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2x10Gbps is still enough to drive two 2560x1600 displays at 60Hz, which is all the prior DisplayPort implementation could do.
Congrats!

I really like when Brian's grandfather (Brian is CEO and founder) found idea just fine, as that's the way people were "travelling" 60+ years ago - they just stayed at someone's house. Like history reinvented.
Do you want to be the king or to be rich? Ask yourself that.
If you merge with the company, you'll have a better shot at becoming rich, but dramatically lose your stake in your current product. If you want to be the king, then keep pursuing your own endeavor.

So think it over, and talk it over with your partners and determine your priority. If it's money, it'd be a better choice to choose to merge, if not, then why not take on more risk if you really believe your product? Your odds of getting venture backed is definitely higher since your competitor's offer, but at the same time, since your launch is no longer in stealth and you have raised your competitor's awareness, it'll be much tougher to grab market share.
The monster is back.

>Itanium relies on the compiler to optimize code at run-time

Thats sums it up for me :)

But seriously - in case when compiler is able to do parallelization, NVidia GPU seems to be a better - cheaper, more accessible and performant - target.
there's also a CL db named elephant
http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/
A large enough prefetch buffer can overcome a really dumb compiler.

haha words for life
Note: <tfoot> must appear before <tbody> within a table, so that a browser can render the foot before receiving all the rows of data.

^^I saw that on my first google search.
Cmon man, I didn't say it is impossible to build scalable web apps with it. The php landscape's lack of an equivalent to rack is an insane situation for a 'web' language, and a good example of why it's a bad choice of platform if you have the option.

Yes, you can write scalable web apps with php.. you can also walk everywhere on your hands; but it's unnecessarily painful and awkward, so most sensible people avoid doing it on a regular basis.
While loading this URL, my browser gets stuck showing 'connecting to s2.wp.com'.

Is it just me?
As a Linux user I find it funny when OSX is compared to a Unix OS since it has a terminal. That's like saying Nextstep (what OSX is based on) is an acceptable OSX
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Thunderbolt may be technically superior in every single way, but unless other manufacturers use it for their laptops/motherboards, Apple's 10ish% market share is going to ensure that USB 3.0 "wins" ultimately. This will wind up being just like firewire where aside from Apple's stuff and a select few "Apple" manufacturers, nobody uses it and consumers either buy the more expensive Apple stuff, or use a dongle and see 0 benefit from the superior tech.
Additionally, if you make an update and write bad data to ElephantDB, you can easily delete the bad version and roll back to a version with good data.

To be fair, HBase has this too. As long as you don't overwrite 3 times (configurable, on a per-column family basis), you are fine.

I must say that an alternative to HBase which just works is mighty tempting. I'm using HBase, and about half of the nasty problems I've run into have been caused by either HBase directly or making HBase talk to Django (the thrift interface works nicely in batch jobs, but causes all sorts of problems in a webapp). Will definitely check out elephant.
Well, I think the ipad style of app is intriguing--they differ from a current desktop app in a few significant ways:

1. There's no notion of save.
2. There's no notion of quit.
3. There's no notion of filesystem.

Those are all interesting tweaks.

Having the app save things automatically and always present you with the most up-to-date version of your document is kind of cool actually. But, you say, "I don't want it to save my document sometimes--what if I want to experiment and then throw away the changes?" I think that is where the new "versions" feature fits in. It seems designed to give people exactly that. I suspect that ⌘S will change from "Save" to "Snapshot".

Having the app suspend itself, save its state and unload at the appropriate time is interesting too. It gives the app a sense of persistence that doesn't exist in most desktop apps currently. I've already subconsciously switched to this style of thinking. I like my Firefox set up to restore the windows from last time. I do a similar thing with my Emacs so that all my buffers get saved and restored (emacs-desktop).

