skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After working for a while as a programmer, I went back to uni to do some post-grad work (while still holding down a full time programmers job). I noticed a couple of things:

Doing the assignments was really easy. My reactions were something like "omg, they wrote a complete and proper spec!" - but it wasn't that. When I reflected upon it, I realised that the spec was very short, but they had removed all ambiguity from it, which made the assignments ridiculously easy compared to real life work.

Secondly although I swore I wouldn't do this, I turned into one of the 'mature students' (read as: grumpy-old-men types) who laugh at students whenever they complain about their workload.
Am I reading this right? That Lion Server is included in the normal OS X Lion release?

That's pretty awesome if so. Means I'd be willing to fork over the cash for one of those Mac Minis to use for Calendar/Contact syncing instead of using MobileMe.
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Please don't editorialize in the submission title.
I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay.

For those of us without excellent internet connections, it's the only feasible way to get HD movies.
Does this look through all the links on my feed and pulls out the title + image + excerpt?
How many of the coolest-sounding features like Auto-Save, Versions and Resume will require special support per application? Resume is the only one that seems doable without that; they can piggyback on the existing OS support for suspend-to-disk hibernation.
Seems so, from the Apple page on Lion:

> Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion.
sorry, no time :(
Did you read the naming philosophy section? This bit is interesting:

"Think about this scenario: You're at a party and someone asks you where you work. If you say "I work for shoes.com," it's pretty obvious that you work for a website that sells shoes.

But, if you say "I work for shoe.ly," then you have to go on to explain it to them: "It's a website that sells shoes." If you owned the .com, everyone would already know that."
I was surprised about the symbol as well. It's just a matter of time until someone gets hurt while trying to connect their peripherals to a transformer.
Only Apple could brag about finally having a proper window maximize feature. I like many of their products, but their hubris is getting hilarious.
s/HN/developer.android.com/

s/vi/eclipse/
Wonder how many monitors this can push. Also, what will happen to Apples 30pin connector on their iPods,iPhones... I guess we will know Tuesday. Are there any external hard drives with thunderbolt yet?
This article is from 2005. It's quite likely that Basecamp's downtime was around a week per year. At that time, Rails was expected to have ~400 restarts a day[1] ;)

[1] http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expecte...
Ability to handle LaTeX would be useful (at least for my possibly twisted needs :) )
One of the biggest challenges here seems to be that the web as we know it will likely be nearly unrecognizable 10 years from now, yet yours is a product with a timeline of several decades. Imagine in 10 years how paltry a 100MB file upload limit will likely seem.
The main thing that bothers me in your list that I was really hoping for, was the better resolution on the 13inch. boo.
If you are writing frequent updates to your MyISAM tables, you should switch to a database backend that allows concurrent updates. MyISAM is only useful for read-mostly or single writer scenarios. See also http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/06/17/using-myisam-...
Auto-save and Versions work with document-oriented apps, so I guess they can also be doable without special support from app.
Ah right, I totally forgot about that one!
Is this why Apple dumped FireWire a few years ago?
The people at my office who actually use Highrise and have to deal with 37s' frequent bouts of downtime would beg to differ.
I've never seen a more beautiful laptop. What can they really do besides include faster components and add features to software?
One of our free services is making an HTTP POST or GET (authenticated if you'd like) to a web server when we receive notification of your passing. We hope you chose to use it for something a bit happier - like triggering your private keys to expire etc.
Not me, my dual-core i7 already runs quite hot enough!
Required feature: notify all of my friends that they were left behind.
How long before we can buy external graphics cards that utilize thunderbolt? It'd save me the hassle of having to build gaming PCs every couple years.
It would be awesome if iPad2 had the same port... I say it's a possibility!
The tech has been around for years, the hard problem is getting the doctors to actually use the tech. The doctor I used to go to seemed to have no idea who I was I why I was there every time I showed up for an appointment, despite the fact that there was a perfectly good computer standing on his desk where he could quickly have looked up everything he needed to know.
the video on that page of the new multitouch gesture support looks really useful
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Thanks for this, I just applied and told one of my professors so that we can use this for our semester long project with 20 other students.
Saw the demo as well last night. Interesting concept and if it actually did hit the masses, I personally think it would have a sway on how you invest into the market. Great concept though!
I wish HN had a "Move it to reddit" button.
It is going to be tough to market. Estate planners are lawyers and thus can't ethically take affiliate payments, so they have little reason to push your products. I assume you are aware of http://LegacyLocker.com/
Hurting the viral component..? I guess we'll have to let people decide about that, no?

I suspect people are equally interested in talking about what they like or dislike :)
Ditch the two spinning drives and build in a SSD by default? That would allow for a redesign as well as a larger battery and would certainly warrant an event.

