skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a safe place for them, right?

Fuck no! Double fuck no!

Do people actually think that? That's beyond ignorant/naive. Data in the hands of a for profit corporation, safe? Did you read the terms of service / limitation of warranty? The short version is "fuck you and your data". It's not safe from loss at the whims of market/share holder needs/etc. It's also not safe from being compromised either by internal employees or external hackers. It's also not protected by most of the Bill of Rights (those mostly apply to government vs people not business vs people). It's easily supeoned, if the business doesn't just turn over the data on request.

Safe is encrypted on multiple devices geographically (and preferably jurisdictionally) separated.

The lowest acceptable level that can still be considered safe (a very loose definition of safe) is; a copy in plain/open formats on a device I physically control/hold(my desktop harddrive), and a copy somewhere else. Mom's house, Dropbox, yahoo mail, etc.
Don't forget that these chips are a couple of million times faster than a neuron running at 200Hz. If we forget that the brain has more interconnect, you'd only need about $7,000 dollars worth of chips.
I heard about this a while back. One thing that I haven't heard any talk about is how this affects early employees who may have had options in their company.

It sounds like this could benefit people exercising options. At least, I don't recall reading anything that would preclude these benefits from being applied to option purchases.

Does anyone have any insight into this?
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You wouldn't happen to still have your code? This sounds like an interesting exercise. Maybe you could blog about your implementation and we can compare notes.
In the leaked photo you can see the Toshiba SSD controller right next to the flash chips.
I actually find a lot of good content for debugging purposes in google groups
One thing that's always been really annoying about Mac apps has been the lack of an update system. Most Mac apps check for updates on launch, which is spectacularly annoying, since you're being prompted on the update right when you're most wanting to use the app, and it makes it really hard to make sure you're up to date (since you'd have to manually cycle through your Applications folder).

Compare this to Linux package managers, where a simple "sudo apt-get yada yada" line or two updates everything on your system, whether first party or third party.

Insofar as a Mac App Store solves that problem, great.
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Another good question is what are going to be the limitations on the API?
Yeah, I mentioned RAM only because it looked like a "stick", and hopefully attached like RAM (meaning removable and not with some kind of proprietary connection).
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The $999 model seems to come equipped with a 1.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo. Any ideas why they didn't use the newer i series CPUs? Don't they have better performance per watt?
OK, you are not getting his point. You don't have to explain it to us, all of us here are aware of it.

But, if there are users that don't understand it, than it means that they didn't deliver the message in a proper way. And obviously there are users that didn't get it (I know several cases for erased email accounts).
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I love the little dongle that it comes with as a "software reinstall" -- http://i.imgur.com/Hj8zt.png
I can't see AutoDesk or Adobe going through the App Store, or Apple wanting to carry giant apps.
The bigger question I have is: why would you/anyone move them at all? If you're already selling for OS X and have an avenue for updating your app, are you really going to give up 30% of your revenue to Apple for the same-old? This only works on the iPhone because it's the only way to get software on the device. Unless that's the next step...
I think we'll begin to see a ton of improvements to both App Stores once the Mac App Store is open for submissions, namely: bundles (see iLife), more/unlimited promo codes (for transitioning users from non-App Store to App Store), and customizable "developer" pages (rather than just a list of apps).
No 3G sim card support means instant fail. Seriously, this is a no-brainer feature.
How many customers do you have? I imagine most of the backend powering this will be the same as for iOS, so you can do a couple of things:

1. Give out promo codes. IIRC, you get 100 codes per app version, so if you've got a lot of customers this isn't really feasible.

2. Discount the product for a given time period (ie the first 24 hours you're live) and blast out an email to existing customers. In the backend, you can even set automatic price changes so you don't have to go and manually change it back.

3. Release a new version. Customers are used to paying for major updates. If you give existing customers discounts on updates, see #2.

This brings up another question. In iOS, there is no good way to charge for an update - user buys once and gets free updates for life. Will they change that with the OS X App Store?
the big question is whether the App Store will become the only allowed way to get software onto a Mac. Anybody heard anything? If they disallow all the historical ways I suspect there will be an exodus of disgrunted developers, many going to Linux.
Apple backtracks on netbooks, zoom
The announcements today were interesting because Apple seems to have backtracked on a couple of their philosophies, one of them quite long-standing. The release of a low power, very small new version of the macbook air (basically a netbook, given the old processor, low memory and harddrive space, last generation graphics) is not that much of a surprise. Apple has a history of denigrating product categories it doesn't happen to be in, and then coming in and saying, "well, it turns out the category didn't suck, just our competitors sucked at it, but here's how it should be done." But the repurposing of the "zoom" button as a full screen button may come as a bit of a shock to some mac purists.

