skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue with the quad core is heat, as those are 45W TDP. I was recently looking at a Lenovo W510 (main attraction: 16GB RAM), but the consensus seemed to be that as soon as the processor was put under stress it overheated which in turn caused the processor to throttle, which seems to defeat the point a little bit.

17'' machines seem to be OK with it though.
Perhaps one would have expected log entries or an updated atime?
Well, we know the author took 6 classes, worked 40 hours/week, drank constantly, and had sex more than 1000 times his first year (by his reckoning). Then, upon graduating with a MS in CS from Cornell, he had to be sent away for lessons on how to connect a computer to the Internet.

I think I see why he thinks college isn't valuable. For the rest of us, who spend time more learning and honing skills than boning and vomiting, I'd say it's pretty damned valuable.
Glad to see pure speculation making the front page. It's a sad commentary when you a few links to that vaunted journal Mac Rumors would vastly increase the credibility of a post. I am sure some would love to see a 15" MacBook Air and the demise of the glass screen, but airing those desires is not news.
Are you taking a serious hit from this, or is it too new still?
Finger-pointing is always infantile.
Let me get this straight; Which system was hacked Linux or MSFT?
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976...
From the viewpoint of the article, this looks like a case of "Best Practices" (Microsoft) vs "Best Design" (Apple).

What's the difference? "Best Practices" are describable and repeatable, while "Best Design" depends on artistic sensibility and having the right people do the job. It comes down to do you trust your process or do you trust your people.
That's one of the main reasons I recently decided to go for a Thinkpad over a Mac. Untill SSD prices drop, the dual drive seems like the best strategy (512MB SSDs are way too expensive), and I really didn't feel like doing DIY on a brand new laptop.
IMO storing this kind of information in plain text was never acceptable. It requires the right combination of arrogance and incompetence for this to happen.
> How do you explain to an American that the same bottle of wine costs 50% more in rural Canada than in New York City :) ?

Shipping cost? If anything, I'd have thought the LCBO, keeping prices uniform across the province, helps rural areas at the expense of higher density areas (though perhaps not strict downtowns where store lease cost might be significant).
The answer is that you just have to trust your instincts. I believe you're at the beginning stage of entrepreneurial myopia, which is good because that's where innovation comes from, but at the same time you'd be amazed at how many great ideas people around the world come up with.

I'm not trying to discourage, instead I'm trying to encourage you. Like all initial ideas, unless you've been in the industry for years and years, yours probably haven't really taken shape yet, it's just a good start. I would highly recommend first sharing it with someone you trust, a close friend or mentor, to get some honest feedback about it.

And when you do look for a partner, you have to think about what you can offer. A web startup requires good developer/s. Unless you're willing to learn it all by yourself, or you're one of those rare people like my college roommate who hires six developers for his startup because he has the money to do that, prepare to give out chunks of your company out. The best solution I propose is to find two partners and give out 60%'ish. if you think you have a billion dollar idea, it's probably more viable to make it more than an idea than to worry about harvesting the money, because you'd be surprised at how many things could go wrong.

Bottom line is don't be paranoid. If you can convince a qualified developer to jump onboard for sweat equity, then maybe your idea does have potentials. Just don't share your idea with every other person, but don't become paranoid. At this stage, you should be worrying about finding a partner than about someone stealing your idea.
Ask HN: What should I do with this?
Lookout lets you create Google alerts and then learns over time to
only show you alerts you would care about. It's like Pandora, except
instead of creating a station, you create a Google alert. It was meant
for small PR agencies. I even had a few using it as I built it.

Life happened and I took a break from this project for a few months,
and now that I've come up for air I started to work on Lookout again,
but I realized I'm simply no longer interested in this project. Normally I
find it fairly easy to scrap my projects and move on to the next
thing, but for some reason I'm reluctant to do that here.

