skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “everything it does I can do on my PC or my phone right now.”

Right. But when your PC gets a virus/hardware-failure or your phone keypad is too small to type up a paper, what would you buy? Maybe not this current version of iPad but eventually the only computer my parents will use/buy will be an iPad or a very similar device. It will be something that works like iPad Wifi (3G not required), will connect to cameras, printers, and have live video chat features.

If it runs Farmville, it addresses every single use-case for my parents. And since it will be easy enough to move around the house, they will love it. I bought them an iPad Wifi for now but hopefully will get them the iPad + USB + Camera device sometime in the near future.
The handset maker verifies that the update works with their models and customizations, and they makes the new files available to the MNO (Mobile Network Operator). The MNO then decide if/when the OTA push happens.
He does the designs for our startups.
Home Lighting Fixtures
Whenever you walk into a room, one of the first things that you cannot help but notice is the lighting. Believe it or not, the kind of lighting that you have in a room drastically affects how that space looks.
Good point - I have just updated my Landing Page!
I had misremembered titles last night, and thought that the book used as a reference here was the one panned in the article submitted to open this thread. Whew! The book we have is actually Harbison and Steele. I tried to read the Amazon recommendations carefully before buying.
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> Assuming they want mainstream traffic they should only listen to the users who represent the vision of a mainstream product.

I don't think that's the point of the article. It's the early eighties, you're running Apple, and you've just flopped with Apple III for business and the graphical Apple Lisa is going nowhere.

If you ask users who represent anybody at all you're going to wind up making PCs running MS-DOS. The OP's point is that Digg shouldn't listen to any users at all. They need a dictator. In other words, they need to listen to just one person.
Another iPhone 4G prototype shows up, bears all including Apple’s own A4 chip
Right you are jbellis. Had forgotten that Dalvik isn't just a small JVM but a completely different architecture (register based, etc).

But anyway, what nimrody suggested is what they are doing - using platform neutral Dalvik bytecode and then transition to native through JIT.
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The article clearly states that Coralmyn would have been on the market, except for FDA approval. The demand is low, I agree, but regulatory overhead made the difference between producing something and producing nothing.
Link with video - http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/iPhone+4G/news.asp?c=2...
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Ok. Whatever happened to 'mysterygoogle.com', I thought it was a neat little idea?
For a leaflet-sized errata, that would be the case. Here, it seems, the errata would be comparable, if not larger, than the original book.

I wonder if the guy could get away with publishing a book called "What's Wrong in C:TCR". Any copyright lawyers want to chime in?
Finally someone who agrees with me. I used to have a little mantra when I was there - "For digg to grow, Kevin's got to go."
LOL! Reminds me of this track / video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8

(Read A Book by Bomani Armah)
From the grandparent:

> Long story short - many people have thought the same way as you and tried to rectify it, often with undesired results.

I am obviously not familiar with the particular situation, so I was speaking in generalities: secretaries and assistants are I daresay as a rule vastly undercompensated in comparison with their bosses (and many other professions). In those circumstances, giving some lavish one-time gift or bonus is probably the worst kind of an incentive.

Overall, I think we are in agreement...as you say:

> Well, yes you probably should, but you should probably think through the best way to do so before doing [showing your appreciation].
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I just imagined a hilariously awkward social encounter between Christian and Herbert Schildt, perhaps in a book signing.

"We meet again, Mr... Seebs"

I wanted to share this with those with similarly distorted imaginations.
My high deductable plan doesn't cover anything until I spend $1.5k on health costs in a year. (Except preventive health stuff, that's all covered.) After you pay 1.5k they cover everything. My company and I pay a premium for this coverage (it's not nearly as high as the co-pay and HMO plans available).

Really, when I got to the doctor once or twice a year, for a whopping grand total of about $70/visit, then spend MAYBE $100 on prescriptions/other medications with my prescription discount card, it's really not worth that extra $30 every two weeks.

I don't want to pay for my hypochondriac neighbor's daily doctor visits, or for their kid's sniffles. The way I (and a lot of other Americans) see health insurance is that it should pay for things that would bankrupt you, I can handle the small stuff.

The best part about HSAs is that they are pre-tax accounts, so they help with your income tax costs. This also has the effect of making medical things cheaper because you didn't lose 30%+ on that money before having to spend it. I'm just hoping Congress doesn't cut the usefulness of HSAs with their new health care garbage...
Unfortunately, sales receipts and investment firms don't share your reticence. What is mass market anyways? is it 1 million? 100 million? 1 billion sold? If the mass market was just techbloggers you might be right, but now they are looking like the new Cmdr Taco iPod review.

