skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim must not have flown through Moffett Field.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-06-05/business/17163317_1_go...
I have a Studio XPS 16 on the way (RGBLCD @1920x1080). It was about $1500 after coupons and it blows these MacBook Pros out of the water (a lesser configured MBP runs about $2300). Apple's actions last week had me ordering the Dell Friday morning.
I don't think he can be called unsung given the frequency at which his story shows up on sites like hn and reddit...
Not necessarily. My school's Dragon Boat Festival team didn't. The rowing itself still built some serious muscle.
I will check it - thanks :)
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No, I'm not assuming anything (perhaps you are referring to a different comment). I'm asking for baseline substantiation and citation. Simply this - be aware of the biases of the material you read, and be skeptical of anything that boils something as complex as the budget into a bulleted list. Especially if that list is packaged up as a press release. I would say the same if ACORN released a list like this.
I eventually got a desktop because I didn't want to keep on re-plugging every time I got home and have lesser screen real estate than two dedicated screens and got a lighter secondary laptop. It's really a shame that macbooks don't have docks.
47% don't pay federal income tax. To quote the article: "The vast majority of people who escape federal income taxes still pay other taxes, including federal payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, and excise taxes on gasoline, aviation, alcohol and cigarettes. Many also pay state or local taxes on sales, income and property."

So it's quite inaccurate to simply say they don't pay federal taxes, particularly when discussing an article identifying 32% of federal spending going towards Medicare and Social Security.
I was looking at HP Envy - it's more than $1500, but seems nicer than MBP and had i7 since launch in autumn.
A brief history of 15" PB/MBP screen resolution: Oct'01-1152x768, Apr'02-1280x854, Oct'05-1440x960, Feb'06-1440x900, Apr'10-1680x1050 - finally!
I'm not voting for this only because I've seen it on HN before, but if you haven't, it's a true must-read.
Where the heck is the config page for that? I thought I'd set that as my preference on my account, but it switched back to flash for some reason.
I've had a number of recruiters contact me through LinkedIn. There are also language/framework/technology-specific sites like http://djangopeople.net/. I've gotten a number of calls through that site, including the one that led to my current side job.
Again, thanks for your comments, I believe you are right. Particularly administrators are less concerned with what is in the database than how the database is organized and performs - for them the product does not currently offer any particular advantages at this stage. I will seriously consider how to better address this, given that administrators are arguably the most obvious consumers of this kind of product.

At this point the product addresses many of my own pain points of modelling and troubleshooting databases and data related issues from the point of view of a developer. Test departments too will benefit a lot from these features. As for the other groups it is true that they will mostly use a dedicated interface, yet for the time when the occasional manager or supporter does need/want to check out something he can. That is mostly an added benefit from the product being (hopefully) so easy to use.

Thanks for giving me something to consider for the future direction of the product.

By the way, the PDF example just demonstrates how the tool lets you download a file directly from a binary field in a table row (f.ex. bytea type column). It can be any file type, some use the database to store images, for example. Similarly, you can upload a file from your PC directly into a binary field in your table. It is a good example of how the tools makes an otherwise involved task very simple.
With respect of iPads for moms and grandparents, I am also a bit doubtful. Since a lot of web sites probably don't work as expected (ie no Flash, among other things), wouldn't that be confusing to the noobs? I am waiting for the first review from an iPad-Mommy.
Wouldn't that mean the expansion of the universe is being caused by addition of mass? Would we be able to tell if our universe was getting 'heavier'?
Is this an AppJet clone? I'd be so happy to have AppJet like functionality again...
Ask HN: How did you come up with your startup idea?
I am interested in the (non-)processes behind innovation and building a startup.

There is some overlap between the two (some startups are based on innovative ideas, others aren’t), but also a large disconnect -- execution, luck, connections, partners, geography, funding, and so on.

Ignoring the complexity behind the latter elements for now, I’d love to hear from HN readers how you came up with your startup or side-project idea.

Was it luck, conversations with peers and entrepreneurs, predicting a technology trend (how?), simply better technology...
Defense spending for the sake of having a big army is a waste. Weapons don't create resources. Weapons help the exchange of resources, enabling the full spectrum of trade, from don't take my stuff! all the way to give me all your stuff! but sticking mostly to reasonable trades.

The value from defense spending came from darpa or specialized research projects by the various branches of DoD. It's a pretty small fraction in relation to total spending. darpa itself is about .5% of defense spending.