I think I'd have a hard time letting go of my filesystem. I don't see anything in Lion that seems to indicate they are moving that way. But I kind of understand it. It'll probably start moving that direction eventually. But who knows.
Ask HN: Is there a good Open Source WP plugin for creating paid membership sites
Anyone know of a good Open Source Wordpress plugin for creating paid membership websites. The popular plugins like Wishlist and Amember seem to be paid software. I'm wondering if there is an active free software alternative.
arhh yes, the X41 - the last laptop I had before I went Mac.

I called it my Darth Vadar laptop - strong, sleek black frame, powerful, ugly yet strangely beautiful at the same time.

The problem is the X41 always suffered from poor resolution, and certainly that is true by today's standards. I wield a MBP with hi-res matte screen and 1680 x 1050 in a 15" package used at 2 feet from my eyes is basically like a Retina display.
This reminded me of a nice article on the decline of burglary in the UK: http://www.economist.com/node/2709203?story_id=2709203

Except, of course, crime is only cool if you're not the victim.
And the assurance that it will actually work as advertised. I don't want to spend the time and effort to get OSX working on non-Apple hardware. Maybe it will take little time and effort. Maybe it won't. I'm willing to pay to not find out.
My 2 year old X200 still gets a good 3-4 hours of battery time with a cycle count of 670, so YMMV :)

I will say, though, there have been some quality issues with my x200 as well. The fan has a tendency to get stuck, the case feels like it's starting to come apart, and the screen surface has some smudges that are impossible to remove (and increasingly annoying). Still, not bad for a laptop that has traveled the world, been treated very roughly, and used almost every day for several hours a day. I'd buy another Thinkpad in a heartbeat.
Your mid-2010 13-17" MBP's *will* support HDMI audio/video
Here's the issue, I've read multiple other articles saying the exact opposite: you should buy DF ads, you should buy ads on the iPhone review sites, etc.

In this article they are staking out a position somewhat against the conventional wisdom and contrary to what they've previously recommended people doing. Given that context, I think it's important that they back that up with some data and a some description of their thought process.
> A. They don't automatically close.

That's strange. They automatically close for me and I didn't change any settings anywhere.

I would be nice if they were just Growl notifications however.
Well, most (all?) public universities let you check out books from their libraries without being enrolled. And many professors will let you sit in on lectures if you're polite and not a disturbance. So in that sense it's been possible to 'mooch free learning' off of universities for some time.

But this takes away the barrier of having to actually visit a campus. I think of it as 'freemium' marketing, but for academia.
I'm gonna go squirrel fishing right now!
Safari is multi-process now, and Web pages run sandboxed by the OS. Does that count as an invisible part of Lion?
Because serial is a trivial interface to implement in home brew electronics, just throw in a MAX232.

Even many major consumer electronics are still developed via a serial console. Sure they have fancier connectors to talk to your PC and the network but serial is so simple it's practically idiot proof. So it breaks far less often, makes new hardware much simpler to bring up, and it allows you to debug the fancier interfaces without interfering with their operations.
He can plug it into the new Thunderbolt plug with a simple adapter. Thunderbolt is already compatible with USB and Firewire.
May be they wanted it to fit together more seamlessly than if they were to use the existing pieces?
Thanks for posting about us HardyLeung! Swing by our booth if you have time and hope you're enjoying the launch conference.
Rust :)

Compiled, concurrent, and memory-safe, with no global GC.

(Full disclosure: I work on Rust.)
Unfortunately? Personally I say fortunately, more power to them.

I just wish there was a way Anon could F with wallstreet, those clowns are next in line for a beatdown in my book.
Yeah, it's overlooked by many that the Chrome isn't all that extensible compared to what you can do in Firefox with addons. Chrome's developer tools are built in because they must be, whereas Firebug should be able to do anything that Firefox does natively (though I think it may be mostly Javascript now).
get 3 of them for the same price here: http://www.meritline.com/mini-displayport-to-hdmi-adapter---...
Thanks for posting this straw-man, Brian [disclosure - I'm an investor in RescueTime, and talked to Brian about this idea earlier]. If I might kick off this discussion ...

