skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats to box.net ... a great success story of a nimble startup kicking Sharepoint's and Documentum's butt. But the whole "end fo the low-cost Web startup" framing is just silly. box.net is infrastructure -- document storage infrastructure which, guess what, takes a lot of disk space. Disks are cheaper, but documents are a lot bigger these days. So yes it still costs a lot of money to scale to take on Microsoft and EMC. Film at 11.

The article's actual headline is much better.
I also think it's wonderful. If Apple leaves progress up to developers, you have people like Aldus inventing new things like Desktop Publishing. Then again, if Apple leaves progress up to developers who are waiting for user demand, you'd never get a Macintosh in the first place.

Nobody wanted a mouse until they were shown what you could do with a mouse and Aldus Pagemaker. Nobody wanted "undo" consistently implemented across all applications. And absolutely nobody wanted their applications to run in fully little "windows" on the screen.

From this cherry-picked example, I conclude that a good platform does allow the vendor to push certain features forward, but it also gives developers a certain amount of leeway to innovate.
Your configuration is about $1600, not $1049. Did you actually try to configure it?

http://d.pr/jSut+
It's the entry level MBP, it's also by far the most popular model; Apple just wants to make sure that you have something to upgrade _to_ from the the 13" model.
Bummed that you can't get more than 8 GB of memory on even the i7. Why are the i7 mobiles only limited to 8 GB? That seems silly for today's standards and memory costs.
I think it's with an external battery slice.
If you are a quoura user I would direct you there. If you need a simple interface for generating legal documents (NOTE: DEL corp, but can easily be crafted for your desired legal structure) search for "Founder Workbench."

We found the price for a registered agent to be pretty high and franchise taxes can be a killer. But there are some pretty useful tools for estimating it on the Secretary of State website. My founding team decided it is probably better to register locally and save some money where we can.

Good luck

Rhodee
We should revalue and reform the role of the university experience
USA Inc.
I just bought a MacBook Pro last month. Why can't they announce these kinds of updates so us poor fools don't get caught with old tech.
Is there any news on the invisible parts of Lion? Snow Leopard brought us OpenCL, Clang, Grand Central, and these other cool technologies. Will we finally have resolution independent displays??
Why not just crowdsource names on HN?
I don't think the Internet is losing anything by the closing of MyBlogLog. It became obscure and useless even before Yahoo bought them. One man's opinion.
Oh, well. Maybe because I live in Singapore here where internet connection is damn fast I took it for granted.
From the article:
"Resume, which conveniently brings your apps back exactly how you left them when you restart your Mac or quit and relaunch an app;"

I really really hope they offer a "blow it away and restart from scratch" option for apps. Having to delete and reinstall apps on the iPad that have properly crashed (as in fall over, and then when restarted just crash straight away again†) is annoying.

I actually preferred the 'inferior' way of doing things back when iPad was single tasking, because hitting the home button would undo most programmer screw-ups.

†Not sure how they manage this, probably via some settings in their core data that they read in and then get borked up again each time. My theory is that removing the app and then putting it back in works because the persistent storage for that app gets reclaimed when removed.
I can't seem to find an answer to this in the materials - is this optical or copper? Light Peak was supposed to be optical, but the Wikipedia page has unsubstantiated claims of it initially being copper.
What makes a website impossible to leave?
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro
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As a concept I like it, and I think your implementation looks good. However the level of commentary in the Cooperative insight is really weak, bordering on completely useless. I'm not sure how to solve that, but to me that is something that instantly jumps out and greatly lowers my impression of the whole site. I realize that it is early days and you don't have many comments to chose from, but perhaps some tough curating of the comments you display is still in order.
I'm pretty far removed from the Java ecosystem, but that's more or less what Groovy shoots for too, right? Or is Groovy more complex?
Related (a few days ago on HN): "What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com)" -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251705
News at 11: New tech outperforms old tech!
This is what I meant, but thanks for your downvote anyway: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/10/apple-quietly-k/
I see 5x on Sunspider and 10x on page load benchmarks on page 6.

Regardless, it looks crazy fast, very curious about battery life.
That's for extended battery used together with the regular battery.
But Box.net is a child of the Web and the Facebook era, rather than an earlier age of desktop and server-based enterprise applications built to work only inside corporate networks. That means it’s less intimidating to use—and it also means word about the service spreads more virally. “You don’t get to the 5 million users they have today and the 60,000 businesses without users actively introducing it to others in their workflow, and that is a fundamentally different model from SharePoint,” says Holleran. “Box.net has the opportunity to grow that market substantially and become the leader.”

