skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your resume says that you went to Columbia College (the undergraduate college of Columbia University) when you actually went to the School of General studies then you are lying, pure and simple. Now maybe you can get away with it and maybe many employers do not know the difference, but many do and the two do not look the same. College education at the elite level falls in line with the signaling model of education. If you get into Columbia College as an undergraduate it doesn't matter to many employers what you actually learned, its merely a signal for other things--like that you can learn reasonably easily, that you value education, that you're a relatively smart person, etc. If you go to a general studies program that signal, at least to those who know, is greatly diminished. I can earn an online BA from the Continuing Education School of Harvard University, does that seem the same to you as attending Harvard College?
Aww, I was totally expecting something a la padmapper.com but with cats.
Low earth orbit satellite constellations, especially using cheap picosats, also have a good chance of being lucrative. To date, they've been fiascoes (iridium, globalstar), but given a cheap RAMAC launcher to put $250k delivered cost satellites up, it should be feasible to do something like global EDGE coverage. The biggest issue is RF engineering (to get small antennas and tx power on both sides, maximum frequency reuse) and political (getting spectrum; steal it back from the 2.3ghz "we're a satellite network but operating entirely terrestrially" network).
Yeah the fact that it tracks the use of inhalers is very clever. It provides a much more rich history of use to help doctors decide the best way to manage their patients. Currently medications for asthmatics are determined by a asthma severity scale (symptom frequency, night time attacks, etc) - so a more fine-grained analytics would be interesting.

I would think this approach would work well if applied to other diseases where the frequency that the patient takes the medication is tied to symptoms - chest pain/nitroglycerin or acid-reflux/antacids are a couple of examples.
I'm using Magit, it's perfectly fine for my uses (commit, merge, rebase, stash, and branching - usually very little deep plumbing).

It has good documentation, I can only recommend it.

Sadly, I can't compare it to the others you listed, as Magit was the first one I tried, and never felt any need to try another.
Channeling the Piano Man: a preview of the Rock Band 3 keyboard
Will Social Media Produce More Entrepreneurs?
Type rendering: web browsers
Heat it to room temperature, squeeze it to a pressure of 1 atmosphere, and the ice should just melt and run out the bottom.

Or just heat it until the water sublimates, then collect the vapour and cool back down to liquid/solid.

I guess it depends on your constraints vis a vis time, energy and amount of equipment you want to bring to the moon. It doesn't sound too tricky, but the main part is that you have to bring the dirt "indoors".
Deploying new code should never be an "adventure". It should be a simple, replicable process that allows you to safely stop or rollback at any given time. It should have enough checks in place that the impact from any given mistake is minimized. There should never be any "oh shit" moments.
The clause says deprecated and optional technologies will be banned. So sorry but if MacRuby is not part of the OS, then it is pretty clear it is optional so it will not be allowed on the appstore.

And it is completely useless to think about what makes sense or doesn't when talking about the appstore. The iOS app-store forbids apps that were made with particular compilers even if they are submitted in app-store allowed form. Does that make sense?
Seeing Clojure deploy on LLVM would be a moment worthy of cracking open some expensive champagne, personally.
Skip w3schools (seriously). Skip websites on specific stuff. There is, right now, really only one good resource to get your started:

The Opera Web Standards Curriculum. It is the only thing that takes you from A to Z with 100% up to date correct information.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/wsc/
I agree with the conclusion, but I don't think the argument is presented all that well:

This advice might be good for user-facing web applications. But if you’re building XaaS, marginal features are awesome. That’s because when you’re a service, what’s marginal to one user might be core to another.

I don't think this is any less true in user-facing applications than it is in APIs. It seems to me that the main difference is that user-facing apps tend to be solving higher-level problems (eg. project management vs encoding video).

Our job is to provide powerful tools and let our users decide what options matter.

37signals also listens to users, but the total number of users per revenue dollar is higher, the scope of the usage is wider, and the cost profile (development, maintenance and cognitive overhead) tends to be different. In either case any new feature requires a cost-benefit analysis.

But APIs are different. An API with 60 options makes for longer documentation, certainly. But if the options are well-chosen and well-documented, an API with 60 options is barely more complex than an API with 20 options.

This is certainly true for options that are simply wrapping command-line options of open source components. However if you're implementing code on the back-end, these options can easily add complexity to the whole system.

It's true that a checkbox in a GUI is a much higher burden on the user than an option in service API documentation, but then again a service already starts with an order of magnitude higher usability burden than a GUI. This is of course because APIs are designed to be coded against, so the amount of user effort expended is amortized over hundreds or thousands of compute hours.