I think it's a cool idea if done right. If I can summarize your post:

- My RescueTime data *proves* I'm a hot-shot developer.
- I opt-in to receive job offers from top technology companies.
- They get to send offers to a pre-screened group of targeted devs.
- I remain anonymous unless I want to pursue an offer.
- I score an awesome job with a company I already love.

Seems like a nice process to get around the pre-screening aspect of the recruiting process. And I bet it would work well for occupations like "developer", "web designer", etc.

Just don't spam users or give out personal information to companies w/o permission.
Day to day tasks, I'm pretty equally efficient in any OS, but OSX's significant "lifetime of ownership" time savings for me has been system maintenance. I've never needed to reformat and reinstall a Mac, and when I've voluntarily done it (hackintoshing), restoring a complete system from Time Machine backups has been absolutely painless.

Major OSX updates have never been a problem either (although I've read accounts of errors happening), I've carried one Macbook from 10.4 to 10.6 without ever reinstalling. I've been burned a couple times trying to do distribution upgrades with Ubuntu, I've never had a Windows install that didn't need an occasional refresh for some reason, and I wouldn't dare upgrade from XP->Vista->7. I've not owned Win 7 long enough yet to determine if that will still be the case, but Windows' history has me skeptical.

Just my experience. The Mac price difference has paid for itself many times over for systems I depend on and family I support.
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I have a question. What's wrong with coming out with a paid app for, say $2.99 and then pay 51% to let's say TapJoy? If they don't drive someone to buy your app, you don't pay. If they do, then you get 49% - 30% = 19% of the app. Isn't this essentially risk free and improves your sales numbers?
Right now in the USA I have to imagine there is actually a glut of students. While many of them really do want to learn, I would argue a great majority are enrolled in college because "that's what they're supposed to do." I don't think an institution like MIT is at any risk of running out of potential students any time soon.
Those people are exceedingly rare. And I'm sure applications won't autosave huge files; if they do there would be large performance hits. Most files that need autosaving are basic documents, maybe pictures. 99.9% of the time autosaving is a good idea.

If your autosave makes you run out of disk space, you're probably "doing it wrong".
Streaming Netflix is $8 a month. Its library now is okay. In the next few years, it may approach total coverage of the movies most people want to watch. (There already is plenty of overlap with my collection and what's available through streaming.)

The parent did not assert optical drives were unnecessary. He only suggested they may not be necessary for that person.
Why not have everything as external dongles? How about an external soundcard? Or external wifi-module? External card-reader? External auxiliary videocard for hooking up external monitirs?

There's a value in having stuff built in. Where do you draw the line?
>the New York Times reported that there were 23,068 reported pickpocketing incidents in the city in 1990, amounting to nearly $10 million in losses.

That's over $400 per incident. Either people carry a hell of a lot of cash on them or there are some outliers with some interesting stories to tell.
A recurring meme in terms of frameworks is people keep bringing out tools and some of them disappear, some find niche applications, and some become mainstream. Though I haven't heard of many nlp toolkits (but I'm not in that field).

I want to jump into some basic NLP, but I'd like to stick with one or two toolkits. I had heard of nltk before this, but are there any other comprehensive or sort of succesful frameworks out there one should be aware of? (Either in python or something else)
If Not Now, When?
Interesting guy, who has been hacking on interesting things since before I was born - and I'm not all that young.
Thanks. The UI for this is not very obvious. Had I known this with Word I would have used it for a while now. I'll have to try it now.
Not the original poster, but I think it'll fail in the sense of "won't actually invent and tie together all the new components that this press release claims will be invented and tied together", even without including marketplace considerations.

