skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Apple will eventually replace the dock connector on the iPhone/iPad with Thunderbolt? That would be a compelling reason to upgrade: your music sync time would be freed of another bottleneck.

Of course, it kind of messes with the third-party accessory market, but I'm sure they'd love another reason to get people to buy new stuff.
You could do more to get the potential customer comfortable with your product. 7 days and $50 is a lot to request of people, when there is competition for this service. It looks like one of those competing tools was created by you, http://impossibility.org . And for full disclosure, I am working on a domain name suggestion tool too: http://domainjig.com

During testing, I learned that many different opinions exist about what makes a good domain name. So while you may have settled the matter in your own head, you should take care to set expectations for your customers. A quick list of domains you think are good (perhaps also domains you think are not good) would help people see if they agree with your priorities.

For instance, I've heard differing opinions about the importance of these characteristics:

.com only vs other Top Level Domains

fewer characters vs simpler concepts

distribution mechanisms: SEO, ads, word of mouth

misspellings, or non-obvious spellings

similar style to recent successful startups

country-specific registrar risk

combine TLD letters into the word

non-english languages

adjective + noun

rhyming / puns

describes the product and/or a tone

As an example, this article describes priorities baked-in to the domain name suggestion tool at domainjig.com : http://domainjig.com/ideas/great-domain-names.html

btw, I like the eyebrow raise on mouseover.
Find a way to generate enough revenue to pay them, get funding or a loan, or trade time for equity. If you can't get one of those three to work and you can't do the work yourself, then you don't really have much of a startup.
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That's now the case everywhere, as per http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/whats-new.html#a...

"Mac OS X Lion introduces overlay scrollbars similar to those in iOS. These scrollbars appear as an overlay on top of the window's content while the user is scrolling and remain visible briefly to allow scrollbar dragging."
Great point. I'm in Seattle, and have good access to angels and VCs here -- but it looks different in the Bay Area; I have some Bay Area connections but am not yet at the stage where I want to call in favors. So this is a total bluebird for me.
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You aren't giving me enough information. When I view a company the only data that I get are the current price(how current?), and the value based on user votes.

The game mechanics are a good start, but you need to find the sweet spot between where you are and sites like updown.com.

I agree with an earlier commenter that putting things in terms of beating the S&P 500 is a good reference. Your current focus on up/down this week is a little short sited for most investors. I know you need to recurring traffic, but I think you may have abstracted too much from how investing decision are actually made.

If you had tokens that could be placed on stocks and won by beating the S&P; a weekly leader board of who made the most tokens, and positions in the company where awarded to who made the most/least tokens from that company.
Incorporated most of the comments...Thanks for the review guys.
The whole idea behind indexing is that it is extremely difficult to beat the market, so why not just buy the market.

One does not need to do "work" to invest in companies. You place a bet, and you make your return. If you want to bust your ass deciding what bets to make, that's your choice, but the markets would work quite well on their own.
Tablets have only been around in their present form for a few months. This particular tablet has been around for a few hours. Don't you think it's a bit too early to argue about what "typical tasks" on them will be?

Give it some time before suggesting you know exactly how users will use their tablets.
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You should give some example names you came up with. This is like going to a designer without a portfolio.
What if Apple invented the ISA Port?
As others have pointed out, this post is from 2005. In the past 6 years, the cost of scalability has dropped sharply, and shooting for three 9's should be the minimum for most sites. It doesn't cost thousands to go from 98% to 99% any more, and to 99.9% is still pretty cheap.

Sure, five and six 9's does get expensive, and that will depend on your cost of downtime (ie: lost sales, etc.).
How old is your RVM installation? As far as I know recent RVM installations always have gemsets. When you didn't create any gemsets you're implicitly using the default gemset named 'default'.
He also makes the mistaken assumption that she would have done something income-earning had she not got her refund. She could have simply gone home and watched TV earned nothing and she would be down 37 cents.
Apple has never attempted to be everything to everyone. Why would you expect anything different?

And why not just use a USB dongle?
Heh... 3 years ago, I registered several domains around offering exactly this service.
What happens if I plug a PC into another PC via thunderbolt?
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http://www.infoq.com/articles/azul_gc_in_detail#appendixa

^^^ Details how their read barrier works.
I think many times a big chunk of the price difference comes from the display on Apple laptops. Someone with more knowledge on this could probably explain it better, but I usually notice a better viewing angle and brighter, more vivid colors.

In addition to that you've got the battery life, the thinness and the great touch pad
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African American hairstyles vary widely from short to long cuts so there is a lot to choose from if you are looking to accomplish some very good looking African American hairstyles.
You be the judge... should links like these be devalued or penalized?

http://support.coastal.edu/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=304
Apple seems to be targetting a whole different sector with this technology. See Cringley's take on this (http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/attack-of-the-minis/) about how this technology could go into data centers. Interesting move by Apple.
I’m happily using my FireWire 800 port on my 2007 MacBook Pro. I don’t really have a problem with the competition.

