skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a great way to shorten the edit-run cycle, but my first question would be: where is my source? More specifically, is Akshell storing it in some kind of version control? Is there any possibile way to take it offline, and edit it on my local machine (still in my browser)?
Pulitzer-Prize-winning article on leaving babies in cars
I think that my English is to weak to answer your question :) I use technical knowledge on web development - and of course I am learning a lot of things about professional photography. Moreover I invest in studio equipment - check my older posts I link to in this one.
It eliminates the ??? step:

Step 1: Release Core 2 Duo

Step 2: Release Core 2 Duo now that they're practically free

Step 3: Profit.
Except that they have been saying "Don't Buy - Updates soon" for the last three months.
Not only that. I've been a Mac user for almost 10 years now but I'm waiting for them to add TRIM support to OS X before taking the SSD plunge. Everybody using an SSD on OS X should understand that its performance will degrade more quickly than on another modern OS. It's quite disappointing to me.
No quad-core? Considering Apple's popularity with developers and media creators, I expected to see the option.
It's one thing to calibrate, it's another to rely on context-sensitive data and pretend it is universal, when instead you can just rely on the context-specific data for any specific context and refine the estimates as you go. To my knowledge, web browsers do not "calibrate" like this.
That would be my question. In my experience code that's been transformed programmatically is not meant for the eyes of mortal man.
No, the website has your implicit permission to distribute copies of your comment, which is not the same as owning its copyright.
Eventually, we are all going to have netbooks/tablets/phones that are basically full-blown PCs which need interface peripherals.

Actually, we have that degree of CPU power on the phones already, for a value of "full-blown PC" from years ago. What we need is more support for the use pattern in the OS/software.

Take your data everywhere and have it synced with the cloud for backup/web access in a pinch.

EDIT: Software does this, if you are savvy. I'm talking about becoming the mainstream use pattern.
The one detail I found most interesting is the historical point:

"The executives I met all showed pictures of their youth, reminding me that just a few decades ago, their country was nothing more than sand, tents, and simple stone."

The idea the "capitalism/democracy/natural resources" is what make the USA a world power is a limited analysis. There are huge cultural and social forces that can not just be bought. He suggested 'human capital' would have been the best investment, but it is only princes that are provided with advanced education and it's likely only a few of those are interested in slogging through the trenches of starting a real business. Educate non-royal-family citizens and you will be financing some type of revolution, not something the Dubai power structure would ever allow I suspect.
No.

That isn't how trademarks work. Your trademark protects you inside a specific field of endeavor where a consumer might be confused about the source of a product.

If you use a word in good faith for its primary meaning and no consumer confusion is likely to result then you are fine.

On the other hand, if you wrap yourself up to look like you are associated with something you know your customer has already purchased and likes, then you will have a problem.

In between lie lawyers.
Having sex with someone you met in a bar, simply because he or she used a few canned lines and techniques, is trashy. This is true regardless of social class, ethnicity, education, gender, et al.
Super-easy. I have the first-gen unibody Macbook Pro, and it's right next to the battery as you take the cover off. Just one screw and it's out.

I can't speak for the newer, non-user-replaceable-battery models, but I can't imagine they made it harder to replace the HDD.
What is this mozilla you speak of?

(Being an early adopter since phoenix, already moved to chrome and never looked back)
And less booze.
This is pretty damned impressive.

My question would be whether the work that's gone into this will also help the Windows/Mac versions of Firefox to load faster...
The previous version didn't offer 1680x1050 at 15"? I consider that a necessity.
Word cloud generator to create beautiful text typography
Word cloud generators provide amazing way for text visualization. The new app is developed by tagxedo and it was built by developer Hardy Leung and released just a couple of days ago. This app is really stunning.You can create different shapes out of it.Even you can add images to outline the words to create stunning effect
Sure. Most laptops are definitely powerful enough for my needs and I absolutely can’t stand the fixed nature of desktop systems (and their ugliness). My laptop is not on my desk most of the time, even though I don’t really take it with me (anymore) when I leave the house.

(I’m also one of those strange people who prefer using a trackpad to using a mouse.)
That's another kettle of fish, and you're right on most counts, except I'd lose the "it's stupid" attitude - people 'waste' resources in satisfying their tastes in many ways. We can keep haggling about the price till the cows come home.

Actually, coming back to the trees for paper-making, you can add to the downsides that usually the trees are fast-growing (e.g. eucalyptus), not 'nobler' woods (even humble pines are too slow). And the mills do smell a bit - in a particular highway route, I can tell when I'm driving past one mill I can't see. On the other hand, the process does capture carbon from CO2 ...