Building that first stealth bomber is really cool, it drives a ton of innovation and research. building the 12th one doesn't do a whole lot for the economy. It seems to take a bridges worth of taxes and park it on a runway in saudi arabia.

social spending is weird. there are homeless folks in town that rack up 300k emergency medical bills from, well, living on the street. it would be a lot cheaper just to rent them an apartment and hand over a case of beer every day. The big win of social security, it's way cheaper to give someone who couldn't work more than an hour a day 6k/year to heat their house and feed themselves. way cheaper than nursing homes or whatever.

fwiw, medicare and medicaid pay fixed amounts, making more money means being more efficient. a lot of the private hospital profitability comes from meeting federal requirements more efficiently every year.
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What public are we talking about? I don't think Apple are considered to be a big bad bad corporation outside of developer circles. On the other hand there have been news reports about how much Google knows about you etc. here in Sweden.
>Finally, although I don't foresee "peak oil" in the immediate future, it's becoming more expensive (economically and environmentally) to produce it.

Peak oil precisely means that it's becoming more expensive (economically and environmentally) to produce it. We've used up most of the cheap, easy-to-reach oil and now we're paying more (and producing more pollution) to get at the expensive, hard-to-reach oil.
The quad-core mobile part is designated Clarksfield. TDP is 45W for the lower-clocked models and 55W for the highest. The Arrandale chips Apple is using are 35W.
If you're a business customer they'll often exchange your Mac without charge if you bought it within the 14 day grace period. That's been my experience anyway...
You're going to have a near impossible time turning this into a business. My suggestion is you open source the whole stack and figure out how to sell it to enterprises for internal application development.
> Since larger companies mostly grow by buying startups

Is that even true?
I just got mine, returning it this week. It's an amazing machine if you don't plan on using Linux. The screen is so much better than a MacBook Pro.
There's also the issue of depreciation. In 3 years, you'll be able to get about $10 for your Toshiba, whereas a 15" MBP will probably sell for $700-1200 depending on the model. The cost of ownership is much closer than the price tag would indicate.
This is what happen when you first open your app the public, you get feedback that may not line up with you primary vision. I found these primary feedbacks invaluable because it tells you that your product is not doing exactly what people want, you learn from it and shift direction. Your idea is very good and well executed, you should minimize the trust factor by making it less social based ; make it possible for someone to take his code away from your platform.
I'm a parent and I couldn't read it, I had to stop.
>A CrossFit guy I know says, squatting when you are 30 means when you are 80 you can go to the bathroom unassisted.

I wouldn't be surprised if that were true, but I haven't been able to track down any solid information on it. There are a lot of articles talking of research showing elderly runners and elderly former runners suffer less disability in terms of doing those sorts of daily tasks than their non-running cohorts.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NHF/is_2_21/ai_10117...
If we are within a black hole, should we not see matter pouring in ?

Or would it be too slow for us to notice?
Has anyone ever tried to track down "Mel"? Not that I doubt the veracity of the story, it'd just be interesting to read an interview with the guy, if he's still alive.

I guess if he was programming in the late 50s odds are against him still being around, though.
At first: I feel very sorry for you and hope that your father will return home without getting into trouble. I do understand your point of view.

I just want to say that this video could make US^H^H citizens worry more for _all_ the people on the ground of Afghanistan or any other war zone. That is a good thing.
Title is on the sexist side and exclusive of female programmers. To a female reading this, you would be glamorizing the time when they weren't in this field.

You can glorify past events without being sexist. Try setting up a true scottsman.
I am a very fast reader.

Every time I say this, someone accuses me of not thoroughly understanding what I read. But I've excelled at pretty much every reading comprehension test I've ever taken, so it's getting kind of old.
If it's anything like that pathetic excuse for an exclusive video from last week it won't be worth watching.

Report the news . Don't make it, fabricate it or skew it.

The days of yellow journalism are still alive and well.
looking at specs new battery is 63.5Wh vs older model's 60Wh
If you have to have an email address to sign up to most if not all social networks, how is the sign-up figure correct?
Yeah but they could have at least done more memory on the GPU if they were gonna do a 330m. And if you are gonna stick with Nvidia why not do a NVidia 335 which has been out a while now.
what's wrong with using linux on it? some drivers not available?
What else is available with a similar build quality? Anything besides ThinkPads?
Congrats to you. The sweetness of each self-earned dollar can outweigh the multiple dollars earned working for someone else. And in many ways, those first few dollars that validate one's ideas can be the sweetest of all.
The Akshell is all about the former way. The idea is the following: I administrate basic utilities and libraries and you trust me because you use Akshell. These applications are free, they have public repositories at http://bitbucket.org/akshell/; so the development is driven by the community and is beneficial for everyone. I am responsible for consistency, stability, etc.

The resulting environment is easy for development, is formed by a community, and is stable.

Other developers could gain an authority and authour such applications as well. In future, they will be able to make money on it.