I'm sure the author understands all this, but it just didn't quite come out of the article.
It's unclear if you're making a projection about the future or mistaken about the present, but Apple's Mac dev tools have been zero-cost for years. Nothing about that changed yesterday.
That would have been written "The langauge I wish Go had been"
Heat management also matters for at least two reasons. Directly, people don't want to be burned by their laptops. Indirectly, overheating tends to lead to component failures, and people care about reliability.
It seems that this is just a PR move by Facebook... that will hopefully be equally as misunderstood by the media and general public as the original problem is in itself. I don't see how the sharing of UID's is any different/worse than cookies that are persistent on users computers other than the fact that users may be less aware of them, and i guess they're not associated with a store of personal information.

I think that the perception is that if a business gets my Facebook UID, they have access to my information - which is not true, they can't retrieve any more information than you publicly make available.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what the big issue is all about though.
I do. No window management.

The recent praise full-screen applications got at the 10.7 sneak peek doesn't resonate with me, but perhaps it will with others. What I want are applications that intelligently manage screen real estate themselves. My thoughts on this are still somewhat unpolished, but what I'd really like to see is automatic management based on need and importance. Clear, standard notifications (and as few as possible), cooperation between apps when two or more run on the screen, and a clear way to navigate between them. All the while there would be no title bars or min/max/close buttons to be found.

This isn't a call for more iOS in OS X (although it seems to be going that way) so much as it is a call to acknowledge the limitations of user ability and patience. It's something I think about a lot.
Max, Don't let one person's opinion be a judgment on you by the entire HN community.
I, for one love your blog and you comments here. I may not agree with all your comments but you provide a different perspective and you definitely don't mind ruffling a few feathers :). Keep up the good work.
No easter eggs... That rules out most Adobe apps then.
I just don't feel that the AppStore is all that different from package managers on Linux.

If you need something, you run Synaptic/yum/aptitude/whatever. Sometimes, you can't find what you're looking for and you go elsewhere.

Can you imagine Ubuntu without Synaptic? Dell selling Ubuntu like that?

Did people complain about the "Dumbing Down of Linux" when package managers showed up?
I've been using Windows 7 since its RC release, well over a year now. I use OSX, too. Windows 7 has been amazing, MS really got it right this time, after the Vista disaster. Windows 7 rocks!
Blue whales never interested me as a child.

Relevance is subjective, what seems important to me might seem unimportant to someone else, and vice versa.

Not all nerds behave the same way, we have different personalities.

I for one didn't relate to most of what that article claimed. Actually I find it rather offensive that someone makes assumptions about me based on his observation about himself.

I find the MBTI to be a better tool to understand behavior than a general stereotype like "nerd". Not all nerds share the same type.

Though I do think that most entrepreneurial types of people tend to be xNxP. But nerds and entrepreneurs are not necessarily the same thing at all.
Conditional deployment with the ability to control the level of deployment incrementally is a hugely powerful tool. Twitter and amazon both use them, at least for higher risk changes. The ability to "roll back" a deployment completely at the press of a button with a configuration change with no actual running bits changing is very potent.
The difference is, Azure locks you into a closed platform.
I hate to be the guy who quotes PG, but here:http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

I was introduced to this in college, for a long time I thought PG was an art scholar...

Preference in taste is subjective, but taste itself speaks to a higher nature of man; the best designed things are designed for the ages.

The greeks had great taste in form and proportion, but bad taste in color (as we now know).
Your analysis in #5 isn't strictly comparable. Intel fabricates semiconductors, ARM does not. Intel designs whole chips, ARM designs cores. To get good numbers here, you would need to separate out only the CPU design groups accounting information from Intel, or somehow isolate the integration and fab contributions of companies like Qualcomm/TI/Samsung/TSMC/etc... and add it to the "ARM" total.

But your broader point, that the desktop CPU market is at or near its peak, is I think spot on.
So true. In fact, I also believe the word "founders" implies a glorified version of what at the end of the day simply are "authors", or to suit better this site: "hackers".
The End of x86?
Aren't we doing that already? #climatechange #zing?
Those are all quite reasonable questions. The biggest difference was in not living the carefree life many people seem to think college should be -- but I suspect people on Hacker News don't necessarily fall into that mindset to the same extent the general population might. As part of that, I had to actually consciously decide how to spend my time. Also, I chose a major (Business Administration) that interested me but was certainly easier to accommodate the tips I gave than something like an engineering degree would have been.

I chased girls enough to find one I wanted to marry, planned a wedding, and got married before graduating. I played golf, skiied, went to concerts/movies, watched TV (usually while doing homework), played video games (TF2!), did programming/development for fun, etc.
They appear to have deleted that from the page.
Ya, it appears so. I wonder what their methodology was.
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Netflix says next quarter a majority will stream more video than watched on DVD
It targets javascript with Jake Donham's ocamljs.
That might have been when WebObjects was still using Objective-C.
Since we're being pedantic...

