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Anyone remember the early 386 computers that had the early chips, like the Compaq DeskPro 386?
The closest thing I've seen is a Zii Egg: they just released an Android 2.1 build to developers.
what about your statement is supported by their actual actions in the recent years? who are their actual customers, searchers or adwords bidders? They simply need to provide a decent enough search experience to keep users coming back so they can keep adwords bidders participating. It's their entire business model.
Gorgeous design (and speedy interface)! When I searched for a couple of my npm modules, however, I couldn't find them ("calais" is one). A small wishlist of stuff I'd love to see in an online npm index: related modules, rating, and comments.
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When did I say that he wanted my sympathy? I explained something, from my point of view, about the character of the tale -- which is pretty much what everyone else here is doing, when not just asking questions. Are you such a fan of the man that you cannot accept that? Am I not allowed to engage in discussion here just because my opinion of how he came off in the story differs from yours?

> Full-circle: you came off like an ass.

Fair enough. Maybe it looks that way to you. Too bad for me.

Your "sit down and shut up" routine makes you look a bit worse than merely abrasive judgment of his self-portrayal, though -- at least in my opinion.
Oh? Do you really think my writing here was engaging and brutally honest? Thank you. I strive to achieve that tone in my writing -- which you appeared to achieve so naturally and with such ease in your self-deprecating tale.

I appreciate the compliment, even if what you meant was insult.
A 4chan board: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#.2Fb.2F
Should've gotten a prenup!
Correct. Paul Carr's words:

"I have no idea how any of this will affect TechCrunch. So far AOL has kept true to its promise not to interfere with our editorial and there’s no reason to suppose that will change under Huffington. That said, it would be idiotic to think that our parents’ content strategy – particularly the SEO stuff – won’t have annoying trickle-down consequences for all of us in the long term."

[edit- Corrected source of the quote.]
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How long would it take AOL to make $315 million + profit from HuffPost?
This is exactly why these are amazing. He took a group activism site that basically couldn't make anything and turned it into the fastest growing company in the history of the world. They turned down a $6 billion offer and paid for all these superbowl ads.

The real irony here is people's principles don't actually matter. People can't help themselves and will take saving $15 on a dinner millions of times over rather than offering it up to any of their principles or supposedly lofty morals. Mason discovered the real secret here which is it doesn't matter which moral road you're on people can't help themselves.

The reason people think these are crass is that they can't deal with the realization of their own moral corruption and hypocrisy. These commercials are a statement about the same people who are lambasting them. They got trolled and the more they rage the more they out themselves for the ruinous morally crippled savages that they truly are.
I took Gabriel Weinberg's Advice and cloned ThreeWords.Me with Pictures
This is an experiment to see if I could make something "inherently viral".

http://mybestpic.org/lTmQAr

Let me know if you have any suggestions toward that end.

It's based on Gabriel's post from about a week ago:
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/if-i-were-starting-out-i-would-clone-threewordsme.html

He already gave me some good advice: let people import their facebook photos with facebook connect. Will be adding that soon.
I'd call it more a merger of mediocrities.
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Clickable: http://mybestpic.org/lTmQAr

or

http://mybestpic.org
I'm pretty surprised that Google was allowing such blatantly obvious XSS attack vectors.
> Everybody Love's Raymond.

See http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
Do folks want details? I'll translate if there is interest, but have some real work to do first.
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Bribie Island Flowers is one of the major online florist who delivered flowers throughout Australia. Here you can buy and order flowers which suit to different occasion like birthday, new baby, get well, sympathy, romance, anniversary etc.
The app shows you the list of your friends sorted by the rank of the University they attended.

Here is a link to a snapshot with pictures and names blurred to hide identity of my friends :)

http://twitpic.com/3xc5jp
Are Japanese salaries really that low?

Almost makes it worth outsourcing at the price.
On the other hand, the author explicitly said to his agent "Find out why she rejected it," speaking of Hollis. That suggests the author, at least, did not know why.
I would replace (x)html with html5 wherever mentioned though. Nice guide overall.
I don't know if this a good thing or bad.

First AOL is a giant when it comes to news these days. Along with Fox, CNN and MSNBC. I guess this allows for another competitor to hit the market. But also allows for News to be under control again by a large corporation and that corporations views on how the world should be reported.

I would gladly see Huff Post move to Television and Maybe more investigative like Reuters.