However I agree that it'll likely produce interesting research advances and usable components, and some up-front overselling is probably unavoidable... saying something like, "we're initiating a collection of research projects to produce technologies that will be needed for a future generation of operating systems" isn't as good PR as saying, "we're building the next-gen operating system".
Good points. Some of the thinking behind this is inspired by an old site I worked on in 2006 which let you pick tags that represented your skills. This is better because you don't have to pick, we should be able to derive them. That project was engineering focused because that's what we knew best. This is definitely going to start that way since we can manually check that any results make sense.
It is still off. It should really be StartupNamingGods.com or LetMeNameYourStartup.com or something else that indicates it is about naming. StartupGods is more like a cocky alias for YC :)
I'm genuinely unable to believe they'd launch with that domain this week, irrespective of how much they'd financially and emotionally invested in the cute domain hack.

It would be amazing even for the beta launch of a service that didn't depend on your trust in their security and ability to maintain uptime.
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I agree. I was a user, and MyBlogLog was nothing but a circle jerk badge of honor for bloggers.
It's $100 for the mini-display port to dual-dvi, and it doesn't even work very well.
Facebook could probably go in either camp. I'm sure they write some of their business logic in php, but they made Thrift for a reason. In particular, isn't their chat written in Erlang and feed stuff written in c++? I've read that they even use Java for some things.
IMHO, beyond a certain project size, rewrites never make sense. You can build a different product to serve the same market, but there's no cost/benefit case to be made for blindly rewriting on a different platform.
You reckon correcly; Lion apparently has support for 'HiDPI' mode, which is essentially pixel doubling.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-i...
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Last night, to rip a DVD from Netflix. Before that, I didn't use it often, to be fair, but I've still used it to install Office, to install OS X, and to burn a DVD with the complete audio _Ulysses_ on it.

Do I use it as often as I did, say, 10 years ago? No, but I can imagine why Apple would leave it.
Only the Mac Pro is a true screenless tower.
Radical innovation is not about making things more efficient, or simpler, or easier, in broad terms. It's about investing in transformative technologies.

I agree with you that radical innovation doesn't come from just making things more efficient/simpler/easier, and I've argued that such a mindset yields local max solutions. The example of Fabricly was only used to display how an approach that addresses the problem from the root and transforms the way an industry operates is what radical innovation is (not about social shopping). Your definition seems to confine it to cutting edge industries with cutting edge technology; however, radical innovation could be in retail/food/other age old industries as much as it could be in space/biotech. Radical innovation is ultimately about the transformative result and technology is only a means to get there.
Last night I was wondering if Airbnb has the kind of traffic that would make it feasible to buy a condo somewhere popular (downtown Boston, for example) with the goal of renting it full-time.

I'd love to hear from people who've rented out rooms/apartments through Airbnb in a popular area. How was the demand?
Garry Kasparov on IBM's Watson
Google's Action Against Link Schemes Continues
Yahoo's lasting legacy is doing more to redistribute wealth than Reaganomics.

Bless those charitable souls.
Intel Thunderbolt: a closer look
We'll have to start issuing H1 visas to import pickpockets.
Spear phishing didn’t snag Canada's financial dat
This article is bullshit. Top result for a search for Google is an Adword for his site, followed by a natural search result for his site, followed predictably by Wikipedia and some affiliate sites dedicated to promoting his site.
What I really like about PHP is that the language is built in such a way that an exception isn't fatal, a page can still render. Just print out the exception or log it, and then continue on and try to render as much as possible. Like a fighter taking a hit but still fighting on, instead of going belly up like finer languages do.
Off topic, a sentence that really stood out for me:

"Now what if Delicious, Feedster, or Technorati goes down for 30 minutes?"

The article was written just six years ago, and these were the examples of popular sites that came to the author's mind. Gives you some idea on how transient this field is.
How does a business come to terms with customers' expectations that everything "web" should be free? Is this why some developers flock to native mobile app production? Maybe 30% costs are reasonable for a payment & distribution service AND the customer psychology that it's OK to purchase useful/entertaining software.?