P.S. A good argument can be made that 'wasting resources' is the basis of human civilization, without which we'd be living in caves and frugally feeding on berries. Check out what happened because of luxuries like silk and condiments like pepper ...
For those curious as to why performance will degrade quicker on OS X:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM

Just had to look that up myself. Shocking that OS X doesn't support it natively, although the article suggests there may be utilities that can replace that functionality.
Thank you. There is a tool for accessing Akshell: http://www.akshell.com/docs/guide/using/#tool

You can use it like this:

sudo easy_install akshell

akshell get your-app

# make changes

akshell put your-app -e "test()" # send changes and run the test() function

It can be integrated into an IDE (I use it from Emacs). But it isn't a substitution for a version control, which wouldn't be handy here because of short put cycles.
> strawmen

Speaking of strawmen: I don't see anyone claiming that "ContactPad" is a generic word. What I see is the claim that it's a non-generic name made from generic elements none of which is owned by Apple, containing no bits that are owned by Apple.

(That doesn't mean Apple aren't in the right here. I don't know whether they are. You can certainly infringe on a trademark without using the exact mark, and if someone brought out a tablet computer called the EyePad then the absence of the "i" would be no defence. But "ContactPad"? "JournalPad"? Not being a lawyer, I have no more than a guess. But my guess is that Apple's trademark on "iPad" is not in fact enough to make it illegal for someone else to sell a program that runs on an iPad and has "pad" in its name.)

> tell me the developer shouldn't have seen this coming a mile away.

Now, that I can certainly agree with. (And, also, of course it doesn't matter whether Apple have any sort of credible trademark claim; they can control what gets sold on the App Store without one.)

> a particular kind of quark

The quarks are: up, down, top, bottom, charmed, strange. (For a while T,B were called truth and beauty). Those are all common English words. Why would the fact that they're also names of quarks stop your lawyers worrying about them? -- Or do you mean that your product was called something like BottomQuark? You do realise that there's a really quite big software company whose name is Quark, right?

Or were you talking about soft cheese?
The "authenticity hoax" is an intersting one, but the analysis is particularly shallow and consensual.

Basically he points out that the quest for "authenticity" is both opposed to progress ("consumer culture"...) and rather a quest of social markers. But he jumps to the conclusion that we should consequently "accept [modernity's] trade-offs". It seems like a typical example of paralogism: either your for us (our current implementation of progress, the powers in place) or you're against us. There's even a Godwin point as he gently critiques people who "see a market economy and consumer culture as sterile and false (...) and who defend the world's most repressive cultures". What??? If we're against consumerism we're for Stalin?

Nevertheless, what he points about "authenticity" is important as people who reject consumerism tend to throw the baby out with bath water and seek a return to an idealized past. The problem here is the lack of visible alternatives to our regimes (so, in some sense, the powerfull media and propanda industry).

However it is important to note that our overall interlinked and financiarized economy needs a lot more progress to transform itself into a more decentralized and resilient system: that's where local culture, organic food, mixed cultures, and others enter into the picture!
Except that Congress lacks the power to do such a thing. The Fed has that power, but no incentive. In fact, the amount of printed currency in circulation has been holding steady for the last year, so money is not being "printed". I wish the printing money conspiracy theory would go away.

Edit: Changed 'money in circulation' to 'printed currency in circulation'. I think it should be obvious from the rest of the post as well as the context that I'm talking about printing money, but apparently my use of the word "printed" wasn't enough to convince people, so I added another use of the word.
No USB 3?!
Hello, Thinkpad.
and of course the higher end i7s have 4 cores (and no on-chip graphics)

Of course! The name makes that obvious. Thanks, Intel!
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I tried the beta about a month ago. Made no difference to the fan problem, but it did leave a string of text in the middle of every video. I can't remember what it says as I've not got my macbook to hand but it normally disappears a few seconds after a video starts in the non-beta version.
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The time you spend putting a new drive in and putting OS X on it is less than 30 minutes (unless you were born with your thumb in the middle of your palm, that is :)

The money is roughly the half, and as a bonus you also get to keep the drive that came with the computer and use that as backup or additional, external storage, or even sell it to someone to get a few bucks back.

A simple rule of thumb for the Apple customer - NEVER get upgrades along with the order. It's just a waste of your money. You really don't have to be much of a "DIY" to replace memory or storage in a MacBook - they are all much, much more user friendly than your average HP/Dell/Whatever laptop.
There isn't a 4 core mobile i5. The i5 should mean mainstream and i7 enthusiast performance. So you have i5-520M, i5-540M and i7-620M dual cores and i7-720QM, i7-820QM and i7-920QM quad cores. And their TDP is 35W for dual cores and 45W for quad cores.