Those area's would gladly and happily be invested in, if I owned a large New Corp.
> When AOL merged with Time-Warner

AFAIK, AOL went and bought Time Warner, the deal didn't work out though.
Tim Armstrong is getting AOL to do all the deals that Bartz should be doing at Yahoo.
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This might explain why I've never personally seen a 386, only plenty of 486's
Very nice job. The design is incredibly clean and functional.
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They're apparently pretty well locked down, device-wise. So presently you can choose either a crappy Samsung Android device or this reasonable competent device.
The whole discussion of the IBM PS/2 line brought back some memories. My first real job out of school was at an IBM shop, with loads of older PS/2s, weirdly fitted out with MCA AppleTalk cards.
> And MapQuest still has the greatest market share somehow...

No. Google maps has the greatest market share. Mapquest is #2.

Disclaimer: I'm interning at MapQuest.
. . . and while I do not currently have a life insurance policy, I did at one time -- and the exception for suicide never went away on that policy.
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>I don't find it nearly as insulting.
I don't find these ads insulting at all, I find them distasteful.
Indeed; I have a DS1052E myself and did the 100MHz software hack. Instructions are here:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=553.0

Basically, Rigol spec'd out a 100MHz scope and then crippled it in software to have a cheaper 50MHz model to sell without having two separate hardware lines.
I read this article this morning. I wonder why they didn't launch one satellite into Orbit A, wait 6 months[1], then launch the second satellite into Orbit A, but from the other side of the sun. Then, once they maneuvered into position, we'd have satellites stationed on both sides permanently.

It seems like that would be a lot faster, and would also ensure we can maintain our full view of the sun for a long period of time.

[1]Or however long it would take to get to the opposite side of the sun, accounting for the first satellite's movements.
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I think it is good idea for static sites, for everything else you would be rediscovering fabric and similar tools.
Take a look at Vedic Mathematics http://www.vedicmaths.org/introduction/tutorial/tutorial.asp. There are sixteen Sutras or principles that provide interesting hacks for quick "in your head" Arithmetic.
The fact that the solar system has sat around for 4 billion years without being eaten by Von Neumann machines makes me pretty certain that we're alone

Were these your words, or not?

You're projecting human flaws and attributes on an advanced race that would, by necessity, be almost nothing like humans. It simply does not follow that because the solar system has not (yet) been turned into grey goo, we must be alone in the galaxy.
Look, I admire your optimism but General AI has been a pipedream for almost 60 years now and though we build at an insane rate, the singularity is so far away that it doesn't matter.
Nicely done. It renders beautifully on my Android. Smooth animation to boot, and it's not even version 1.
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Actually that was only true in a very short span of time in the fifties and sixties because there was a bubble in manufacturing since Europe and Japan needed to be rebuild, in some cases almost from scratch.

Compare today with a hundred years ago, and those people had it far worse.
This skips the very first step that most designers would do: It was a process called "specing the type" — a graphic designer and/or art director would mark up the copy by hand writing notes on the typeface, leading, column width, etc. It should also be noted that for ad agencies there were special services to just set headlines with exotic faces that most typesetters wouldn't have.
I bought a $50 microcontroller based DMM (much better than "dumb" dmms) from circuit specialists forever ago here:
http://circuitspecialists.com/prod.itml/icOid/9455
It works really good. Comparable to fluke handhelds but not in the same league as the fluke 4/5 digit bench DMMs.

Keithley stuff is great too, more science based though. I've used everything from their picoammeters to their general purpose DMMs.
Engadget's impression of the Archos 70 and 101:

"incredibly chintzy feel [...] the 70 and 101 look and feel very cheap. Both are primarily made of black plastic [...] We just don't have much confidence in the longevity of the device [...] In hand, the materials feel far from solid, and even after wrapping it in a scarf, we worried about keeping it safe from bumps and bruises in our bag. [...] As you'd expect, the cheap make isn't limited to the surrounding parts of the tablet -- the plastic displays on the 70 and 101 suffer from the same issues. We weren't expecting Gorilla Glass quality here, but both of them are flimsy and when pressed firmly, they start to cave in quite a bit. [...] vertical viewing angles are incredibly bad. Tilting the screens slightly off axis to about 30-degrees caused a ton of color distortion, and if you happen to be standing above the displays while they are propped up on the kickstands, it's nearly impossible to see what is on screen. [...] The VGA cameras on both tablets are incredibly sluggish, and when we finally were able to snap some stills, they came out blurry and grainy. Similarly, when we shot some video, the footage was very choppy and the audio wasn't in sync with the video at all."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/24/archos-70-and-101-interne...
I think there is one, with a similar design to HN. I can't seem to recall the site's name though. Sorry.
> When you stop believing in polemics and conventional wisdom and start trying to look at what really is, you'll find a lot of unusual stuff.