It needs a little work. The Bayesian filter isn't quite doing what I
want it to do. You can't sign up for a new account because I was just
manually creating accounts for people. Both of these could be knocked
out in a weekend. Then what? The thought of putting some sort of
billing system in place is not appealing -- I have other projects I want
to work on and would rather not have this looming in the background.

So, what do you think I should do with it?

You can use the login: hn password: hn

url: http://www.lookoutthere.com

Click on a client, (remember, you work at a PR agency), to see news
for that client.
Damn, 400 answers on Quora... no wonder why Scoble is so passionate about it. Scoble is a content creation machine, and unlike most answer sites and other bloggers, his content is high-signal.
As interesting as toilet paper orientation is to a community of programmers and entrepreneurs I don't appreciate your looking down on others. I know people who live in mobile homes and I don't like to see those people being looked down on for where they live (of all the things you could pick on a person for). In fact, I can't stand it.

It's bad enough what they go through from people who think they're better than they are (hint: you're not any better because your parents raised you in something more socially acceptable). It's clear that you don't know what it's like for them, but if you did you wouldn't make comments like that. If every day you heard people driving by yelling things like "trailer trash" at you then you might understand what I'm saying. Spread your subtle hate elsewhere.

Sorry to others for this long rant about a small, unconscionable remark. Condescension is a personal pet peeve.
clickable: http://www.lookoutthere.com
I've had his problem before -- being completely addicted to a service or forum and posting constantly just because I'm always there and am so enthusiastic about it. It's really hard to spot in yourself and deal with when you're just... so enthusiastic!
According to the Al Jazeera live blog for today 6 of their journalists have just been arrested in Cairo! Since the liveblog is always updating the relevant posts are:

2:40pm: Our correspondent tweets:

Unsure if arrested or about to be deported. 6 of us held at army checkpoint outside Hilton hotel. Equipment seized too. #Egypt

2:11pm BREAKING NEWS: Six Al Jazeera journalists arrested in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Our correspondent there just tweeted this:

4 soldiers entered room took our camera. Wr ae under military arrest #Egypt #jan25

From: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/30/live-blog-...
What's the password?
The Cost & Implications of Free(mium)
Disruption is happening. We're about to launch a platform which takes a $100 Bn market and democratizes it by putting it online. And, we have some key Wall Street support.

The people who are creating these disruptive technologies are the insiders who have intimate knowledge of these systems. It's not necessarily going to be a new GUI on top of an old idea, as someone else put it in this thread.

My original comment to Chris is over a year old on that very same blog post. It's actually a bit embarrassing, since I really should have found a better way to try to contact him.
Wall Street is disrupted all the time. Major disruptions in many of the specific items he talks about:

4) The internet disrupted trading on the broker side (you pay $0-$8/trade now). Used to be a LOT more. HFT disrupted trading on the market maker side. It used to be that you paid a human a nickel for liquidity, now you pay a computer a penny for it. Various brokers are further disrupting trading by allowing anyone to become an HFT (e.g. Interactive Brokers).

There isn't much left to do on the trading side - trading is nearly free now.

5) Goldman Sachs seems to have come up with a disruptive innovation in IB - go semi public through an SIV to avoid all the hassles of becoming an actual public company.

7) Mutual funds - he seems aware that low fee ETFs are already disrupting mutual funds.
You can get much of the experience with
essentially zero risk (except to your ego)
by starting a social club, student
organization, hobby website, or
open-source project.

Unless you are supporting a family, where's the big risk in trying to start up your own business?

It's not like you will be reduced to living under a bridge and panhandling if things don't pan out - if you're a good programmer finding a new job isn't that hard.
I've been trying to track down intermittent issues with webcam+flash on my Windows PC, looks like I need to investigate Skype. Thank you!
umm.. whats the connection between Tiger Woods and Accenture?

http://slinkingtowardretirement.com/?p=22559

And are all of the alerts from Google Alerts, or are you scraping news sites too from somewhere?
We run our startup from two 15" MacBook Pros. For mine, I took out the optical drive and replaced it with a 1TB hard drive. Where the original hard drive went, I put in a tiny SSD. This works great. OS and apps on the SSD, and I put the iMovie events and Aperture libraries on the hard drive. I don't know why Marco thinks that Time Machine wouldn't back up both drives, it does back mine up.