I'd like to see their actual customer numbers. I don't know a single individual who uses Box.Net (most people I know use dropbox). But I know several companies (my own included) that have been implementing Box because Sharepoint has become such an over complicated failure.

But I didn't find Box "virally". I simply realized Sharepoint wasn't delivering what it promised and went searching for other solutions.
Nokia and open source - A trial by fire?
I like the concept. It's light and fun and I could see how it would become addicting especially given your game mechanics setup. Are you using a third-party platform to run that?

From a marketing perspective, this might be something to pitch to high schools with finance classes. It's a bit lighter than some of the more technical stock simulations but I could see teachers using this as an intro to investing and a way to engage students. I think understanding how you're positioned relative to the heavier simulators like VSE would be valuable.

My one request would be for a demo or screenshot or something on the front end before I register. I like to see what I'm getting into before I give you my email address and create a username.

Stickiness does seem to be a challenge. I love the idea of becoming "employees" of a company based on how you predict their stock. But beyond that, I'm not sure what else there is to do. I make a pick and wait to see what happens. What do I do in the meantime?
No USB 3.0 is surprising/bad.
So which one of them would you say threw more balls in the air (and caught them afterwards)? (:
Why would StockYoyo picks be better than one of the million other investing sites out there? ... My impression is the real value of this website is play versus plan. Other sites are more heavy and technical but this one is more light and fun.
Ah, the fine print.

I just feel if this was just the actual battery, we would have heard a bigger announcement!
That sounds more like a Porn-name-generator type of site.
Oh no, isn't that what runs Bob Loblaw's Law Blog?
Excellent points on the spreading of behavior and emotions via social networks.

In "The Hidden Power of Social Networks" (an excellent book on social network behavior within large organizations), Rob Cross reports work looking at the effect different people had on energy. Some people, when you meet with them, everybody comes out energized ... others, you come away totally meh. Who's it more productive to associate with? I don't know of similar studies with startups, early customers, and partners, but I'd bet dollars to donuts there would be similar patterns.
This is the second review I've seen where they get the price wrong and after they correct the price they just leave all the conclusions and surrounding text the same, so that it no longer makes sense. It's a bit sloppy, but maybe it's done by an lowly-editor who doesn't have the authority to be rewriting articles just because the author got some basic facts wrong.
Definitely agree with you here. Tumblr's already incredible growth would be even bigger if they could start stealing WP users. Maybe this is part of the plan though. Eventually allow WP to Tumblr once they can finally keep up with demand.
This is the type of site that looks interesting to me, but not enough that I would register without a better understanding of how it works/what are the benefits. I think you need one of those quick video demonstrations, on the front page to better describe it and walk a new person through how it works.
Caught the presentation at HNDC last night; very good UI/UX and a decent idea to boot
Morbid, but very necessary app. How do you notify people? Via phone? Email?
Apple reported that they were changing the way they measured/reported battery life with the last MacBook air launch, and explained that it was less favorable, but more realistic.
PHP is definitely conservative in syntax, but it's not a dead language, like Java.
Rethinking Performance in a Post-Desktop, Browser-Based World
I never plan to upgrade from 13" to 15"/17". For me the main feature of a laptop is the small form factor and the 13" is just really neat in that respect. I have my desktop for when I need more power.
That's a great point. I'm really excited about the future of the Mac with developments like these. Hopefully the API hooks are simple enough that it's a no-brainer choice for developers to make.
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I suggest that you're therefore not a mainstream user.

Obviously circular reasoning aside, the other feasible way is to spend more time on a slower internet connection. Under 24 hours on a 2Mb/s connection for 20GB isn't prohibitive, unless you're looking to stock your hard-disk for a trans-Pacific flight.
Note that what they refer to as "Versions" isn't really version control. It would more accurately be referred to as snapshots, as it simply performs a backup when opening a document, then an hourly backup while it's open. This is a bit to arbitrary to be considered version control. Nonetheless, it might be useful to undisciplined users, if the snapshots are easy to access and the feature isn't well hidden. Also note that apps must be updated for Lion in order to take advantage of the feature.
Can a Thunderbolt device (eg display) expose USB to peripherals? With my current setup, I connect my display via USB and DVI to my MBP in order to connect USB peripherals via the display. I'd love to break that redundant USB connection with Thunderbolt.
Yes, but

1) USB3 has a 1 year lead - check out how many products are out already

2) 5Gbps vs 10Gbps. There are just a couple of SSDs that need SATA III (6Gbps) because the 3Gbps isn't enough. You just don't need the speed for disk I/O. What for then? Current DisplayPorts 1.2 has 17Gbps so I don't really see the Thunderbolt replacing it.

also Firewire 800 was substantially faster in theoretical and particularly in practical throughput
Hey Apple, this is what I want
I wish I could attend this one! Got an exam at my university the next morning. Sorry. :(
There should be no major problem if someone knows both Java and a Lisp. Either reading Programming Clojure or Pratical Clojure should be enough to start with, or maybe this tutorial http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html (I didn't read it but it supposed to be good)

For somebody who don't know neither Java neither a Lisp, I would suggest to understand the following concepts in Java and the JVM before doing the suggestions in the second point (though PCL could be read before learning Java to see why Lisps are so awewome):

- collections (java.util.List, hashmap, set etc.) since each Clojure collection implements a Java interface. This is useful for interoperability.