See http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Intel-Core-i3-i5-i7-Proc... for perfomance of these new chips
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Tip. Don't put it in upside down and then push hard or you'll end up having to undo a whole lot more screws.
OK, but if your government is going to spend money at all, defence isn't a bad way to do it. You get lots of jobs directly and indirectly, you pay for the development of lots of interesting tech that has civilian/commercial applications (i.e. you are creating wealth), and you get the defence of the realm "for free" on top of all that! (Esp. if you have no wars on, admittedly).

Whereas those other programmes you mention, regardless of any other merits they may have, constitute paying people to not create any value. Which seems a bit of a weird way to spend the taxpayer's money.
huh? yes it does. I use it every day and it works great.
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A infringes B and C owns A implies C owns B? That would be novel doctrine.

I wonder, does Apple have app renaming support? When the user updates, does it pull the newly named app or does the app just die and the user have to find the new one? If the app updates, the name changes a little and the icon stays the same then it isn't too bad. If the app goes away that is devastating.
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Nice to have i5/i7 but the NVidia GPU is somewhat terrible. An ATI 5xxx series is not only more power efficient which Apple cares about, but much more powerful. No IPS screen or USB 3.0 which you sorta want given the premium status of mbps. Jobs commented that MBP would go to a "new level" this year-- this isn't quite new level so I would guess another update in the fall. SSD upgrades also not as useful since no TRIM support. Still the sexiest laptop out there tho so what can ya do but give Steve your money?
I think the point is Apple prefers the 13" Macbook pro having the more powerful NVIDIA integrated GPU over the iX Intel Core CPUs's Intel HD integrate GPU.
> A trivial system with these properties is one that replicates every update to all available nodes and requires reads to get matching results from at least half of the nodes.

Nope. You haven't thought this through.

One problem is that "all available nodes" is one of those fuzzy concepts that sounds reasonable but is actually impossible to actually do.

Say you send a write to 3 replicas, all of which you think are up. Only one acks the write within 10s. Did the other nodes fail before getting the write? You have no way to know. In the meantime, what do you do with the node that did ack your write? If you tell it to rollback, what happens if the other, "failed" nodes failed after performing the write, but before the ack? Or are they about to ack, if only you wait another 1s?

(2PC can help but there are failure scenarios it can't handle, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol#Disad...)

Another way to think of the P in CAP is "Proceeds without potentially unbounded waits."

> Paxos is another example.

Paxos isn't a magic wand, either.

You should read http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2521.
My physics eluded me. It was actually a pair of quarks.
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In a fractional reserve banking system money is created when a loan is made. Thus when Congress takes out a loan for a trillion dollars that money is injected into the economy and as it passes through banks who also make loans there is even more money created. This is considered a feature of fractional reserve lending by the mainstream. Austrian economists consider it a bug.
I can't speak for the mobile models but on the desktop, i5 vs i7 is a wash for most tasks with only a few percent in it.
I've looked at the costs of starting a CA and they are absolutely astronomical for the average person. Not that every person should be able to start a full-fledged CA, but the whole thing is scammy on the tail-end.
TB bacteria decoded, paves way for new drug
Any idea how come the battery is so huge and so light at the same time? 78Wh for a battery that doesnt protrude from the case is a lot
Unless I'm mistaken, there's no mobile quad-core Arrandale CPU. You'd have to go to a non-mobile chip, with TDP in a completely different ballpark.
Corei5 does NOT support HyperThreading unlike Corei7
I've read this article before, and speaking as a parent, it's the most gut-wrenchingly sad thing I think I've ever read. The fact that it's so well written only magnifies the tragic horror of the subject matter.
Are the new Macbook Pros i5 & i7 vPro's Quad Core?
I wanted to know if the new Macbook Pro's (April 2010) are quad core or dual core processors? I've poked around on the intel.com site and I can't tell. Thanks!
I replaced my desktop with a MacBook and an external screen, keyboard, and mouse. I get all the performance I need, the experience of a desktop, mobility, and no need to keep anything synchronized across different machines.
Where is the spin? I didn't see it. Did he mis-state any facts, or leave out something important?

The author clearly has an agenda, but his opinionated-sounding statements (for instance, that this debt will be 'dumped in the laps of our children') are factual: these bills will come due. The statement that taxpayers have to decide if they're getting their money's worth is nearly axiomatic.

Really, just the bare statement in the title, "Washington will spend $31,406 per household this year," is staggering. Call it spin if you will, but holy crap - that's about 80 percent of the average person's total earnings.

How many people would really say "I'm willing to give 80 percent of my income to the federal government, and some more to the state government?"
I like tropical fruits too much to eschew anything that comes from more than 100 miles, but the "authenticity" movement has a point. Modernity is mostly a good thing, but it has its pitfalls. For example, eating 150 pounds per year of added sugars-- mostly high-fructose corn syrup-- is not healthy. Nor are hydrogenated oils good for the body, at all. Suburbia has been mostly a mistake (intended to be the "best of both worlds" between rural and urban life, but closer to the worst of both for the poorer 90%). Wal-Marts are generally bad for communities, as they eviscerate their business-owning middle classes. Finally, although I don't foresee "peak oil" in the immediate future, it's becoming more expensive (economically and environmentally) to produce it.