After the MacBook Air, it’s only a matter of time until they do just that, maybe next year. (I can only hope. I’m actually seriously considering schlepping my 2007 MacBook Pro around another year.)
You should also watch what Sauce Labs is working on. http://saucelabs.com/bug-beta (Leveraging all our existing desktop cloud infrastructure for interactive x-browser testing.)
The problem is likely due to the gulf between good programmers and normal programmers being so substantial. All the normal programmers end up as below average due to the minority at the other end of the curve.

Hence a normal indian programmer is going to be below average. And a normal chinese programmer is going to be below the average.

But a normal western programmer is also going to be below the average.

I've worked with some really bad western programmers. And I read excerpts from western programmer blogs that make me cringe (e.g. the "real men don't catch exceptions or check for nulls" crowd).

The absolute 100% head and shoulders worst two programmers I ever worked with:

The westerner: a consultant from Thoughtworks who deliberately broke core parts of our project, some call it sabotage, others would call it billable hours.

The offshore indian: a completely useless twat who did no work whatsoever but just made excuses. You'd talk to him and get problem A sorted out and then repeat for problems B through H... and then the next problem would be problem A again. It was like it was a roundabout, the same 'reasons' why he couldn't get any work done just kept coming around and around and around again.

Overall, I would take the indian I guess, at least he can be safely ignored.
Thunderbolt is the coolest thing here to me. The way I read this, Intel at least partly owns the IP on it, so it should be available on PCs in the future, too? (I hope so, because that will create a bigger peripheral market.)

UPDATE: Answer appears to be "yes."

"...the fastest way to get information in and out of your PC and peripheral devices..."

http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
For a moment I thought the device on the left side of the image was an apple version of this on its side ...

http://gemsres.com/story/apr08/536976/ENGELBART_2.jpg
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Thanks. It’s tough (but usually fun) to try to think about how to build something that will be around for decades. The idea with the 100MB today is that it’ll hold any important documents which you’d like. As the space requirement increases – we’ll increase the allocation.
"To me, the only significant aspects of Web development are data model, SQL queries and transactions, and page flow design. The rest is just glue code that marries HTML templates to information pulled from the database."

Philip Greenspun

http://philip.greenspun.com/book-reviews/web-operations
I upvoted you to cancel out the downvote you got. Spot on.
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I don't think it's a typo, just an estimate. They say they used it normally (i.e. not a rigourous benchmark like Anandtech) for 10 hours and had 67% battery left. I guess they just extrapolated from there.
Nice presentation, thanks again!
I'm pretty happy about the resolution bump for the T400 series, even if it means going to a less square screen.
The Paulina article links to a blog post by Jacques. here's the HN discussion of that post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245063
Yes.

I was a first timer on the first unibody. I still LOVE it. I've never loved a PC, Dell, Sony, HP, ACER, Lenovo or otherwise. Part of that is OSX. I find it so much better than Windows, even after having using Windows most of my life.
In that video it looks like safari now auto hides the scrollbar when it's not being used (kinda like on the iphone), seems like an odd thing to do, since 20px of screen space isn't as precious on a desktop as it is on a phone.
But properly understanding what? You can diagram the question all you want, but if you don't know the answer it's pointless, no? Wikipedia is just a source of data.

Given that Jeopardy focuses a lot on literature, I'd also throw in gutenburg project books. And probably a newspaper archive going way back, like the NYT.
Resume looks good, and if properly coupled with Bootcamp it can be great. (think: run a Windows app from OSX, have it reboot straight into the app, and back to OSX as-it-was when you leave Windows :)
Launch PAD 2011: 100 Stellar Startups Presenting At The Launch Conference
Alcohol was slightly involved, otherwise I imagine it would've been a bit different.
Screenshots or it did not happen!
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The Motley Fool has a similar system called CAPS, except that their system is structured around outperforming the S&P 500 index. I like their approach a lot, because it reinforces the oft-forgotten idea that if you're losing to the S&P 500, then a passive investment strategy would have suited you better.
ive been fairly confused about how versions will work, im guessing applications will need to be versions aware for it to be useful, you can do it in the filesystem but without seeing the document in the application that seems kinda useless
It is interesting but largely irrelevant (I haven't read through the whole thing yet but I read through the 18 page summary in the beginning). For example, take a couple of the changes they suggest...

- Raise the Social Security retirement age to 73 while raising SS taxes by nearly 2%

- Reduce Medicare benefits while raising taxes to fund the program by nearly 3%

Both are perfectly reasonable financial suggestions but the political will to accomplish them just doesn't exist. I'll go on record as saying every problem the USA has could be solved if you can find a politician who can sell raising taxes AND cutting services at the same time. But I don't think the person is out there.