The cloning is a good way for libraries, but in Akshell you could create utilities as well. It's easy to explain by an example: in the profile application users save their profiles; other applications could access them. Cloning the profile code is senseless, because its data matter.
How to build multiple targets (Lite / Full Version) from a single xCode Project
http://www.youtube.com/html5
nothing should change...the people in Afghanistan already know all about all this stuff.
The audio file linked in the article is brilliant. If you have 10 minutes, I'd suggest listening to it instead of reading the article.
So, I priced my MBP out to around $2500 bucks, and a somewhat similar Lenovo T510 to $1869.

I was thinking about getting a mac really just to have the option to do mac desktop application development. Would I be better off with a hackintosh setup instead?
As of the update today the MBP is more desirable: significantly better better life, twice the RAM, slightly faster CPU and that slick unibody case which is thinner and lighter.

Before the refresh the MB was the best bang for buck.
The benchmarks will probaby be on this site somewhere -

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark...
I think it's possible that the widespread use of non-lethal weapons could result in greater attrocities than the use of lethal weapons on the macro-level. It may not always be aparent, but in general, there is human restraint against killing other humans. A group of people would have to do, or at least be pegged with doing, something fairly high on the "bad scale" to justify use of lethal force. I suspect the threshold for beating them into submission with shotgun fired beanbags, high-pressured water, etc. would be much lower. At the level of an individual life, non-lethal would obviously be better. But at the level of one group of people trying to exert their will over another, I think non-lethal weapons would lead to more of that exertion, because it would be less difficult to justify.
Oleg's method is shorter.

http://okmij.org/ftp/cpp-digest/Functional-Cpp.html
Just looked at the Studio XPS 16 - sweet. A bit off topic, but Windows 7 is actually OK. For work using platform agnostic IDEs (for me, this is IntelliJ for Java/Scala/Clojure/JRuby), the choice of OS does not matter much, so at least for my work load I don't even have to boot to Ubuntu all of the time.
Potter was co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell, in which they argued that the hip counter-culture rejection of competitive mass consumer culture is itself a primary driver of that culture, setting up fashion and lifestyle as positional goods and enforcing a fast turnover of consumer products in a futile collective attempt to stay ahead of the curve.

I'm a pretty left-wing liberal, and for me Rebel Sell was a powerful antidote to the sometimes-ridiculous conceits and dogmas of the left - including the belief that mainstream culture is phony (think The Matrix or, more recently, Wall-E), the sheeple are all brainwashed, and the best thing the Hipster Elect can do for them is to try and wake them up.
Deleted my previous ignorant comment - I had it backwards.
The idea behind TRIM is so the OS can tell the drive when a block is free, so the SSD can pro-actively erase it, which is something that otherwise slows down the write cycle if you are writing to a block that wasn't already clean. That's not something you can just magic into a drive.....
Thank you for your reply. But I think that benefits of Akshell grow with its community; so I'll try to promote it as a single service.
I have heard this idea tossed around a lot. Is there any cite-able scientific evidence out there which supports it?
Neither is it for me. I'm sending mine back. Things I don't like: (a) Eye strain, (b)It doesn't provide enough utility for me to justify another device in my life, and I don't want another media consumption device. In short, it's another toy.
(c) An awkward device angle when touch-typing and trying to read what I'm typing.
what crypto acceleration does i5 have?
Here's a prototype of my iPad killer!
http://twitpic.com/1fb2ox
Seconded. Eat less rice, bread and pasta. When you do, eat brown rice, and whole grain pasta & bread.
Experiences, Not Products, Provide Happiness
Well, I'm just telling him what would make an easier buy-in for me. And I'm pretty certain they are others out there like me.
Personally, I like to hear what would change someone's no to a yes, and this is the information I was trying to convey.
Good point, but I keep laptops until they die. Never have sold one. Do used Macs really keep that much of their value? I can't imagine spending that much on any 3 year old box (laptop or desktop).
A massacre is the indiscriminate, unnecessary killing of a large number of people. It doesn't matter how you kill them.
Nothing too much performance-wise. The new plastic one is even, at least in name, unibody. But it has a glossy keyboard area which you can scratch up pretty easily with a watch strap (I tried this at the store).

Looks like they put in a new battery in the Pro, and it has a fancier graphics card, SD card reader, and Firewire.

To me, the Al casing is worth a bit more money and wouldn't mind an SD reader, so I'd watch the Apple refurb store for last-gen Pros (which is what I did in January).
I'm not sure whether it's more readable though, which imho is more important.
like anything would be different if they killed more people.

That My Lai incident you brought up? Where 300-500 civilians were killed? Where the soldiers went out of their way to eliminate every civilian(no fog of war, no "we thought they were terrurists"). Where they killed women, children and infants....only 1 person went to jail for it.

