple has control of the full stack, but it's not like history isn't repeating itself :-)
Many Americans lack respect for cultures that are not considered European. They have been brainwashing into believing that their culture is "the best". They do not study history and know little of social studies. I think this stems from a disease called "the white man's burden."
American's must understand and respect that their "way" is not the only "way" or the best "way".When you try to use false pretense to further your own private agendas that looks bad; and to insult the intelligence (disrespect) of the Chinese it looks really bad.
How valuable in the long term do you think a classified mailing list for San Francisco is to the world? Or an online bookstore? Or a social network for a school? Yet Craigslist, Amazon, and Facebook morphed into amazing things. YC companies do things that are tractable and fundable within 3 months, which is the first test. Then, with some focused success, they grow/expand. At this point, it takes some vision to imagine what these companies COULD be in 7-8 years (which is the average time to liquidity for venture investments).
from an objective standpoint China is a much nastier place than the USA for freedoms and human rights

I think it's important to question that statement. Consider that we learned in the past few years that the US has been routinely practicing "rendition" for decades... in other words, putting someone on a plane and flying them to a jurisdiction without any human rights protections, and doing all sorts of highly illegal, human rights violating things to them.

Also, the US has an interest in convincing the world (especially its own citizens) that it occupies the moral high ground. This is part of the American story. Americans will not tolerate wars that are about territory or resources, but we seem to have an infinite tolerance for wars that are about "good vs evil". Thus the moral high ground is the first step in any warmaking propaganda.

In an absolute sense, with routine rapes in prisons, rendition, the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and gitmo, etc., I seriously challenge your assertion that China is "much nastier".

Ironically, the reason China practices censorship is to limit the chances of widespread social uprising. People in the US tend to idealize the idea of revolution so much that our through process is "well of course they should have a revolution, then they'd all have freedom just like us". In reality, widespread social uprising in China would likely mean millions of people dead or starving and no chance of a gradual transition.

The reason China cracks down as hard as it does is b/c there are fault lines in its society that might crack and result in social uprisings and lots of people dying.

It is in the US's interest to try to poke at these and provoke them, to prevent China from proceeding gently into the modern age. This is why Obama feels comfortable starting a trade war that will lead to many in China starving, and why Paul Krugman forgets all about economics and calls for massive tariffs. Neither of these men care if people in China die as a result of their actions, and both will be the first to criticize China for its occasional crackdowns rather than praise it for its massive undertaking of nonviolent societal transformation into the modern age.

China's big problem is that as it liberalizes its economy there are some areas that have become very rich while others have remained very poor. If a social uprising along class lines were to emerge, it would destroy China. Unlike the US, China does not have geography conducive to domestic transit, thus its coastal areas are inevitably going to be far wealthier than its inland ones.

Is it unreasonable for China to try to stop social uprising movements? No more unreasonable than for the US to try to stop them. But to consider what is an equivalent movement, one must appreciate what a delicate balance China has undertaken.

In light of this, the sheer irresponsibility of Obama and Krugman comes to light. Google too is guilty of this, though I don't hold a company to the same standard.
Trackerless torrent files combined with hosts like Rapidshare, Zshare, Megaupload, etc should do the trick. Once it starts to spread it's unstoppable.

Or host it in a country that likes to irritate the US government. Iran comes to mind. Venezuela would surely be open to it as well.

If Osama Bin Laden can find hosting there is no reason why a group of clever engineers can't as well.
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I have a policy of not bringing the work laptop home... it never sets foot in my house so there's no temptation to use it for my side-business.

Ironically, this causes problems with my employer because they'd prefer I had access to company email etc at any time (it's not a requirement of the job they'd just prefer it).

But if I can't use their time, network and electricity, then they can't use mine ;-)