For years (decades?) now, the zoom button has been an annoyance to many people that come from Windows, and has had to be explained and defended by Mac purists, who explain the concept behind it and the ergonomics of its use and how it's superior to the Windows maximize button. Of course, it's never a good sign when a user interface concept, no matter how smart it may seem, has to be explained to users- the whole goal of good interface design is for the user to never have to think about it. But this could partly be explained as a result of a predilection for the maximize function caused by previous experience and not an innate confusion.

Perhaps the more significant cause for the zoom button's death is that developers were just so bad at implementing it. A large number of developers themselves never seemed to get what the zoom button was about, and Apple was seemingly unable to force them to get it, or explain it sufficiently. As a result, it's implementation across the platform was so inconsistent as to be exasperating even for the segment of users that understood what it was for. Basically, you had to remember what it did in which apps, and when pushing it was going to do something useful, and when pushing it would do something unexpected. The end result was, most people, including myself, just stayed away from it all together, except in one or two select apps (Safari and iTunes, in my case).

Anyway, whatever the reasons, it seems Apple has given up on the zoom idea many OS's after its introduction, and repurposed the zoom button as a full screen button- much closer to the maximize function of Windows- although I'm sure us Mac purist will think of key reasons why it is not an imitation, but a completely different, better, idea. :D
The "maker" or "developer" is Rovio, which created the app. Chillingo published the app on the app store and was responsible for marketing. Rovio still owns the IP to angry birds (The angry birds franchise is likely worth more than 20 million on its own). The value of Chillingo likely comes from the fact that it published 2 #1 hits (Angry Birds and now Cut the Rope), meaning it has a brand name with iOS gamers.
Can go to 4GB. I'm betting it's still soldered on, and therefore unupgradable.

The SSD may be removable from the look of things.
Got a link handy? Didn't know there was a leaked photo.
I have given up recieving any more money from the amount owed and would not mind giving the files at this point just to get him off my back.

Unfortunately, it also doesn't seem like the client needs the original files anymore. Let me explain. Two weeks ago he offered $150 additional for the files. Clearly he found value in the work I had done so far. Now he has done a complete turnaround and argues that I just "strung along" and did not really do much work. That is obviously not consistent with him offering additional money two weeks ago for the originals.

A lot could have happened in the two weeks he was silent. He could have easily given the jpgs of my work which he did have to someone to recreate it in photoshop.

Thanks for the detailed analysis :)
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Hahaha, I'm dying from the irony! bit.ly etc. are pure evil, and are going to have a much more negative impact when they're gone than Google groups files.
This is just conjecture, but couldn't they simply allow you to give your customers voucher codes? I was under the impression that the iOS app store supported something along those lines.
Why not? I use a similarly spec'd 12", 1440x900, 1.8ghz Lenovo X200s. Sure I dock it and connect dual monitors when I'm at work, but having that resolution plus being able to cart it everywhere and pop it open without hassle makes it a great dev machine. I was able to compile our whole Java webapp, maybe a million lines of code, in the same time as my previous machine - most likely IO was the limiting factor not horsepower. What kind of compilation or other intensive work do you expect to need to be doing that would offset the portability benefits?
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On a related note, does anyone have any details on the sort of deals Chillingo works out with developers? E.g. how much do you pay them and what do they actually do?

I know they've published a number of top 50 apps, but I'm curious as to what cost.
It'll probably work well as a thin client to ssh into a dev server, although the resolution is a little low for my liking (especially the 11")
that makes a lot of sense, thanks.

one area that seems ripe for improvement is after resumes flood in, taking an initial pass and marking which ones you want others to give feedback on, and then tracking email and IM exchanges with and about the applicants.

at Qworky we used tags in a shared gmail account along with cut-and-pasting the IM logs for this which worked okay but even when we just had a couple of jobs open we messed up several times.
> angels usually invest as individuals or via LLCs

LLCs are corporations.