2 days later he was released from jail by the order of a president no less...pending his appeal, and on appeal he was only given 4 months in jail and 3 years under house arrest.
• Firewire

• SD card slot

• Now longer battery life with pro
Thank you! In fact, moving code away from Akshell should be possible. All libraries and utilities are BSD-licensed, one only have to clone the core to run Akshell applications.
The responses make for interesting reading.
No, they tried Mono and found it wasn't ready for primetime. Read the article.
That's incorrect. All mobile Core i5 processors have HyperThreading.

http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=43483

In fact, there are only two Core i* processors that don't have HyperThreading support, and they're both variants of the same quad-core Core i5 desktop processor (Core i5 750 and Core i5 750S):

http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=42912
No, RAM and hard drive installs are almost always considered user-replaceable parts. I believe the exception to this is replacing the HD in iMacs, where you have to take the screen off.
Ah, more self-infatuation with his new Rock Star job. Note the reference to mere mortals "Normal People don't live like this". Yes, happily I don't sleep in Company beds, eat Company meals, congregate in designated company areas, ..., do they issue Scrip like the old mining towns?

Glad you're enjoying your new career....(but pssst: your life isn't really very interesting).
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Not really; the hassle of maintaining a hackintosh is high. (I've considered it). Your time should be worth the $650 or so.

I would consider the W510 to be a closer analogue, too.
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IPad App Review: Dash Four
With the iPad having been out for a week, users may still be trying to figure out where it fits into their day to day use, and developers are trying to tweak/create applications that take advantage of everything the iPad has to offer. Immediately after getting my iPad I started to look for the same apps that I use daily on my various devices (BlackBerry Tour, Nexus One, iPod Touch). I am an avid Twitter and foursquare user, so that is where I started. One of the first apps I found and purchased was Dash Four, a foursquare application made specifically for the iPad. Read on to find out more about Dash Four.
The AES-NI dedicated instruction set for doing AES.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/clarkdale-aes-ni-encrypt...
This is quite innovative, a javascript appengine if you will. I am not so keen on the enforced sharing, I think separating "library modules" from "user apps" and providing opensource access to the "akshell" engine so folks could host their own, port the db over to google appengine etc. would make this rock. So, is the akshell engine's source open/available now/later??
I've gotten warranty service just fine with random RAM and hard drives in my machine.
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I never used AppJet, but according to its wikipedia page Akshell provides its functionality.
When an insurgent points a RPG at my Humvee I should fire [far less lethal] rubber bullets back because I have better air support?
The use of the word "massacre" implies ... a deliberate killing of large numbers of noncombatants

I expect that the most famous "massacre" in history, at least to Americans, was the Boston Massacre in 1770. In that incident, 5 people were killed.
ditto on the USB3 - I think 2011 will have a whole slew of products (most importantly, displays) based on USB 3.

I think the best powerhouse laptop is the Dell M6500 with 1GB ATI m7740 or 1GB nvidia FX3800M + USB3.0 options.

The worst part is that the macbook pro has a max memory capacity of 8GB, while the M6500 has a 16GB DDR3 top capacity.

No brainer IMHO.
Reading widely (i.e. not just technology blogs/forums), being genuinely interested in what other people do and the problems they experience in doing such things, dissecting a problem to see whether it can be avoided or ameliorated, exploring existing attempts to do so, analysing their benefits and failings, developing an alternative approach to the problem, discussing this with people I trust who have different knowledge-bases (particularly if they have knowledge of this area), reflecting on whether it still seems like a good idea, doing some rough calculations about market size, pricing (or other monetization route), and feasibility given my own skills and network, concluding whether it is a good and implementable idea and, if so, getting to work and continuing to work long after the initial excitement wears off.

tl;dr: Assuming until proven otherwise that everyone has something to teach me about the world.
Authenticity: buy it by the bag.

My problem with many rejections of consumerism is that in fact they are rejections of the consumerism of people with fewer dollars and perhaps degrees. I hoped the peak of absurdity was reached when the NY Times Sunday Magazine featured the Reverend Billy, who does anti-Starbucks stunts. It did not seem to bother those who wrote in the following week that the magazine routinely features outfits in the fashion section that would cover the monthly mortgage on a pretty good house in much of the country.
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The thing is, it's rare for a Mac laptop to die. I still have a perfectly functioning 12" powerbook that won't die despite all my attempts to kill it.
The author thinks third party apps that open browser "sheets" are using an Apple "API". There goes any credibility he had.
Fair enough. Though I think the point still stands which is that most would be choosing whether a person far richer than themselves should pay a chunk of their money and more people would be willing to do that.