(What’s nice for Apple is that this port isn’t exactly risky for them. If it doesn’t succeed their Macs have a glorified Mini DisplayPort with a lighting bolt symbol next to it. It might cost a bit more for them to add but that’s about it. It seems to me that only Intel has a problem if this fails.)
Tell HN: Domo spin-off idea
Imagine an app like Domo, but focused solely on entrepreneurs and angels/VC's. Users from either side of the fence could switch it on when they're free or could make time to meet and the app would notify users when an available party of the other kind was free and near to them. Pre-pitching process serendipity made real.
He apparently hasn't heard of dividends.
Things to Know Before Starting a Mobile Company
Agreed. Having said that, there is a correlation for sites that go down when they are hit by a spike in traffic.

The danger, of course, is that when something happens to cause a spike (news mention, post goes viral, etc), that's exactly when you can't go down.
That’s a strong defense of individual investors’ decisions to invest in index funds. But that excess performance is only possible if active managers are trading stocks. At some point, someone has to decide that one company is a buy and another company is a sell—if we all invested solely in index funds, share prices would move in lockstep (disregarding liquidity).

Its a self-correcting scenario. If that were truly the case, then people would start to trade actively, since trading actively would be an easy way to "beat the market".
That's cool.

No, wait, my book? I haven't written a book.

Have I?
In the year I've had my current MacBook, I've used the optical drive maybe 10 times:
-I've started burning CDs again because I just bought a car from 2003, too new for a tape adapter and too old for aux input.
-Occasional DVDs, but most video comes over the web.
-Occasional software installation, but I get most software via the web these days.

Burning CDs full of data is already an idea long gone with the advent of various flash devices. Practically no one burns CDs of music anymore since CD players are pretty much gone. Even DVDs are fading; Apple has a vested interest in this happening faster since they sell media online in any case.

With high-speed I/O, an external drive would work just fine for folks who need to read or burn disks only occasionally. These days, that's most people.
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I've noticed that Matt Cutts always dances around the question of whether links in PDF's count.
Also remember that the doc connector is a revenue source. I'm having trouble finding a source right now, but if I am remembering right Apple sells the actual dock connectors to accessory makers.
Came here to say this, but probably less concisely; I'll also add that index funds are no different then a fund buying a 'basket' of stocks, except that it's accessible to the average investor.

'Ma can't buy & rebalance the S&P 500, but buying SPY ain't a bad way to do it [not that I'd be doing that today].
FYI, this is the second one we've done. One of the Sigma Partners guys also volunteered their time. We should have one more on the way from a smaller fund, hopefully they won't fill up as quickly so you can grab a time slot.
Shouldn't this be cheaper the younger I am?

My chances of dying at 27 are not as high as 24 USD per year.
OpenGL 3.2, huh? Well, I guess it's better than nothing, but had a faint hope Apple will skip ahead to 4.0 or even 4.1. Next time around it seems.
Two jobs ago I had to clock out, using a program installed on my computer, to go to the bathroom.

The program sometimes crashed.

I also had to fill out a paper timesheet, in case the computer one was wrong. My manager and I both had to sign it.

I printed a TPS Report cover and posted it on my cubicle in silent protest. And I happily moved on when the time came.
Perhaps true, but how exactly would you mate the connector with a high voltage power source without a massive amount of kludgery?
That's the conventional view of indexing. But I'm arguing that it's akin to pointing out that it's very hard to pay more for Bittorrent than you do for Netflix, thus we should avoid paying for media we like.

"The Market" is the sum of the actions of individuals, some of whom are making actual, useful decisions. Can you describe how a market would work if everybody thought about it the way you're thinking about it?
Damn it! :( Yet another release that still doesn't merge my mod_dir fix. :( :( I am so sick of having to maintain my own copy of this thing.

https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/pull/3
The Mac I'm working on is the last Apple product I plan on buying. Not interested in further subsidizing their attempts to normalize restrictive computing models on their iOS platforms.
This isn't even going to happen. There really are guys who can beat the market. Insider knowledge, or just plain old expert knowledge of a particular market sector. Not trying to beat those guys is a damn good advice. And those guys have no reason to quit.
Azul's systems are pretty much the definition of high-volume. Nobody (sane) buys an embarrassingly parallel machine with custom hardware and software just to host their blog on it.
Where are you seeing 1080p on the 15"? I have the last-gen 15" with the anti-glare upgrade, but was disappointed only to be able to get 1680x1050, so I was pretty excited at the prospect of that much higher a resolution. Looking at the site, though, the upgrade is still just 1680x1050.

I think I'll just continue to hold out hope that the rumored refresh of the Air line, offering Sandy Bridge chips, comes in June.