What the human race perceives as creativity is largely mashup of what others have done in a new way. Mozart? Derivative of music played by instruments. Van Gogh? Derivative of people painting on canvases.

Once you start being too picky about what an idea is, you start to lose sight of what makes the idea awesome or why creation is so much fun in the first place.

Highly relevant to this: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
I suspect most professors would be happy to have an extra student who really wants to be there, even if that student isn't actually a student.
It's not 'what,' it's 'how much.' Millions of years worth of metals, mostly.
Graphic novel piracy on 4chan leads to massive spike in sales
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I was of the understanding that Flash is only banned from iOS until Adobe can prove that it runs cleanly and efficiently.
Isn't it a few years late to ask this?
It's pretty common to jam smaller ad units together -- e.g., put four small text ads in a 728x90 pixel leaderboard. But you're talking about something different.

If I were an advertiser, I guess what I'd ask you is why I'd want dilute my message by sharing an ad with four others, when the cost barriers are so low for getting my message out on my own. How would I know all the traffic/interest would go to one of the other four?

One common application for this kind of thing is something like click arbitrage -- go find a set of like offers which offer incentives for clicks, and try to drive traffic to them at a low cost.
Black = Porno. There's some UI guidance you don't see every day!
Google accused of silently discontinuing pages, files. Official announcement.
Of course, it would make sense if you only paid for the 'extra' charges if you went over. It would be kind of sneaky if they charged you for the whole thing if you went over.
I hope they do clarify this.
Anil Dash on types of app stores
So your counter argument is a bulleted feature comparison then?

Glad I typed that up front so you wouldn't miss it.

This review http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-air/4505-3121_...

Directly compares it to these devices
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-tz150n-black/4505-...

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-portege-r500-s5002/4...

Is that better?

Or are you purely down to just pure fundamentalism, "I'll ignore the stuff that's better about everything you've shown me and call it immaterial and nitpick on the lack of some other feature that's only important in the marketing blurbs put out by Apple (type of screen, SSD, trackpad, material selection of the hinge)".

Tell you what, why don't you go do some research on your own. It's not like it's hard to find better spec'd devices for cheaper than pretty much anything in Apple's lineup. That's a silly debate to have.

The question is, does what Apple offer suit the needs of its users? I'm describing my own personal needs. But I'm not doing anything particularly weird. Just shooting photos. I've also since notice it doesn't even have an SD card slot so I have to rely on the slower USB connection from my camera (and carry around yet another cable). And yet the 11" completely doesn't fulfill my rather modest requirements, even at 3x as much as something that minimally does.

So taking pictures is right out.

What can I do with it? Apple's own marketing copy pretty much describes hauling it around for writing stuff (blogs, slides, etc.). I suppose one can use a web browser with it. So there you go...the description of a netbook. That's Apple's expected use case for the 11" MBA. Welcome to $1200 netbook land.

But at least it's thin! Because it was always so hard to find space in my backpack for my 1.14" thick netbook. Man, the number of times I've lamented, "if only I could get half of that thickness back! I could jam another dozen sheets of paper in there!"

Seriously, this isn't religion, it's a computer. Come off it and drop the fundamentalism.
Agree. Discovery is an issue.

Whenever Macheist rolls around, the real upside for me is discovering useful apps I otherwise would not have heard of.
What does his being a college freshman have to do with the argument? I call ad hominem.
I doubt you'll have to pay to develop for Mac, the 99$ are for joining the developer program that allows you to get your apps on the App Store (Mac or iOS). Xcode, compilers and the possibility to run and sell your programs via other means will still be free.
Things you can do with a small lake on the Moon:

* Create Oxygen and potable water for life support system, saving having to ship that from Earth.

* Build greenhouses with artificial lighting to grow in situ foods, saving having to ship that from Earth and vastly increasing the self-reliance of a Moon base.

* Create a rocket propellant factory (LH2 and LOX are a quite useful and indeed common propellant for exo-atmospheric spaceflight).

This means that after you set up the initial moon base and infrastructure later missions can skip sending as much water, Oxygen, and food. And, much more importantly, don't have to send a fully fueled return vehicle. Given the exponential nature of the rocket equation, this is huge.
now, I'm not an accountant either, but the whole idea behind the accounting standards is to prevent cheating, right? so if you can get around that by using a shell corporation, the accounting standard is broken.
I think you have a typo in there:

today AMD has a price to earnings ratio of 77.93

should be ARM Holdings, right?
This is kind of "putting all your eggs in one basket", though. If we're going to be terraforming and altering global or continental environs, we might as well do so on the Moon or Mars so that we have some insurance in case of nuclear war/meteor/other apocalyptic death scenarios.
Arrandale is a weird stopgap chip for Intel. Necessary, but not the one I'd look at to see if the company is at an inflection point.