Meaning these suggestions have no hope of being implemented and are largely just a mental exercise.
Isn't making it rich why most people get involved in the startup communities?

And is the state of the education system - and a realistic view of who walks into the best jobs - not a topic that should interest hackers / entrepreneurs - a lot of whom have gone to the top schools, etc?

Should HN only be about pure VC/startup content, rather than the mix of subjects it has always been?
This is one of those things where having the platform vendor provide an app store (especially one that is presumed to become the dominant method of app distribution and that they've shown they're willing to "curate aggressively" when they feel like it) can allow the vendor to push forward faster - they can easily lay down the law that all apps on the Store have to support these features as appropriate by, say, 3 mos after Lion ships.

It prioritizes the platform vendor's feature desires over those of the developer or the users' direct vote, but I think it's wonderful for the industry to have at least one vendor (and one who arguably has good taste!) doing so.
Thanks for the feedback. This is one of the main things we're trying to get right.

To answer your question about the scores, we are using collective intelligence to generate the stock ratings. Ideally the scores will be a kind of average opinion of everyone on the site.

One thing that makes StockYoyo different than other collective intelligence rating sites is that our ratings actually affect how you score when you pick the stock. We reward contrarian opinion and try to drive the ratings to zero. With enough users that means any non-zero rating should hopefully be a meaningful indicator of sentiment.

Unfortunately, we're not sure any of this is very clear and we're not entirely sure how to make it clear without users having to read our scoring FAQ. Better UI? Tool tips? walkthrough?
I remember believing (though without any supporting evidence) that this was one reason why SmallTalk couldn't possibly catch on commercially. The system was so mutable that any kind of support was impossible, there as no way the support person could know what your system configuration was.
Seriously. As a non-Mac user, I really can't see going out of my way to use anything other than USB at this point, especially with USB3 being in the same ballpark in terms of speed.
There is indeed this overlap and clutter on the 13". I think this is because much within the Air is still pretty new stuff for most people: SSD, ditching optical drives. So if people want to pay for performance as they now know it, they'll go for the Pro version. But I doubt there will be a next generation of 13 inch Pros.
I wish HN had a ``show only informative replies'' button, if you'll excuse this cheap shot at you.

Perhaps I don't understand and/or notice some of the ways the article fails. I lurk here to learn something new, so I wish fellow HNers would explain the reasoning behind their critique.

But if you were referring to the submission title only, that's another story...
An SLA should specify penalties for missing the target. You can offer 100% uptime as the SLA, knowing that you'll only hit x%, but if the cost of compensating for 100-x% is less than the value of offering the SLA at 100% it's worth doing.

An SLA only ever guarantees commercial remedies, not service availability.
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Thanks for organizing the meetup! I will be there.
USB2 and FireWire were close to the same speed. Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB3 and can push DisplayPorts, so I doubt it will be the same.
Mah boiiiii, 100% uptime is what all true coders strive for.
Mail 5 looks almost exactly like Sparrow: http://sparrowmailapp.com/

Although, if Mail 5 is inspired by Mail on the iPad, it's probably more fair to say that Sparrow looks almost exactly like Mail on the iPad. Also, is that right that the developer preview is being distributed via the Mac App Store? How does that work?

I will say though, I'm looking forward to impressing potential clients with some fancy swiping at the coffee shop :)
I don't think using a "warning! high voltage!" symbol for this will fly in Europe... (thankfully)
That really is twisted. What exactly would that involve?
Agree – cracking this market is an interesting challenge. One of the biggest hurdles we’ve got is that people really don’t like thinking about their own demise. As for estate planners, we are working with a few and the feedback so far has been very positive, basically it has been “this is great, how can we work together to provide this service for my clients.”

Yep, we are aware of LegacyLocker and the other players. We are hoping we can build the best product and the most trusted company in the space.
love it, would also be cool to see a wordpress to tumblr exporter :)
Have you used OS X before?

I pay the Mac premium for two reasons: (1) my laptop is supported by tons of Apple Stores across the country, and (2) OS X is awesome (and since it's Unix-based, I can work in the terminal without a problem). There's also a great reselling market for Macs.

If (1) and (2) don't really matter to you, go with the Dell. I'll pay the extra price to get exactly what I want in my computer.
Full-screen apps, auto save, versions, and resume all have an asterisk in their descriptions: available with apps that have been developed to work with Lion.
"I wounder when is Yahoo shutting down."

Perhaps if they bought themselves ...
I'm not offended, I just felt the discussion was taking an unnecessary turn towards the unproductive side, about a point that is simply not worth the effort we both have so far unwisely invested into this exchange ;-)

I do believe "weasel words" are important, not only because stating personal opinion as fact is impolite, but mainly because it can be vital for the structure of an argument to distinguish possibilities, speculation, belief, theory, and factual data.
30 hours (claimed) battery life?