The mass market are people like my family and friends who don't know what it does but know they have to have one. I don't need one and I plan on getting one. Just waiting for v2, Apple has a history of v1 bugs I'd rather avoid.

If anything, Apple has already established the long tail. They've got apps and add-ons. It's hard to find an alarm clock without an iPod dock these days. j/k
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If the phone that sjobs@apple.com introduces in June is significantly different in terms of outwards appearances, I think it will really wow everyone way more than usual.
The HTML5 and Flash Debate from a Flash Developer's Perspective
So, most of the 'unwashed masses' then?
It would be pretty hard to explain why without explaining 90% of the plot. Fortunately, there is wikipedia, which will do the spoiling for me - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
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Handmade prison escape tools and weapons:

http://trinixy.com/28-handmade-prison-escape-tools-and-weapo...
that's a wonderful story!
My tweet was silly, but the police reaction was absurd
Maybe these are coming from etherpad brains.
I used to run past that place a lot. During the evening it would often conjure up zombie movie plots.
Ask HN: Mailing subscribers
Anybody know what resources a startup would need to email it's subscribers? Obviously dedicated mailing servers are a must, but what else? Is there a reading list somewhere that goes into the process involved?
This may be one area in which big corporate business is better than startups/SMB. The Exec assistants in the large companies I've worked for have been very well respected, well treated, and often made more money than the average IT guy.

The departmental assistants, not so much. But the ones who truly supported the execs did quite well.
Nothing at all from me, probably you have to be more careful how you handle your social circles.

Do you work with a pseudonym online? You should for the most part.
.de root-servers are down, *.de TLDs do not resolve (german)
I had a similar thought progression, but then I went from "What did we do?" to "Oh crap is Jupiter going to blow up or something" and finally "Wait, that is stupid"
There is no way to send an 'exploratory' order as you describe and is is, as you suspect, impossible to cancel an order that has already been executed.

The only way the example in the article would be if there were no other available sellers at a price below 26.41 (in which case I'm curious why an algo would bother sounding starting at the low end instead of the high end. The only ways to get such a wide market would be for all the other sellers to have disappeared (in which case the buyer is not disadvantaged by the HF algo because he is getting his order done rather than not) or for the HT algo to have made a guess that other people would be willing to pay a higher price in the future for BRCM and bought all of the shares available up to and above 26.40 which is the definition of a short-term trading strategy and, I should also add, full of risk that the price that you just pushed .30 will fall back down without you having a chance to get out hence making it a losing trade.
I am not against reddit but it tends to draw a very mixed crowd which is not favorable. Something like HN would be more focused
Normal Flash running in a touch-based device (video)
When our computer science department was founded, Fred Brooks (the founder) insisted that the university provide funding for a department secretary from the outset. He went through a lengthy process of selecting the best person he could find, and to this day she is revered in the department (one of our classrooms is named in her honor). It's not a matter of considering some tasks to be "below" you, it's about maximizing your productivity by dividing labor.

From the department history [1]:
"Professors and administrators may be loath to admit it, but no one knows better than they who runs a university: the department secretaries. [...] He was fortunate to secure the services of Sara Elizabeth ("Lib") Moore, a graduate of the University who had worked in the chancellor's office before moving to Duke University. Lib ran the Department for 16 years."

[1] http://www.cs.unc.edu/History/Infancy.html
Actually, we probably do want to care about that. We know Earth's environment is changing but be don't really know why. Our planet is a single data point in the solar system, which makes analysis a little difficult.

Is Mars getting warmer or colder? Is Jupiter? Why is Jupiter's atmosphere visibly changing? If all other planets in the solar system are getting warmer/colder, shouldn't we expect Earth's temperature to change as well?

It's like a bright neon sign flashing "Clearly Explained Reason for Increased Solar System Exploration", but the space agency budget folks will likely ignore it and attempt to gain public support through some asinine vision quest thing instead.
BP was mining for some toxic gas on the surface of the planet when something went horribly wrong. Now they're pumping out 5000 Bcfe's of it per day into the southern hemisphere and its destroyed the red stripe we'd become so accustomed to.
why not just use github ?
> It occupies too much territory already covered by
> smartphones, PCs, laptops and traditional media.

For me, the question isn't whether it covers territory already covered by existing electronic devices like netbooks or what have you, but whether it covers a significant amount of the territory covered by _paper_. Can it substitute my A4 notebook, or my diary, that's what I want to know. It won't be the same, but will it be as good or better, all told?