That's good advice regardless of the subject.
Does the CPI take into account that cars have improved in fuel economy, that TVS are now in color and with a remote control, not to mention a lot bigger?

Does the CPI take into account that a wristwatch today has more power than all IBMs computers in the mid sixties?

Does the CPI take into account that $X that either didn't exist then, or has been so improved that it wouldn't be recognized?

Try to compare it with the M3 money supply, shifted about 18 months ahead and that should give a much better idea of the real means of inflation.
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No, they don't. They make money mostly by ads.
No. But you can return it to Adobe for a full refund. The Secret Service will even hand deliver the check.
Are you aware that getting responses never is equivalent to being ignored, at least in most people's minds? On what planet do you live where people carry on a relationship that involves dead silence on one side?
However, the Xoom has beefier (i.e. costlier) hardware than the iPad:

* 1 GB vs 256 MB RAM
* 1 GHz dual-core vs 1 GHz single-core processor
* 10.1" 1280×800 vs 9.7" 1024x768 display
* 2 cameras vs 0
* and a freakin' barometer?!

But how much will these hardware improvements affect Joe Consumer's purchasing decision when he wants read Facebook and play Angry Birds?
I do not need my inbox filled with the same crap that appears on Facebook. My email is for other purposes (like actual personal, direct contact, in the case of the address I give my real-world friends). Facebook is designed like a public feeding trough.
The study claims to have "some interesting practical and theoretical implications, for example with regard to recently revived debates about single-sex vs. coed schools." Perhaps, but my impression is that the study consists of situations where the "confederates" are not previously acquainted, which would not likely be the case in a school setting.
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Your comments reminds me of the Kardashev scale for measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

"These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization"
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This is only a problem if you believe that you only have a boolean answer. Western philosophy loves setting up these weird one-or-the-other answers to questions and then spending decades dancing around the real answer which is: both or neither at the same time. Typically comes from also removing the context and timing of asking the question.

I'd answer the above question: "They are both the original ship, and not the original at the same time." But, this baffles people who believe that you can't be two things at once, even though the majority of truly interesting phenomena in the world are complex enough that they fit into this answer.

Another classic done this way is: "A farmer looks at a painted cut-out of a milk cow far away against a tree and mistakes it for a cow. Is it a cow or is it not a cow." Again, why can't it be both. At that moment in time, given the context of a farmer, it's a cow because he believes it and it's not a cow because it's just a painting of one.

I also think this need to shove everything into a boolean algebra problem is why most software is difficult. If you're supposed to model the real world then it'd be nice to not have to turn everything into True and False.
This isn't from Logicomix. Bertrand Russell himself originally sketched out the problem in terms of books and index books. I forget which paper, but it is in the complete collected papers.
If someone uploaded a photo of her from her website, presumably one she held the copyright in, wouldn't she have been better off trying to get the photograph taken down on the grounds that it is pirated?

I'm sure Facebook responds to DMCA takedown requests reasonably promptly - and once a human is aware of the account being a fake, they would undoubtedly want to take the whole profile down too.
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This reminds me of the good ol' days of the "Turbo" button on computers. Seriously, why would anyone purposefully half the clock speed of their processor?
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IMO Finding live vulnerabilities (with a passion!) outweighs most scripted interviews.
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You still haven't said what the project DOES! Okay, fine, it picks a movie from somebody's netflix list. But HOW does it pick it? At random? Top of the list? Bottom of the list? Highest star rating? Can you at least give people a HINT as to what makes your project useful or fun or even "simple" compared to the alternative of picking a movie from the list ourselves? (I regard picking movies myself more "simple" because it doesn't require bookmarking a new site or trusting random strangers with my account info.)
I just got started on HN recently. This weekend alone I've probably read >70 HN stories. I'm taking time I should've been studying and working to do them. This story was exactly what I needed to break that vicious cycle.

Thank you.
In the Tibet video, I think it's not even a Tibetan restaurant, mre like a a Mongolian one.
Now that is a teddybear hack!
Doing circuit board layout and ordering samples online for my next embedded electronics project.
I don't think the company handling the campaign went out of their way to offend the customer base. It is must likely that they did exactly what Groupon told them to do. Groupon and their CEO are know for this kind of irreverent humor. It's the image they like to portray.
Thank you. I too read that book as a child but I couldn't remember what it was called.