I also think that Firewire is pretty important, as I backed up to external drives over USB for awhile and really have come to appreciate the FW800 port for that purpose.

A Wedge shaped MacBook Pro would still be bigger than an air, and probably thicker, and I presume would have room for a FW port still.

I don't see the need or reason to go to SSD only. The people who would be happy with that are likely to be happy with the macbook Air anyway.
So... blame the victim? Really?
Tiger Woods used to be sponsored by Accenture. They dropped him after the scandal.

All alerts are from Google Alerts.
ah, ok.. got it..

So its basically an interface to Google Alerts then. Why not throw it on github and opensource it?
I had trouble hitting this, Google doc cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q7G5bd4...
do a random function of values between $1 dollar to $100 million, and whatever the output is, that's the value of your startup.

There is no formula. Everything is intrinsic. You might think your startup is worth $10m right now, but investors might think otherwise. If you really want to know, go find 10 finance majors and tell them how much they think your company is worth, average it, and that's probably the best way. The biggest factor you should account for is how much people are willing to pay for it, especially investor.

There's no secret. If you're a smooth talker, you might make a $100k idea valued at $1m. If you're a bad talker, you might make an $1m idea worth 100k. If you can convince Yuri Milner, you can probably make your 100k idea $10m. I guess you can factor that into account as well. ;-D
We're bored of cold calls from recruiters (try the form and see the source)
Skype does not care enough about UX in general. It's no wonder that, when faced with design questions like "Should we allow Flash to use the camera while Skype is running?", they take the wrong decision.

If you couple this with the UI of Skype for Mac 5, you have plenty of reasons to remain with version 2.8.
Doesn't make sense to me. This sounds like the opposite of what John Stuart Mill said about Socrates and the fool.

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."

- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863)
Lets clarify a few things.

The ruling last year:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-802.htm

The result of consultation on the ruling, and dates for its application:
http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm

This affects the "Gateway Access Services (GAS)" customers. Wholesale Bell customers. (Product details here http://www.wholesale.bell.ca/pdfs/GASDSL.pdf)

And "Third Party Internet Access (TPIA)" customers. Rogers & Shaw Wholesale customers.

The GAS is not local loop unbundling. That is "(ADSL) Access Service" (http://www.bce.ca/en/aboutbce/regulatoryinformation/tarrifs/...)

There are essentially three options for an ISP. Diagrammed below.

PoP = Point of Presence. This is the handover from the access network to the provider network. The equipment found here is often called a BRAS.

------------The Internet------------
| | | |
----------Peering Location----------
| | | | <-.
ISP1 ISP2 TekS BELL \
| | \ / <---- Private network.
PoP1 PoP2 PoP3
| |# |**
Priv.Fiber LeasedLine Bell
| | |** <---- "Backhaul" "Transmission Network"
Priv.DSLAM Priv.DSLAM -Bell DSLAM-
|~ |~ | |* <-- "Local Loop" "Last Mile"
CPE CPE TekSCPE BellCPE

* Bell's retail capacity based pricing.
** Bell's wholesale capacity based pricing.
~ ADSL Access Service
# Bell does actually lease lambdas on its fiber.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XDSL_Connectivity_Diagram_...
there is no burden of proof in the court of public opinion

Except that article by Markus Frind walks a fine line between libel and opinion.

And you can get your ass sued to stratosphere and lose if you fail to produce reasonable proof when making public accusations.
http://i41.tinypic.com/20uwsg3.jpg

However, this one has some points: http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2009/03/great-debate.html
Nope, it's just iron shavings:
http://www.mcrel.org/whelmers/whelm07.asp

"The iron in the cereal is pure iron! Really! It is the same iron found in nails and automobiles. It is mixed in the cereal batter along with many other additives. The very tiny particles of iron quickly react with hydrochloric acid and other chemicals in the digestive tract, changing to a form easily absorbed by the body."