As a substitute for a PC, netbook or smartphone, it's compromised in important, possibly fundamental ways. I don't know if it is similarly compromised as a paper substitute. If not, mass market acceptance awaits.
This is a really interesting approach. I've been reading http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/ for a while now and the whole DRM argument there has been that there's realistically a threshold on how much you make on a game before it pretty much becomes readily available to pirates and/or the initial sales interest is just gone anyway and the rest is not a reliable source of income. Something like that. So an approach which provides an incentive to maximize early sales during a brief period with a statistical understanding of what the target sales are and a reward to the public for getting there is really cool. It sort of embraces the piracy constraint and optimizes for being profitable in light of that.

Imagine if the maker of some new, high-budget PC game called "DRM GoreShooter" decides that they will be in good shape if they make $5 million in the first three weeks of sales and past that point they won't really be profitable anyway (DRM or not). They want a profit better strategy than trying to use DRM to extend the window of pre-piracy sales out to week four or five, which might or might not work anyway. So they sell the game with something physically in the package that's really cool and you can only get in the first few weeks and they let you report in your product code, one time, for credit on Facebook or wherever for you having sponsored the development of the next game and been a generally cool person paying for quality entertainment. Would that be a better approach? It might ultimately result in the same money, but could be done as a way to cost less or at least provide a great marketing push and build good will in the fan-base.

My argument would work better if I had any idea how much it costs to develop, maintain and manage a per-title DRM strategy, I suppose.
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One of the best things about hg is that it doesn't have an hg: protocol.
That definitely makes sense when you're at home or in the office, but I've recently started working off my laptop a lot more, and this is helpful when I'm at a cafe or a clients site and I don't have any access to the router and need to give someone access.
Private repos?
What is also missed is that most exchanges discontinued flash orders late in 2009. BATS and NASDAQ both discontinued the practice, Direct Edge still allows them (they are opt-in) and NYSE/ARCA never had them.
Quite a guy.
Wow, how did you put that together? I'm impressed.

The domain was not really kosher for obvious reasons, nor was our derivative site design. Google eventually asked us for the domain. The idea is still going at http://MysterySeeker.com with a new layout but much diminished traffic.

Mystery Google also morphed into http://MysteryMissions.com, which is going pretty well.
I'll agree with that. But, why does (did?) digg have to grow? I was a dedicated user for the two first years and loved it. There was no better place to get general sci/tech/computer news. I kinda feel like no aggregator stepped in and gave those initials digg users a substitute once the site moved away from news in those areas.
I don't think they really need to wow people on release, the ipad already had plenty of information out there beforehand. Everyone has a fair idea of what to expect from the next iphone, no one is going to be overly surprised that there moving towards the A4 for new mobile devices.
Having worked with a good number of Valley firms, my best experiences have been with the so-called regional firms (i.e., not "Big Four" but not little 1 or 2 person operations either).

A couple of suggestions:

Mohler, Nixon & Williams - I have worked for years with Kent Williams, who is superb in tax, very personable, and my personal CPA as well (http://www.mohlernixon.com/kent_williams.htm) - they have worked over the past couple of decades with a slew of startups, including many early-stage ones.

Burr, Pilger & Mayer - Roy Maynard (http://www.bpmllp.com/display.asp?catid=8,16&pageid=44) is a good guy to work with here - ditto for their startup experience.

Frank Rimerman & Company - they are highly experienced at working especially with VC-funded startups - my main contact there recently left the firm but I am sure many excellent CPAs would be more than eager to help you there.

Pricing is always a factor for a self-funded startup and I don't think any of the above firms are the cheapest (at least in relation to smaller shops) - I would put at least MNW and BPM in the "moderate" range given Valley standards. I have worked as well with many small CPA firms, some quite good, but these may or may not fit your needs in terms of range and depth of expertise, depending on where your company is at.
Interesting idea, but why not just use some disk space on a remote server that you pay for anyway? I use a VPS for this and use cron jobs for rolling S3 backups. (And, I need the VPS anyway.) If someone is not a developer, however, using Dropbox sounds like a good idea.
Not a lot of information either.

However I am pleased that Google is providing a tool that affords a level of transparency to what information is floating around about you from their service. This allows users the ability to better understand what information is being shared and how and gives them the information they need to make a personal choice. Most sites you are flying blind as to what relationships your data has to other sites.
about how much information they are willing to share.
Looks interesting. As a potential member of your target audience, I consider a valuable/essential addition to be tolerances and minimum wall thickness for the various processes. Phrases like "moderate surface detail" and "rough surface finish" are pretty useless.

Examples of models produced in the various technologies, what they cost and their characteristics and surface finish (photos) would be very helpful.

I think you need to reduce the barrier between having an stl file and knowing the cost of a part with given tolerances, strength and surface finish. Perhaps this means offering at least one higher priced, longer lead time service with a fixed cost per volume of material. Shapeways does this very well.
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Ask HN: Why does everyone hate Jason Calacanis?
Lets end the discussion once and for all, Is he worth hating or is he a net positive for startups and entrepreneurs?