The only beef I had with the idea in it was that it was difficult to understand why they worked, compared to standard multiplication.
The Viewsonic gTablet has no 3G radio, half the RAM size (512MB) of the Xoom, and half the storage capacity (16GB).

The gTablet has a 1.3MP camera, the Xoom has a 5MP camera. The gTablet has a 1024x600 screen, the Xoom has a 1280x800 screen.

IMHO, the specs of the gTablet are more in line with the entry level iPad, not the Xoom.
Here it is : http://undrln.com
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$244.8m in subscription revenue for q3 last year, but falling fast (as people figure out they're still signed up, I guess).
Sorry your comment is entirely confounding. What do you mean by "You do not even have the word SQL". Are you suggesting Clustrix does not support structured query language or is non-relational?
It was for compatibility with older PC software that made unfortunate timing assumptions, wasn't it? (I wasn't there at the time.)
Well, hell. Why not do a 9/11 one?

"The world was shook to it's very foundation the day the World Trade Center buildings were attacked. Heroes fallen, a nation shook; some victims, flames against their back and smoke subsuming them, took a plunge...

... like the falling prices at Bleecker's Appliance on the corner of Warwick and Bushnell, where I just got a killer deal on a refrigerator through Groupon!"

Oh, right. Fresh wounds and all, right?
Polish Twitter clone called Blip uses them. ;)
When you write a program that does its timing using idle loops... old games, for instance, got really silly when they suddenly ran at 25 MHz instead of 8.
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Interesting post, but consider its header...

From: "Tony Ingenoso" <aingenosoNOS...@prodigy.net>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: IBM MIcrochannel??
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:43:13 GMT

I sadly wonder if anyone will be linking to any Hacker News comments 10 or 20 or even 30 years from now.

For all its strengths and flaws, there is a historical archival quality about Usenet that is quite compelling.
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I'm 17 years old, I have started a couple of online businesses but my aim in the next few years is to 'start a startup' like many others aspire to do.

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Basically, I'm wondering what valuable skills people would recommend acquiring? What skills have been scarce? Which provides more value? Any thoughts will be helpful!
Many old programs were written without proper timers -- for example, in many old games if the processor ran twice as fast, everything happened twice as fast.

Also, completely unrelated, but the processor in the computer you are using right now is very probably presently running at less than half of it's maximum speed.
Documentation is freaking awesome, but _executable_ documentation is even more awesome e.g. http://relishapp.com/rspec
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Good call on using foursquare to do the work. I'm not sure if you can use this source to include the best times of the year also, but this would be ideal. When people ask themselves (or others) "when should I visit?" they are often referring to "what time of the year should I visit?"

For a 24 hour job, I'm wowed. I can see a lot of expansion potential, notably in adding location (by country, state, city) and categories (i.e. breaking it down by museums, theaters, parks, etc.).

Consider making the graphs into a widget for local tourist, hotel, and city pages.
But the most expensive parts (processor, lcd, batteries, ram, flash memory) are for the most part commodity items. I would imagine Apple has some negotiating power buying huge volumes, but getting them 50-75% cheaper than Samsung?
Yes, they're really low. Starting base salaries for programmers and technical workers in general in "regular" Japanese companies are in average $3M yen (=~ U$36k) with very little variance.

Salaries go up very slowly (but surely) and most engineers and developers will eventually reach a plateau under U$100k. Unlike US companies, there's no way you'll ever earn more than that without changing to management. On the other hand, most companies pay overtime and you have job security.

Exceptions are Japanese financial companies and foreign companies. They tend to pay much more than regular Japanese companies. Still, the only companies that pay on par with US companies are foreign banks and securities houses.

I think people underestimate how good it is to be in US if you're a software developer or IT professional in general.
It was kind of fun for about a minute watching things slow down to a crawl.
Japanese salaries for engineers are really, really low compared to American salaries. In Nagoya, the well-known algorithm is about "age times 100k yen", so a 30 year old engineer makes on the order of $36.5k. Opportunities for improving this based on demonstrable ability are very limited when working for Japanese companies. (I hear there are some better options in Tokyo, particularly at foreign companies. Still, published average wages for one of the world's most expensive cities would seem substandard for virtually any American metropolis.)
I know that this wasn't your exact point, but apple does their own CPU's, IIRC. The A4 chips are the ARM arch. and are done in-house.