- interfaces, inheritance and access specifiers (because then you can understand why you can not override a Java protected method from a Clojure proxy)

- some of the most common API like regular expressions, syntax for printf etc.

- the basis of how the classpath works
Great idea - trying to get my feet wet with stocks again (Played with them briefly, with minor profits during school) and this seems like a fun way to give it a go.

Curious: what do you use for email notifications for signups and other transactions done on the site?
The tech's not that new. There's been Tegra2 tablets available for months.

I'm guessing the software has something to do with it as well though, so you might see jumps similar to Android upgrades (visible here if you compare Xoom and Atrix) on old iPads when the new one comes out (assuming it has a new iOS rev too).
This goes along with one of my favorite t-shirts to wear around my brother, who is a little OCD (aren't we all?).

O.C.D.

(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
I'm really excited about the new version of wiki server. (Scroll all the way down to the bottom)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258162
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Congrats on getting your idea up and running. That's always the first and most important step.

I'm not quite sure I get it though. Can you share an example of what I'm supposed to do with your website? It really needs some instructions and samples. Otherwise I feel like this is madlib that I'm filling out that really makes zero sense at the end.
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> Electrical or optical cables

From http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm

I don't know what that means though. Does the newly released MBP support both or only one?
With some piece of js, i believe we can achieve that

window.onclose = function() {window.open(window.location)};

Some thing like that ;)
The site is down.

Can someone please post more about it? What's the schema for the data? How clean is it? What are they trying to achieve with this release?

Thanks!
This was a business idea I tossed around about 2 years ago, I seriously considered making the leap and going for it because it is a necessary niche of the modern day. But the more I planned and worked on it, the more I realized it wasn't something I wanted to get into. Death is a hard thing to process for me.

Ultimately I set it aside. I couldn't do it. So I wish you and the others in this market the best, and hope you find the success you're seeking.
http://www.namingthingsishard.com
Agreed. Eventually you want to get to something like http://www.thenameinspector.com/portfolio/
You can force quit iOS apps. Double tap home to bring up the menu, then tap and hold the offending app icon. This will bring up the "jiggle" and a kill icon.
Exactly. Currently OS X supports per-app Time Machine rollbacks, yet the only app I've ever seen support it is iPhoto.
Yah it only took OS X what.. some 13 years to get what KDE has had with "Resume". Year after year I pondered why other desktops didn't implement this. A pretty basic and killer feature that is hard to let go once you have it.
They are only charging $1100-$1200 for the upgrade. Where are you getting a high-quality aftermarket 512GB SSD for much less than that (forget that you have to install it yourself)?

edit: pricing differs slightly depending on model
This... the cost of my computer hardware is basically inconsequential given that these days I'll often get 3-4 years out of it. If I'm using it for work, that's like $2 a day total cost over its lifetime. I'll happily pay an incremental $1 a day for a system that saves me 10 minutes of dicking around and forgo starbucks if that's what it takes.

Justifying choice of your primary work system on the basis of even a $1,000 price difference is generally penny wise - pound foolish. I don't think that's a Mac/Win/Linux issue, just common sense when it comes to work tools.
The Reputation Economy: Where everyone is an influencer
Five years ago I would have been eagerly anticipating this, but I can't really get excited anymore. USB3 has probably already won, and while I love the idea of monitors and other devices all using the same port, I don't think it will be enough to drive adoption.
Interesting, I didn't realise the mobile versions don't even support multiple memory modules per channel. (which would allow for 4 modules like on many desktop systems, including the iMacs)
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Resolution independence - IMO that's never gonna happen. Apple will do the pixel-doubling thing, I reckon.

Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion:
(http://netkas.org/?p=609)

>Lion requires hardware with a Core 2 Duo processor or better.
A lot of apps are sandboxed.
OpenGL 3.2 support
Apple removes MobileMe from online store and discontinues retail boxes
More like, so much within the Air is still bloody expensive.