UPDATE: I am actually not starting a flame war, im just kind of confused since he promotes startups, he has successfully brought down a PAy to Play outfit that preyed on entrepreneurs, informing people about the culture of startup, help bring up lesson learned from his show. etc. Why is everyone here piling up on him.

How he violates Google is Google's problem, not mine. How he SEOs is and will be his problem not mine. Im just trying to determine if this is a bandwagon thing going on or did he do something more nefarious that i am not aware of.
Some of them are really, really smart people who grew up in situations that didn't allow them to get anywhere except by this kind of manipulation. And they have nothing else to do, every day, for years.

I knew a guy once who had worked as a guard at a maximum-security prison in Kentucky. Their prisoners were this kind of guy - often brilliant. He said you literally couldn't leave a candy wrapper in their cell because they would make a knife of it (not joking, this was his very example, and he knew a guy who'd been cut with just such a knife) and try to escape.

Even knowing they couldn't escape, they just had nothing better to do with their time. And they've got a lot of time.
Most people haven't even yet get their heads around PGP ...
That is really slick. Too bad that old documents can't be automatically converted (wait for that feature, sure it is coming).
Suspicious, eh Apple.
the big hurdle of our age will be getting over this whole democracy idea for the nth time.
Even for a site the size of Reddit, an outsourced emailer is the way to go. I use AuthSMTP.net but there are probably better ones for higher volume.
I hate how everything has shadowing, can't read properly.
"Malamanteau", a self-powered notability?
Adventures in JavaScript number parsing
One can be both a net positive to a particular field and, simultaneously, a contemptible wanker worthy of hatred. I have yet to be convinced that he is a net positive to anything other than a portfolio of contemptible wankers.
I'll never look at my Logitech mice the same way again. Thanks for sharing such a nice story.
Glance at my mouse and, yes, its a Logitech. Thank you for this story.
You imply that works of geniuses should be noticed, but geniuses are so esoteric, rare, and difficult to understand that most wouldn't notice. Since the majority of people don't care about what geniuses care about, it's unlikely they'll appreciate it enough to link to it. If they do link to it, then it's "they" are probably a very small population of people, maybe a handful of other geniuses themselves.

The google page rank algorithm is designed in such a way that the work of geniuses should go unnoticed. Pagerank is designed for the masses. For the masses of consumers specifically.

Google is not designed for the geniuses. It's designed for people who want what everyone else wants.

In the beginning, when google was a tool used primarily by geniuses, then geniuses were the community. They were the masses that used google. Their algorithms now pick selections from a new community. Bloggers who can copy/paste. Bloggers with lots of friends who will link to their posts because the friends are asked to and because other friends reciprocate.

Google doesn't know if you are linking to a web page because you like the web page or because someone who built the web page asked you to link to it or because you are getting paid.

And google doesn't care.
Looks interesting. If only I had a login.
I find it increasingly funny how the fighting between wikipedia editors is actually increasing the notability of this (not so) fictitious neology created by Randall Munroe from XKCD.
That's the thing, I fully expect for-profits to accept bribes and would act accordingly. Assuming that the FDA is some high and mighty agency that only approves safe drugs is the problem.
I agree that it isn't -that- difficult to travel, but I also assume you're from a 1st world country.

For those of us in the 3rd world (Uruguay in my case), it's not "really easy" - it represents possibly a year or several years worth of earnings, plus a lot of diplomatic hassles (haven't been able to visit the US yet because of visa requirements, for example), and the fear of being turned back at the border after all that.

For many people in my country, traveling (possibly on the wedding trip) is the high point in their lives.
I agree that sending probes thought the solar system is interesting, but other planets are not worming.

PS: This is the second time the band has disappeared discovering why that happens may be interesting like the North pole hexagon cloud pattern over Saturn but it's probably not a temperature effect: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060519/full/news060515-17.ht...
How are you doing it this time around?
Jacques, I never took you for a story-teller but that was humane and very touching. May Mr. Sommer rest in blissful peace, my thoughts and positive energies go to his friends and family.
The sad standards of computer-related college degrees
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$40 million in VC money.
It's part of social search:
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-so...
As an owner, I can say that it's only substantial drawback for me, is the inability to access or manipulate shares of any kind. Seeing the world through the iTunes keyhole is infuriating.

I have several hundred gb of media on AFP and cifs shares, and I hate that I have to drag out the lappy to move them around, or even view them. On the upside, lacking cell juice makes cracking the iPad much more attractive than the iPhone.