As your second point suggests, your monetization options will vary based upon the product/service in question. That being said, allow potential customers to try your product (e.g. first 7 RSS transmogrifications are free, then they pay OR first 10 days of service are free, then a one-time charge).
OR:
Consider the time spent on your initial work as part of your FF-Extension-Corp marketing budget. New products will incur a fee.
This will be a lot easier for projects where you predetermine your motivations. To improve your skills & learn something new? Or are you in business to provide a product/service to make a profit? No doubt that if you choose the latter you'll still have to content with competitors who selected the former. Your only hope then is to create more value.
Ask HN: Where to find C++ developers
Im a front-end/backend web developer myself but Im looking for a C++ developer to help us build something native to run on a board. I know a whole bunch of great web devs but I cant for the life of me find any C++ developers. Any suggestions on a good place to start?
They usually get defensive and say something like they'll sue me, or they'll make me sign an NDA first.
CRT monitors supported a range of resolutions, whereas LCDs are fixed in resolution.
I found this a very interesting read (look for responses by "pocketed" for one pickpocketer's viewpoint and strategies):

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bxy7x/per_request_iama...

My biggest takeaway: People do not pay attention. I was taught at a young age to pay attention to my surroundings, and I cannot help but notice how easy it is to walk normally on a sidewalk and surprise people with my presence. People are just plain distracted. In other words, for someone like this, they are easy marks, easy prey.
I've done my part, renting 4 places in Zurich, Milan, Barcelona, and Strasbourg over the last 2 weeks. I have yet to have a bad experience, and as soon as I move into my place, will absolutely be listing it.

In fact, I'll be looking for an apartment with with an extra room, specifically to rent on Airbnb. Not just for the monetary aspect, but I've met some incredible folks over the past few weeks. The model just works.
> And a regression to thicker-than-ever borders :\ I guess you can't have it all.

You can, actually - the border thickness can be adjusted in the "Window color and appearance" dialog. The setting is called "Border padding" or something like that. And before you ask - yes, it works in Aero too (dialog says otherwise).
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Hey, thanks for your feedback! We're continually working to improve the core experience on Airbnb, and we'll be fleshing out some updates to the calendaring system in the near future to address problems like this.

(I'm a backend engineer at Airbnb - feel free to write me at raph@airbnb.com if you have any other feedback to pass along.)
Study: 61% of Boston 8th-graders score below basic achievement in science
Speaking from experience, porn sites send the worst traffic imaginable (just a bunch of horny guys who don't convert). Then again, every site on his network seems to target a fetish of some kind.

I don't think we'll run into any problems advertising SetForMarriage.com (since it serves basically the exact opposite market as Ashley Madison), but it is a little concerning that Google/Bing/Facebook might start to crack down on the dating industry as a whole.

Granted, a lot of sites deserve it due to their ultra-shady business tactics, but we're trying to at least try to build a legit dating site that actually cares about its customers. For example, we try to answer all support emails within an hour, we try our best to block and delete fake profiles (most dating sites don't), we let non-premium users reply to messages (we got inspired by the deleted OK Cupid post about it), and users can cancel their own subscriptions via a big red button.
Ask HN: Do you tend to visit a limited number of websites?
When I first discovered the internet, I used to go on exploration expeditions, as I had no idea what the internet had to offer, nor really what I wanted.

As times have moved on though, I find myself visiting only a limited number of websites, which has almost turned into a habit, and at times actually get bored, but not having the time, have no inclination to go on exploration expeditions.

Is the internet becoming dominated by a handful of companies providing limited services? Has it lost its youthful energy of random exploration or experimentation, curiosity fishing expeditions in other words? Is the internet more and more becoming a limited tool, useful for only a limited functions?

In summary, practically and realistically speaking, for regular users of the internet, has the internet lost its magic?
Thanks for the kind words. And yeah, uhm... the about page isn't quite done yet ;-). Didn't seem like the most important thing haha.

We'd love to see you at the trampoline adventure!
Vegas has very high occupancy rates. Even in the down economy, it's around 80%. http://cber.unlv.edu/tour.html