That sounds ridiculous. How close (or far away) to the truth is that? Anybody know more?
The bandwidth is apparently entirely unimpressive. DisplayPort is currently at 17.28 Gbps, so Thunderbolt can push ... 0.6 monitors? ;) (In the worst case, at least)

I have been excited about Light Peak/Thunderbolt for a year or so now, but in that time it seems the ambitions have become smaller, and the competition has developed as well.
Hyperthreading. 2 physical core, 4 logical.
What do they use it for?
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The developer program has always included the server versions.

At least it did up until they put out the iPhone developer program and didn't give the paid up Apple developers access without stumping up even more cash, which was the point where I rage-quit (would have been 2007 or 2008).
I'll offer feedback on the ratings system. My one gripe with your site is that the "buy" or "sell" justifications provided by your users seem weak. For example:

Electric cars are pretty modern now and Tesla is one of the few companies, that really can offer some excitement to them

- User Vlado

If you'd really like these guys to learn about investing, you should think about putting prompts in to get them considering the various factors that might lead to this being a successful investment:

* What's this company's valuation?
* How does it compare in the competitive landscape?
* How well-capitalized is it?
* Etc, etc.

It seems like these are "bus station judgments" in large part, where people go "i like this company, it will do well." Build in prompts for deeper consideration if you really want to teach people something and generate useful data.
Along the lines of display errors, you have a problem with your slides when a user has JavaScript disabled: http://i.imgur.com/lThGo.jpg. I think you could set slide.p2, slide.p3, and slide.p4 with display:none; initially in your css, as opposed to doing it via JavaScript as the page loads, to account for this.
Do you need Apple specific software? If not, go with the gear at a good price that lasts long. I had a Dell business grade laptop, Compaq, and a 13" macbook pro. Dell died twice and was repaired on their dime, Compaq lasted 8 years and still works except the sound card burning out, and my 3 year old macbook, is a-ok as well. Compaq was $1150, Dell was $1500, and the MBP was $1350.

For my software dev, all of them worked well. For gaming, they all sucked.
I wonder which of the Xoom and the 10" Galaxy tab will come out the strongest. I'll be getting one of those two for sure. The Notion Ink is out for me.
All Macs except the low end plastic MacBook and the MacBook Air have a FireWire 800 port. So, no. (Also: Why would they dump FireWire without a replacement in place or even just the lab?)

This will probably replace FireWire sooner or later.
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Two words: Gold Standard.

I'm not falling into that "restate them correctly" trap where you interpret some phrase differently than me so I'm an idiot. Gold standard is crazy without even needing an explanation.
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Secret to understanding/using LaTeX is to have at hand two books: Guide to LaTeX by Kopka and Daly, and The LaTeX Companion by Mittelbach and Goossens. That plus a project to publish (similar to have a task you want to program) should be enough to get you going. The real problem with LaTeX seems to be retention over time without continued use--- if you don't use it more or less all the time, you tend to forget a lot of the basics...
Once I set myself a challenge of asking "How are you feeling today?" to at least one strange person on the tube a day. Good for getting out of your comfort zone as a networker :)
I also saw your demo at the HNDC meetup last night - nice job, and kudos for being brave enough to get up in front of a room full of critics.

Some feedback:

- Without seeing the demo, I'm not sure I would easily get what the site is about from a quick glance at the home page. You have some nice wording -- "A free and enjoyable way to learn about investing" -- but it's part of a scrolling animation and doesn't jump out at you. I also don't see the word "game" anywhere on the front page. It seems like your two key themes are "fun" and "learning" and those don't quite stand out enough.

- The actual game mechanics are a little confusing - why would users actually care about being the "executive" of a company? As an investor, I might care about learning more, or being exposed to good advice, but to assume that people will be motivated to win a game just because you created it seems like an overreach.

- Why would StockYoyo picks be better than one of the million other investing sites out there? For that reason, why would it be better than the ultimate "wisdom of crowds" valuation -- the market itself?

I could imagine that one of the numerous self-managed investment sites out there would benefit from having a compelling, easy to use game where aspiring investors could learn but then also easily transfer their picks into real money when they are ready. I'm thinking of the online poker model -- a .net site to learn with play money, a .com to use the real stuff. There might be some significant regulatory hoops to jump through to get this working but I can see real potential there.
I think more like MobileMe mail/iPad mail:

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/#mail-5
This is a good idea. It would be interesting to see people answering questions such as: At what valuation would you sell this stock? What do you think is a reasonable P/E for this company, and why? If the company isn't cash flow positive, in what timeframe do you expect it to turn the corner?
I am guessing that these features are 'simply' a recompile away if the software uses Apple API's for all its document handling.