That's a secondary school lesson guide for a science class in which the students extract the raw iron shavings from the cereal. It's a trivial process (you need a magnet, some water, and some crushed cereal - high iron content cereal obviously yields more dramatic results).

The Times also has an educational piece on extracting iron from cereal: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...

You can see in this video the extracted iron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V265pGgsBnM

View from 2:30.
Certainly! That part alone is not only plausible, but also quite common. Antivirus companies, security researchers and various other interested parties have been known to use such tactics.

However, it doesn't make sense then those who hacked his supposed honeypot would be aware of his oversight ("they are trying to kill him"), while still using the honeypot to perform whatever illegal shenanigans they were up to ("they are currently downloading plentyoffish’s database").
Please remember that TRIM is one solution, and Apple makes the whole widget. Which is to say, Apple can make their own SSDs (or set the specs for toshiba or whoever provides the modules) and put whatever support into the OS they need.

TRIM, like all such standards, is a compromise born out of the need for different parties (namely OS makers and hardware makers who have different priorities) to agree on a common solution.

Apple doesn't need to make such a compromise, and can thus produce a better solution. I'm not saying they will, they may not consider the issue sufficient for the effort required and may simply support TRIM, or they may decide that TRIM is the best practical solution for them.

But in my experience watching Apple for a couple decades, them "doing nothing" and it seemingly being well past the time they should have done something, usually means that they are working on what they consider to be a much better solution, and it isn't yet ready.

I think there's a lot of room for innovation in this fundamental shift from hard drives to SSDs.
Why not, when they are being completely irresponsible with millions of people's data?
The interesting thing here, I think, is how obvious it is that it's the community and the rules of the community that shapes a service like Quora, not the feature set or the web design or the copy used etc.

Not that this is very surprising, it's just a reminder to not just look at the feature list of your startup but also its.... well, soul.

Hacker News is itself an example of this.
I think it's hilarious how one person ... one registered user of a web startup can completely derail all positive discussion about the service and spawn so many blog posts and news articles.

This strikes me as one of those "lord of the flies" moments where we all need to stop and ask what we're all doing here exactly.
The "need to support a family" argument may explain why founders are young men, but not why they are young men.
Hey, no need to apologize for your rant - you have the right to free speech.

I must ask though what gives you the impression that I'm looking down on others. When I wrote "...I don't have pets/children, nor a mobile home", that was merely a statement of fact. Read the article ( this bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation#Argume... ) and you'll see why I said what I said, with no malice nor condescension intended.
> unlimited is impossible

Tell that to Virgin. Pay them enough money and they give you real unlimited (as do several other ISPs). BT sucks, but that's pretty widely-known now. The UK is certainly not in the same position as Canada, as we have several options that are genuinely unlimited.
They caught him and they fired him...
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Never had a big problem with the Linux version. It does video, with good quality, and that's all you really need Skype for, a flashy UI or other pointless features just detracts from Skype's main purpose.
I can't look inside your book on Amazon and it's not available here in E. European bookstores. Do you have a sample chapter or the TOC online?
This is neither here nor there, but I'd love a lifestyle business that could pay me a steady $3k/mo. It would mean I'd be independent enough to do anything I wanted.
The United States and it's citizens are stuck on black & white (right and wrong etc), we always have been. You want a real grey area? Try Russia where bribes and laws are close cousins. The problem with B&W is it leaves no room for the most logical explanation for most apparent conspiracies.
in any case epic fail at damage limitation by all involved
If you have a major in philosophy try your hand at programming. After all, an undergraduate degree in philosophy usually comes with familiarity with a bunch of different logics and logical languages, you will have an advantage in understanding programming languages at a much higher-order level than your average computer science student who bashes through their degree for reasons economic.
Nice prizes :)
http://www.realvnc.com/
It's certainly not a vital issue, but I'd say it's at least an interesting issue. I say that because it's one of those things that people take for granted. It's useful and interesting (at least it is for me!) to analyze the things that we do out of thoughtless habit.
Robert Scoble’s Severed Head, Truthiness, and the Surrender Chicken
That's true, startup work is just too damn enjoyable to quit... However, everything in moderation.
We're thinking about a lot of other types of game mechanics as well as features that don't include any game mechanics. Things like A/B testing of your messaging on the front page, in your tweets, on Facebook, etc.
Angel lists by market at angels.co
Apparently the above is unpopular - I was just trying to point out that posting your password (or enough of it that one could bruteforce the rest) has its downsides.
Forex Trading Trend Patterns - The Double Bottom
The fact that the CRTC is stacked with former Bell and Rogers employees and NO ONE to represent the public or small ISPs also helps.