That said, I agree; if you don't specifically need quad-core or Thunderbolt (which does look pretty cool), the previous generation is very solid, and I'm quite happy with mine.
Mail.app supports it as well. It's saved me more than once.
Still no talk about resolution independent UI or some sort of DPI scaling. I have to wonder how people are using OS X on their 27" iMacs with very high-res screens. My eyes bleed on my 17" MBP with 1920x1200 - Windows DPI scaling works quite well for the most part.
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How Robonaut 2 Will Help Astronauts In Space
Because it's more profitable for Apple if you get your 3G from a tethered iPhone?
It really seems to me a lot of this is about making your current peripherals obsolete so they can sell you new ones.
if I enroll for $99 now would I still get a dev preview of Lion? I am already an iOS member.
Resume is something I've wanted from an operating system for a long time. Nothing is more frustrating than leaving your computer for an hour, only to come back and realize updates demanded that they restart your computer and you need to relaunch all your applications, videos, etc.
The verbiage on the site is well written.

Kudos.
Or Apple refurb. That's what I did, and it saved me nearly 20% off retail.
Buying a group of stocks is an actual, useful decision. That's how it works.
I know, it is hard to imagine but you can have that with ThinkPad (with external battery that gets attached to a bottom)
Addition, subtraction and order relationships (ie > & <) are the only math that really matters.

Not convinced? Count the number of * and / in any source file and compare that to the number of + and -

Not to say that math is not useful, it's useful if math related stuff is what you do, which is a very small subset of what CS is about.
Well, sort-of. I prefer the Amazon-IMDb example
$0.99 is nothing really, if you've already bought into the Apple ecosystem. It's just a nice way to drive people into the app store and make sure they have a credit card on file :)
Microsoft says phone update failed 1 in 10 users
What is it about the MBA that you don't like? Perhaps understanding what feature(s) are not suitable we can make a better recommendation.
Did you buy from an Apple store? Even if you are a little over the 30 days, they might let you upgrade for the difference.
And so is FW unless you buy one of the very expensive interfaces that happens to have highly optimized fine tuned drivers.

Source: personal experience finding the drivers of most FW audio interfaces under $1000 impose outrageous CPU loads when doing many channels and using more than one device on the supposedly daisy chainable FW bus.
It does USB, HDMI, Firewire, displayport et cetera... its one connector to rule them all (though there will need to be a few adapters!)

No need to replace your peripherals.
Ask HN: Who works from home?
As a followup to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2250526, I was wondering how many HNers work from home. And for those that do, how did you begin that arrangement?
A simple pin-adaptor turns a FW800 port into a FW400 port - they’re electrically compatible.
In the long run, Thunderbolt aims to replace USB, FireWire, Ethernet, DisplayPort/HDMI/etc, eSATA and be considered an external variant of PCIe.

This is feasible and would be a good future, just like the future we live in now where USB has replaced serial ports, parallel ports and PS/2.
tl;dr: we really don't know, but it's a slow news day and we could cram a whole bunch of speculation under a good linkbait headline in order to serve you these nifty ads.
It's not meant to be an apples-to-apples comparison, just a reality check. One group of people made a ton of money by betting their reputations and working insanely hard. Another group of people made slightly more money, in the aggregate, by listening to a compelling jingle on the radio.

Of course hedge funds trade ETFs. They're really liquid. Most market participants can see why they immediately, directly benefit from investing in indices--the cost is collective. It is a little bit like dishonesty; we might all be happier if nobody lied, but everybody knows that they, personally, can benefit from telling white lies.

I'm not calling for index funds to be shut down. That would be counterproductive. I'm just suggesting that, in at least a Kantian sense, you feel bad about yourself if you invest in them.
Ask HN: Review my startup, ClueMe
I use ClueMe to refresh things I want to know. For example, after reading on HN that there is a ISO-standard for storing sexes in a database, I made a short note that I repeat regularly.

All the entries in the global categories are questions, but around seventy percent of my personal entries are notes.

In addition to the general knowledge categories, I have made a group with HTML5 and CSS questions (under Groups->Programming).

If someone is inclined to check it out, I'd also be very happy to get some feedback on the admin part (requires login with a Google or Facebook account).

A special thanks to Natsu who designed my favicon and saved me £584 ;) (background: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176227) .

The address is http://www.clueme.net

UPDATE: I screwed up trying to cache the initial categories (The GO-buttons didn't work). Now it should be fixed.
It might be the case that simply saving the document creates a new version. Not exactly version control but quite good compared to nothing. Apple tends to omit details like that.
A group’s “intelligence” depends in part on its members’ ignorance
Absolutely agree. Execute first and make $5 online instead of reading books on how to make your first $1 million.