With that said, Intel is always in these weird disruption points. Intel faced similiar talk against RISC, again AMD64, against ARM -- in the past, and Intel against ATI/NVidia.

Probably of all tech companies, Intel is the one I'd be most hardpressed to bet against in their core market.
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mmmm, nothing like watching how bacon is made:

http://devour.com/video/how-bacon-is-made/

and its cousin, lardo:

http://aveceric.com/wp/gallery/videos/season-two/episode-thr...
I haven't gotten super in depth with containers (zones or ldoms) but I don't think they inherently offer nearly as much flexibility as vmware.

Not to mention Solaris 10 can be...interesting.
I'd like something that plugs into dvc-mode, but after my last foray with that I've pretty much given up on doing my git stuff from any interface that isn't the CLI.

Do any of these do decent integration with git-svn?
Well, I think that using the Amazon API you could monitor that stuff and shut it all down if you exceeded the limits, but you'd have to program all of that to happen.

I agree, it would be nice if amazon could allow you to put some hard limits on all of the AWS services. That's why I haven't used AWS yet - I'm afraid of that 10K bill if I should 'accidentally' hit the front page of Digg/Reddit/HN.
Object Orientation is a design philosophy, not a concrete process or mechanism.

Its major principle is encapsulation; things outside of me don't need to know about my internal workings, just my external appearance. This leads to abstraction; if I externally appear just like that other guy, things outside of me can pretend we're the same even if we have different internal workings.

Beyond those concepts, we begin to get into implementation.

Classes, inheritance, and polymorphism are implementation. You can apply OO principles without them. They just happen to be the traditional face of OO.

That may be why you're struggling to find a definition that makes sense. Too often we use the implementation to discuss the philosophy.

Don't get hung up on a definition. It's like trying to define love, art, or pornography.

Keep asking and arguing about it though. That's a good way to learn it.
Well Opera has gone Cocoa since 10.5 and feels much more native than it used to.

Still, I wish it had the same level of polish as Chrome does on OS X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Computation...
The real meat of it appears to be based around the new (to me, anyway) facetime:// protocol, which I'm assuming FaceTime.app handles. Take a look at the sessions/queue view for more.
To be fair, its been tried a couple of times to build really customizable machines. It is just more expensive from a manufacturing point of view and the market is never really there.

Customizable machines are a billion dollar industry, chances are, you're sitting in front of one right now. It's not a matter of making a customizable machine, we know how to do that. It's a matter of actually allowing the user to customize things, which can be done by allowing core components to be swapped out for alternatives. In this context, the customization doesn't need to be complete/absolute, it just needs to recognize that different users have different needs and work differently. A consumer/home user may find the grid of icons on the iPhone screen to be easy to use, but the business user may want a calendar or email listing on their home screen (interestingly enough, we laugh at the members of both of these groups who end up with a massive grid of icons on their desktops, which is obviously bad for usability ("The link to the website was at the tip of the penis!" -- Sales Guy vs Web Dude). And Android offers the capability for apps to provide this functionality, but Android isn't considered to have Good Design(tm) (or is at least "less" than Apple's design) despite this capability.
I actually like the name. Not sure why, probably because I like crushing things.
Yes, it was sarcastic snark pointing out that all their selling now is a high priced netbook -- even after Jobs shat all over the form factor for the last year. It was the first comment here noticing that at the time.
This is just painfully stupid. Flash, in the sense of memory, isn't an Apple neologism. It's been around for years.

Jobs was making a joke, and deflecting a question he didn't want to address on the call. Hell, half the conflict with Adobe is no longer an issue - Apple dropped the restriction preventing Adobe's Flash-to-iOS-app tool from being used.
Good point on the whole chips versus the cores. Does anyone have any rough estimates on this? As a company, if I licensed the latest generation ARM processor (e.g., Cortex-A15) and then factored in any additional design and manufacturing costs (e.g., via a foundry), what would be the total cost advantage of using a Cortex-A15 versus a comparable Intel Atom chip?
I don't know about that. Anybody can package any software they want in a file that will be read and installed by the package manager. If you want to have something installed on Ubuntu, just package it in a proper .deb file and you can distribute that file any way you want. Once your user/customer gets a hold of the .deb file, all they need to do is double click it and your software gets installed by the package manager. There is no review process, there are no rejections, nobody takes a cut of your fees.
Well, I thought the competition was for developers as in indie-developers and not startups! Here is what the description from contest page says -

"We've partnered with Union Square Ventures, who are investors in Twilio, to give one developer the opportunity to travel to New York City to meet with Fred Wilson, Albert Wenger, and Brad Burnham."

This doesn't seem to be a appropriate winner to me. Please note, I'm not demeaning Asthmapolis' value proposition. I'm just saying, probably they are better suited for TechCrunch Disrupt kind of competiion as a startup, and not developer contests!