The CRTC is just a stooge pretending the play the part of opposition, while they are actually a collaborator.
Where is here? The most common business messenger in my experience has been Office Communicator. It's everywhere that Exchange and Outlook are.
another reason for not doing an MBA is that it stops you from being able to make a point concisely....;-)
We're rolling out people slowly from the top of the list since we're providing hosting. We should be starting with the top of the list.
Why Android will win the tablet wars
Android overtakes Nokia’s Symbian
Does this mean that Skype can take snapshots through your web cam whenever it's running?
There was a US high school that installed software that did that and got raked over the coals for it.
The mac is fortunately not the largest part of the users but it's definitely something we can see.
I would guess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28author%29
I took your remark as a statement that follows this frame: "I never understood why some people do [something I think is in poor taste], but then again I'm not [some class of people]."

From the Wikipedia article: Under in a recreational vehicle may reduce unrolling during driving.

Unless you confuse mobile homes with recreational vehicles, I doubt that this is what you intended.
The Pre has inductive charging? That's very interesting... I wonder if I can buy a pad for my Desire HD.
interesting concept :)
>With all due respect to the Canadians here, it's not really that bad at all. Life goes on, and it actually seems to be a pretty good life too.

You do realize you are being horribly ripped off?

It's true that life goes on, even for slaves.
The thing is, Dutch Auction IPOs just don't usually work very well. They worked for google since it was a huge and well known name, but they don't work nearly as well for the long tail of AMEX.

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07...
Let's take a closer look at part of this argument: 24fps compared to 48fps and resolution. The article, to be honest, feels like it was copied out of a marketing document. If you look at the chart where they reference the RED system and use an interesting chart to 'prove' their system has higher resolution, you'll notice a few flaws.

1. They're using the double frame rate to argue that the resolution is 4x larger then the 24fps framerate, which simply isn't true. It may provide a better picture quality, but that is certainly subjective and depends on the film and how it was shot.

2. They're at 4K right now, moving to a 5K film system. RED is at a 5K 24fps system, heading towards 5K 120fps and up to 28K resolution. They can't compare their future plans with RED's current offerings without some logical problems. He does mention RED's future plans, but suggests that studios should use his finishing format with the new RED system (instead of other options that are equally viable).
It's a government-enforced monopoly.
No, it's not. They have a large(ish) self-serve advertising platform like FB with various levels of targeting.
Why haven't you denied the puppies kidnapping, mahmud? I can overlook the Yakuza. I have seen some movies about them and they look cool, but kidnapping puppies?

Really sounds suspicious.
Was Tom not working as part of WakeMate?
Plastic macbooks should go down to $799 now that the Air is $999

In delicious colors!
Trying to turn a PoC into paid work is indeed sketchy; but I do understand that security researchers/whitehat hackers would like to get paid for their work.

It would be good if more companies set up bug bounties, and even better if they'd set the reward a bit closer to (reputed) black-market prices.