But I don't see you writing this comment as a problem. If it reaffirms your beliefs, results in you taking action, and teaches someone, you have just taught two people something. Back to work...
Pretty sure that Apple's dock connector is sold directly by JAE -- it's the 'DD1' listed here: http://www.jae-connector.com/en/general_en.cfm?series_code=D...
I recall it being because Apple screwed up the licensing so bad ($1 per port) that everyone got together to create and then push USB 2.0 as a replacement even after the royalties got reduced to something semi-reasonable like 25c per device.
Apple's displays don't have that second port, but you are correct about the daisy chaining, I see.
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It seems to me that there are few reasons to switch from one scripting/dynamic language to another. One would be a compelling framework/library, the other would be performance. However, it seems that switching from Python to Ruby to PHP would amount to negligible performance differences if the code was well designed. Otherwise, if it were a problem of scale, then you would likely switch to something lower level/compiled me thinks.
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Clickable http://www.clueme.net
Except that it doesn't seem to be a straight copy of a touchscreen UI shoehorned into a mouse and keyboard UI like Sparrow is.
You needed a service, so you searched for it based on features and cost? When I need to solve a problem, I wait for my social graph to to create buzz OR a lean startup to convince me to pay for a product that doesn't exist, but they promise to build and launch for me in a weekend ;-)
Then why not just use the web client? It has 100% integration.
If we assume the average song is 3 minutes, that's nearly 6 years of continuous listening...
It means the same to those of us with English as a first language.
Understood, I'm just curious if anyone has hands-on experience. I have a high-volume, low-latency app and I'm curious about the ROI on this vs non-commercial solultions.
Well, let's see:

2560 x 1440 resolution at 24 bits per pixel = 88,473,600 bits

At 60Hz, that's 5,308,416,000 bits per second. So a little more than half the claimed 10Gbit bandwidth of Thunderbolt. I guess you're not going to be running two of them on the same port.
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If it's backwards compatible with USB then why do they still have USB ports on the side of that MacBook? Why not replace all the ports with this?
It has two independent 10Gbps channels, so it can do 20Gbps.
Can anybody shed light on the possibility of DRM or some implementation of Tilt-bits to restrict output from this port to high resolution screens etc?
Exactly. I don't see how a company that sells business-critical (I assume) software can so proudly proclaim that they don't care all that much about downtime. He does say 'we're still here', so yeah probably for them it doesn't matter. They're mostly great at marketing anyway. But for any service, to fail on me 5 minutes before my presentation starts and I just want to look up the customer's name and position again, and then finding out that you can't access your data - that'd be enough to dump them the next day for me.
I don't think it's less battery life - it's just measured more accurately.

Love the quad core.

Hate the CD drive - fill up that space with something useful, not a dead weight. I'd have to install an optibay adapter with SSD but I don't see why I'd want to to hack a brand new laptop.
I'm referring to the "2011 Page Load Test - Average" chart at the bottom of the page.
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Looks like http://www.entrustet.com
Plus, check out the offender/douche's nasty legal threats about 12 comments down.
Zappos does something similar with their HTTP headers:

X-Core-Value:2. Embrace and Drive Change
X-Johnny-Unitas-Says:drupal03.zappos.net - Navel fluff is mostly a male phenomenon.
X-Powered-By:Ponies!
X-Recruiting:If you're reading this, maybe you should be working at Zappos instead. Check out jobs.zappos.com
Maybe more profitable for AT&T. It's not like you're not going to buy an iPhone because they add 3G to their laptops.
"always be the worst musician in every band you’re in" -- GOLD!

FYI, the continue reading link either shouldn't be on the page, or it should take you to the rest of the article - not sure if I got everything or not.
I have a meeting at 7, but I'll stop by after that!
I like Anand's reviews the best - quite a bit comprehensive and well structured.

The two details I was looking for - Battery life and Display quality were both covered - no loss of battery life vs. iPad even with the great performance boost and Display isn't as good for $800 tablet.

Then there is attention to detail - the power adapter tip is very tiny and likely prone to easy breakage which would mean replacing entire power adapter.

There is a section for content transfer - quite useful to know that they switched to MTP which means no software requirement for Windows users to sync content but Mac users need to download an app for that.
I'm not calling for index funds to be shut down. That would be counterproductive. I'm just suggesting that, in at least a Kantian sense, you feel bad about yourself if you invest in them.

Wow, I really don't think you understand how a market works.
I 'verun into this on Windows XP, but never on Mac OS X. Actually, I don't think Windows 7 forces reboots either, it just installs updates when you shut down or restart.
That's not really relevant as long as you can't choose the directions for the channels. You are only going to get one channel in each direction.

Edit: Whoa. I just re-read parts of the Intel documentation, and it seems there are indeed two independent downstream channels. My bad. It also looks like there is no provision for using both channels for a single device? I have no idea.