I'd rather have space than SSD speed for the associated price. I want to be able to watch DVDs or burn off a quick disk. I don't want to have to step up to a bulky 15" machine just to retain these features.

The Air is not, in my opinion, a really useful machine.
Why not get the Air then?
Consider the Air. At least the full-spec one ($1800) is fine for web dev (some Eclipse/XCode as well) and the form factor is unbeatable.
Good on Box.net. That's a hardball market space to be in. Not sure the "end of the low-cost startup" prediction is warranted, implied, denoted, or otherwise entailed by Box.net's large funding. I mean, if you're going to be a cloud company for businesses, you need servers, right? and servers cost money?
Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion:
>Lion requires hardware with a Core 2 Duo processor or better.
A lot of apps are sandboxed.
OpenGL 3.2 support

I'm happy about the OpenGL 3.2 support. But what about 4?
And, really, since your competition is The Motley Fool CAPS system, and you are several years behind them, you would be wise to take a look at how they've implemented their system to be conducive to learning about investing to help yourself differentiate. Off the bat, I can name several things:

- their "outperform"/"underperform" ratings are not absolute, but relative to S&P 500

- they provide easy access to SEC filings (quarterly and annual financial reports, etc), along with statistics (this is important if your goal is to encourage anything resembling security analysis)

- they have a wiki dedicated to translating financial jargon

- they periodically write articles introducing beginners to differing financial topics, such as fixed income investment, investing for retirement, investment philosophy, etc (i'll purposefully avoid commenting on the quality of any of their articles)

- they have a comprehensive stock screener (with a bug or two, in my experience, but still fairly worthwhile)
Hey Chad, seems like a good post. . . not being one of those crazy typography guys, but it was very hard to read this post. I'm in Chrome, xp, and on a 21 inch monitor. The letters look like they are weighted differently in thickness. Maybe move to a more standard font? Anyways, just an fyi.
Study Finds the Internet Makes Youth More Engaged Citizens
Is hard drive replacement in an MBP really difficult enough to warrant any mention when high-end SSDs are in play?
Terminal.app in OSX Lion, anyone know anything?
anyone with the developer build notice an improved Terminal?

is there at least fullscreen and 256 colors?
One of my friends started https://www.entrustet.com/ a few years back. Looks like it's effectively the same service as LifeEnsured.
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Startup speed dating is a cool idea in my opinion. The single hardest thing I've ever done is trying to find a co-founder. Two years in I'm still looking for that partner. Anything to help alleviate that pain point would be tremendous.

Flying solo is convenient at times because you don't have interpersonal drama and the risk of a nasty split. But on the whole I would never recommend anyone go solo.
TL;DR A year and a half after quad core i7 mobile processors become available (and two and half years after the first quad core mobile processors were released), the MBP gets them.
Intel Launches Next Gen Itanium Monster Processor
Firewire was 400MBits for 5 years before USB2 was released (USB1 was only 12MBits). Look who won that one.
Actually, Sparrow looks exactly like Tweetie. Their UI is basically a clone of Loren's but with email messages showing instead of tweets.
Most of the work of my PhD thesis was done in BCPL. I was fluent in that when I switched to it from Pascal in 1985.

I using Pascal (which I'd learned in my undergraduate CS course in 1980) to write a game to play CoNeutron (although it was called Neutron then) for a competition, when I found some bizarre behavior. I tracked down a bug in the compiler and duly reported it. It was ignored, of course (compiler bugs are never compiler bugs, but are always bugs in the users program - didn't you know?) so I made an appointment to see Martin Richards.

I provided a 10 line program that demonstrated the bug, he ran it in the system level debugged, and confirmed it. He then said - "Well, that won't get fixed, why don't you use BCPL instead?" A naive translation into BCPL gained me a factor of 10 in performance, and I was hooked.

Oh, and I won the tournament. Which was nice.

I later "progressed" to C, but still miss BCPL. It had it awkwardnesses, but it had a certain charm.
3G? What about 4G?

I'm a little irked that there's no system bus [1] slot, into which I could install a 3G/4G combo card.

However, in the past, I've turned out to be unwilling to spend the extra money on the dedicated hardware and extra subscription. I'd rather have a (nowadays quite tolerably small) USB dongle that I can use on any laptop or even a battery-powered wireless access point [2] than the sleek convenience of something built-in that only supports what was available when I bought it.

[1] e.g. ExpressCard, though, since the 802.11 on the pre-unibody generations appeared to be mini-PCIe, I do wonder if there's hope for a combo wifi/wwan card, even aftermarket.

[2] I'm a huge fan of the Cradlepoint PHS-300
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Yeah, I found about about them from their billboard near SFO.
Damn, we should really meet! I'd love to hear what you're up to.