I wonder what the bill actually says.
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Nothing has helped me more with Android than a great Java book (Effective Java.) The rest you can read in the official Android docs or rip apart examples if thats your style. So far this looks like a nice marriage of all of those parts.
actually you put the email into either @SaneTomorrow or @SaneNextWeek depending on whether you want it to reappear in your Inbox tomorrow morning or Monday morning. But it is a cool feature :-)
that's bad assembly-style pseudo-code and thinking. Lisp favors higher-level, functional pseudo-code that readily runs as is!

like in scheme:
(write
(let for ((i 0) (s 0))
(if (> i 100) s
(for (+ 1 i) (+ i s)))))

why would you care for those a, b, or s variables in the first place when all you want is the sum? The above expression writes the sum as computed by a recursive approach using lexical bindings.

you may of course abstract it away into a function:
(define (for from to doit result)
(if (> from to) result
(for (+ 1 from) to doit (doit from result))))

and use it:
(write
(let ((a 0)
(b 100))
(for a b + 0)))

I didn't even need macros yet!
Spec on the Air are up: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html

Factory upgradable processors, SSD, and memory (to 4GB).
My MBP is already 'instant-on'. Open the case and one second later it's awake and ready to go. I'll never understand why people feel the need to shut down their computer after every use.
Those manufacturers are not touting their locked set-top boxes as being an open platform...
1. I hope I can still build my own custom Emacs.app from source and install it.

2. I hope App Store apps will be sandboxed and prevented from polluting the system.

3. I hope Adobe switches to the App Store model, and that it will mean that the behavior of the horrific Creative Suite installer will finally be reigned in (take a look in /Applications/.AdobePatchFiles and check how large it is).
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If he's this angry, he's either a prick, or he's a prick who really needs the original files. Nonetheless, just stay on the course. If he really needs it, he'll pay you for it. you've got the winning card, now work on your poker face.
Also a very good point, thank you for that! :)
Would you care to back your prognostication by short-selling AAPL?
I'm guessing it's to keep costs low.
All the mac users can only hope not..
The fact that they have an app store is that we can see that Jobs is trying to pitch the Mac to the rest of the users as well... normal users wont be able to find apps online, they need a central location to do so.
The thing that struck me was that, why is he doing that? Isnt the "iPad" meant to do all that, and leave the Mac as trucks?
Actually, forget the login screens, it can stay public. This is the first time I've ever launched a site in a 4th level comment, though.

Analytk's a pet real-time blog tracking site I wrote because I was thoroughly dissatisfied with the typical ones. It tracks each post individually, updating every minute to begin with (exponential backoff after 1 hour, not truncated). It also picks up HN and reddit ranks and scores, and tweets. It's only half-finished. Please be nice.
A Top 10 chart is now going to be the biggest marketing lead generator for Mac devs.
If you botch an upgrade of libc on a remote machine, how does a static busybox help, or do you mean to fix the botched upgrade before rebooting?
>I don't understand why the media lets them get away with it.

Because those CEOs/politicians/officials are key news suppliers. And if you abuse your suppliers too much, you get hosed.
The Core i3/i5/i7 are too hot to fit in the Air and have a sucky GPU. Note that it's possible to haver higher performance per watt and higher power at the same time.
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As long as it's not the only way to get software on your Mac -- and I don't really see Apple doing that with their "truck" line of devices since there's probably always going to be obscure stuff that the publishers aren't going to want in the app store.

For that matter, I can't really see Adobe (for example) wanting to give 30% of the cost of Photoshop to Apple.

On the other hand, I think this is potentially fantastic for smaller developers -- it will make it easier for people to find their apps, and as with the iPad/iPhone, that 30% cut to let Apple manage all the billing issues for you might be well worth it.
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You got downvoted not because you're critical of Silicon Valley but because your comment was a useless 3-character "LOL" that adds nothing to the conversation. As soon as you explained why you thought it was laughable you got upvoted.
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Why did this get downvoted? This is a machine meant for portability. Not everywhere has WiFi and when you take into account all the different wifi accounts (like boingo which is impossible to cancel), you end up paying a good portion of what could have been spent on 3G service.

Also, not every country is like the US where wifi is ubiquitous.
My current MBA has an overheating problem because they didn't bother to design with heat dissipation in mind. Going to wait and see if similar complaints come up about current gen.
Will there be an approval process and what will it look like?
It's a big deal in that it's one further step towards making phone carriers irrelevant.
Too many people are calling this thing overpriced, but remember that a 64GB iPad is $699. Then, in addition, you're getting a full OS, a stronger processor, a dedicated graphics chip, and this last one's dumb, but you're getting a keyboard too.

So I think pricing is spot-on for the 11" specs. If I replace my primary machine (a first-gen Macbook) with this, though, it would need to be the 13". The 11" seems like a secondary machine.