When the chips are down, almost no one wants to get rid of modernity. The anti-vaccine morons and the creationist loons and the Tea Party slobs are out there, but they're on the fringe. On the other hand, the concerns being voiced in the "authenticity" movement are legitimate; is it really good for us, as a nation, to have an economy that relies on an environmentally costly fuel that we have to import from religiously bigoted and psychopathic despots?
I'm pretty sure it's standard operating procedure for large companies to have company housing. I know that if you get hired at Apple or Microsoft they'll put you up in company housing for up to a month while you look around for a place on your own. It's a great perk when a lot of your employees aren't local since they won't have to scramble on the week/weekend before the start to find an apartment and be stuck with the first place they could find that was available immediately.
Long essays require well organization
When it is up to essays, most of the times students don’t get to choose the extension of their works. It is up to the teacher to decide the essay word count. And many times, as students we may need to deal with the challenge of writing a really long essay.
doesn't look like it.
How do you solve the trust issue in this? Is that like friending in a social network?

For instance, can anyone link their app with mine? How do we keep everything consistent?
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The amount of money that is in circulation has been holding steady for the last year

This has never been true at any point in recent history:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2?cid=29

Granted, the uptrend is a lot shallower than it was a year ago.

Except that Congress lacks the power to do such a thing. The Fed has that power[...]

Also untrue. Congress created the federal reserve through an act of legislation, and congress can just as readily destroy it.
I don't know about that. I've had this SSD-based 15" MBP since last fall, using it full-time, and it certainly hasn't fallen off any performance cliffs.

So maybe this is more of a theoretical problem than a practical one?
One the idea- Who said print was dead? There are several niches and this is one of them. There is nothing like a mug of coffee and a nice magazine/news paper on a Sunday morning. Plus I would really love to see someone build a profitable business out of HN.

On copyright issues- I do not know why anyone on HN would worry about someone reprinting their comments. The minute you put them online is the minute you said "redistribute". Someone would really need to be a hater to complain about it.

On your experience- Nothing trumps the passion that drives a need to solve a problem.

On the business model- It would be interesting to see the numbers.
Intel X-25M has TRIM support in the controller itself, and thats the way it should be I believe
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I wasn't sure how long you guys have been in stealth mode, so I thought you might've applied before the RFSs came out.
This? http://usablesecurity.org/emperor/ - it is an interesting read.

It should also be noted that it's not even a 25% benefit for them, but it does help security, even if slightly. I think lowering phishing 1% could be massive for any major bank.
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Is Apple Bigger Than Microsoft?
oh come on! This is an OPINION PIECE, written by the Heritage Foundation, which is a CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK.

How about some disclosure on HN?
When you remove the constraint that the battery has to be user-removable and user-replacable, you get to choose battery sizes and shapes that are a lot more impressive.
Of course they do, and I've stayed in company housing myself when working on remote projects. But this goes well beyond that: shuttles, cars, food at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Also the way it's the Google this, Google that sounds kind of funny after a while.
I bought a new laptop recently: i5 Toshiba, 4GB, 0.5 TB. Also plays blu-rays. It cost just under $800. There is no near match with Apple's new lineup, but roughly the Apple tax is about 50% and for those of us who mostly boot Linux the price difference is just not worth it. I must say though, that for developers who live in OS X, the new i7 MBP 15" does look great.
The Fed "prints" because it is buying mortgage and Treasury assets with magic new currency. Yes, the new cash is being hoarded as bank reserves and it is not in circulation (yet), but you can be sure it is newly printed money.
What amazes me is that their public image is still one of The Good Guys despite them being a huge corporation (just look at Apple for contrast.)
I recall seeing an indoor skiing hall megastructure on discovery, so you're right :-)
It is an opinion article, written by the Heritage Foundation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
That's what the Czech want you to think. They are really, really good at protecting data. I am not allowed to reveal more.
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Well maybe he will when the first issue comes out. But it's not out yet, so what should he do, not ask for an e-mail? :)
Love, love, love this.

Was surprised (which only shows my ignorance) of the sizes of some stars, compared to 1 AU.

Also - how is the estimation of the size of the universe (not the /observable/ universe) done?
The safety net encourages people to create value by taking on more risk, e.g. starting a business. If you are going to talk about all the economic side effects of creating bombs and surveillance systems, you need to talk about the side effects of entitlements and social programs too.
Again, which of the facts in it are incorrect?
Is there really any difference between 13" MBP and 13" MB apart from unibody? (and is it worth the price difference?)