One question, though: isn't instant start-up trivial for a laptop?
> One hypothesis might be that a more long-lasting bill is being drafted, and this an interim solution.

A more realistic hypothesis is that they've figured out that a long term approach is dumb. A bill that has to be renewed every six months gives folks two reasons a year to "help" the legislators.

Remember, "reform" means "we need to get more money from supporters".
The best thing you can get out of this is a learning experience. As a freelancer, I always insisted that I don't work until I've been paid in advance. If that's a 50% initial down payment or a series of partial payments, get them first, then work toward the milestone they represent. Have them sign that these payments are non-refundable. It's so easy to get burned by clients refusing to pay, but if you have the money you have the power. If he had already paid you $300 and you decided he owed you $273 of it, you could give him back the $27 and call it done. If a client refuses to put down deposits in advance, I wouldn't trust them.

Some clients are jackasses - that's just a simple fact. I've noticed that the less you charge, the higher your chances of running into one. Fortunately, for small amounts it's pretty reasonable to ask for 50% down up front. It allows you a last resort. If you really can't come to an agreement, you can say I'm sorry, you're not living up to your end of the contract, and so I'm keeping your deposit and if you want to continue development we'll have to work out a separate agreement. I've had to do this a few times and while it's unfortunate at least I'm not out any money. At this point I generally give them all of the files and everything that's been produced up to that point and just ignore any more angry communications.
Apache has more restrictions than the BSD license ... why are you grouping the two of them together?
Looks like USB without the box around the contacts.
I have a great idea for how to do one, but not nearly enough time to make it happen. :(
Wow, an official Mac OS X reinstall USB key:

http://images.apple.com/macbookair/images/specs_flashdrive_2...
Buying a separate data plan for your laptop is a no-brainer? I've already paid for 3G data; I'm not paying again.
So you're now taking the position that how open Android is can depend upon how they have marketed their openness, and how misleadingly they may have done so? That's nonsense. At the end of the day, "fork it, mod it, build it, deploy it to any device that will run it" still applies. That's unavoidably and factually open. Radically so, given where this particular market was just 3-4 years ago.

I'm astonished at how muddled and downright bizarre the argumentation on these threads gets. Yes, they don't develop future platform versions in the open, they just make delayed code dumps. Annoying. But hardly "open"-negating. The process may not be open - the deliverables are. And all of the usual advantages of that open are in full effect with Android and its many, many active mods.

Yes, carriers are free to add unremovable shovelware, to try and prevent flashing with the aid of the hardware manufacturers - all that nasty stuff they are free to do with any apache/bsd-licensed codebase. It's very hard to understand how this is Google's fault, or why it somehow renders the underlying platform "not open". Should they have stridently disallowed such behavior from day 1? I'm guessing that would have left them with a lot fewer partners, and a go-nowhere platform, but hey, at least they would have been pure as the driven snow ideologically.

Saying with a straight face that Android is "not open", "not meaningfully more open than iOS", "nothing like what we would traditionally call open-source", and so on is ridiculous hyperbole. The only interest I take out of these instant train wreck threads is in playing a game: guess at what horses individual commenters have in the mobile race, that their perceptions can become so severely distorted.
I agree that the 30% chunk taken by Apple is a bit large. For iOS, the huge draw (apart from the obvious "it's the only way") is that your pool of potential customers is enormous. You give up 30% of your revenue in exchange for making your software easily available to millions of people.

I'd say try finding a software publisher that will give you a deal anywhere near that good, but if you're already distributing your software electronically...
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I think the savings in dealing with credit card processing / paypal along with not having to maintain my own updates. Bandwidth / Hosting is not a small issue.
Apple's developer site member center is down. They'll probably be posting information later today.
interesting.. they renamed the iSight -> "FaceTime camera"
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But when your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be forever young and vital at any age.
Because you want to marketing of the app store and don't want to maintain two versions. Also, if Apple has built in copy protection and distribution that's a big advantage (it might not for this new store).
All those people can use Skype. Skype is a more well known brand than FaceTime currently. Plus they can Skype their Windows buddies, but they can't FaceTime them.

What was with the multiple references to a "FaceTime Camera" anyway? I'm assuming it's not FaceTime only. I wouldn't call my Macbooks cam a "Skype Camera" either...
Accounts are tied to the email address on your Apple ID. Interesting way of getting around having to create another IM account.
This is kind of interesting to me as an owner of a couple older Minis: is Apple signalling that 10.7 will run fine on a lower end Core 2 Duo?