skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think you could have worked effectively out of a 3BR apartment type place as live/work? Or does having a genuinely separate home vs. work make a big difference?

I'm seriously considering doing a 5-7BR house in the Peninsula for one or more security/enterprise/government startups -- with people either living there part-time or not at all. I just like the "villa" style environment, with nice kitchen, residential bathrooms, etc., for <20 people. For this space, avoiding becoming "corporate" and boring for an extra year or two is probably worth it -- for a consumer or even consumer-business company, maybe that is less of a concern.
What do you find are other Enterprise approaches to annihilate developers motivation?
Also: "Index Funds Considered Harmful (Possibly Evil) BY SOME GUY"

Insincere labeling is not a good marketing tactic.
http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus is a great tool for this.
Because most people don't want to pay for two 3G data plans, and the types of people who would want 3G connectivity on their laptops probably have 3G smartphones with tethering already.
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Is it really time that is making displays better, or money? The iPad has a display using better tech than most desktop LCDs, new or old.
That's true for virtually any topic. Your taking offense at my labeling of politics as politics is unreasonable.
I disbelieve. My brother learned to pick-pocket for giggles and grins. And I've seem him demonstrate the skill. Tight jeans is not a challenge as long as the target's attention is elsewhere.
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I've also spent some time on http://hacker.org

Rather than focus on a specific "answer," you instead write algorithms to solve various flash games based on NP-complete/hard problems.
Its interesting since there's always ways to improve. You can start out with a brute-force solver, but as the levels scale your program won't.

They also recently added a "challenges" section, which is more about specific coding tasks. Those are also pretty fun & scale well.

And yes, despite the domain name & poor design, it's actually a pretty serious site. The same guy also did http://goproblems.com/ , which is cool if you're into Go (the board game, not the lang).
that's a good point and an interesting way to look at it - anti-up on your retargeting spend to help block out competitors. i wonder if the re-targeting networks have a way for advertisers to mark competitors and then bid against them?
Am I missing something, or is this as idiotic as it sounds? Seems like a great way to guarantee that hardly any device manufacturers will bother with it.
Apple processes the Credit Card and provides the distribution.

So not quite a fair comparison.
When I updated the system to Snow Leopard.
I appreciate you taking the time to explain your downvote - thanks.

>this isn't just "political crap" as it has many, many implications of the state of the world.

I don't know why you think X being classified as political crap precludes X having implications for the state of the world. That's exactly what political crap does, as well as lots of other types of crap that also have nothing to do with YC or hacking or entrepreneurship or Silicon Valley or technology or CS.

>The term hacker is not limited to tech and business... figuring out how they work, and making them better.

Arguments about words are highly uninteresting: http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/. HN is obviously geared towards tech and startups.
so, according to you, the data level parallelism at the instruction level i described isn't a case of instruction level parallelism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction-level_parallelism

and returning to the original specific context of Itanium vs. GPU :

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter35...

Take your stub at what can be classified as what :)
I have to agree with this. Leading a group of less experienced programmers can be a great experience. I guess it depends on what you're looking for.
Too bad really, at first I wondered if it was versioning built into the filesystem, like VMS used to do, but more transparent. We'll just have to wait for apps to take advantage of the functionality.
I do my software Dev on Mac OS X. I am a backend systems software engineer working on daemons that run in the background on top of FreeBSD. Mac OS X helps since it is so similar to FreeBSD it makes it easy for me to test on my own laptop, and I have access to all of the tools I need to do my job in Terminal, such as mercurial, python, easy to install open source software using MacPorts and whatnot. On Windows I would have to dick around with msys, and cygwin, also I would be vastly less efficient because of having to deal with various inconsistencies and possible issues because the code I just wrote might not compile correctly on a POSIX system.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html
Sadly, Thunderbolt only supports 1.1a
This is shameful behavior by PayPal. There is no doubt about it. If everyone with a PayPal account who cares about the unlawful, unjust treatment of Bradley Manning would simply delete their PayPal account and clearly state the reasons why they are doing so in writing, PayPal might act a bit less cowardly. Doubtful, but at some point you have to take a stand.
Ask HN: Stackable Multi-Core Mobile Platform?
Question to HN'ers

Is it worth while to design and prototype a Stackable Multi-core Mobile platform?

I like my iphone, my galaxy tab and my ipad. But they are really focused devices.

What if my mobile had a primary interface touchscreen unit for the basic functions of calling, browsing, and basic snapshots. -then, if I wanted more power, storage and functionality; I can just stack behind it another processor & memory that has its own power and basic storage (and basic OS instructions think strpped down android). Theoretically, you can just stack accessories like a better camera - or more processing, or more storage.

Instead of building faster chips, just use existing chips and stack them together.

Theres some prototypes out there of android doing simultaneous-tasking.

dumb idea? love to hear what you guys have to say!
and i don't even have a wife yet
> They're typically Google: great on a technical level, with a somewhat sketchy UI.

They come mostly from the Webkit project itself actually. I'm sure Chrome contributes, but the main driver is Webkit (thus probably Apple)
Aside from OSX -- I wonder how many people on HN actually have much dealings with a real UNIX (a Solaris or AIX etc).

I would hazard a guess that *nix means Linux to a large % of the population.
The mixed tab is not "resources" anymore, it's "network" and it's filtrable by type. XHRs don't appear in the new "Resources" tab.
Does anyone have any insight into how well freebsd runs on laptops? Power management, suspend, wireless and such? As an X desktop is it in the same league as fedora/opensuse when running KDE?
Unless the United Nations finds it inconvenient:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
Article 29(3)

These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
No.

Students need to be graded. You're paying for assessment as well as education.
Depends what kind of developer you are. If you're a developer that requires a posix environment, you're definitely better off in the mac world. Thinkpad with Linux is sometimes an option if you're confident that everything is supported, but very often you'll be wasting time dicking around in the xorg.conf file to get the external display to work properly with certain monitors/configurations.

I'm also a bit surprised that you hate the trackpad -- that's the one thing I love about the mac. It supports many kinds of gestures that just wouldn't be possible on a single stickpoint. For example, I use the 3-finger swipe for navigation in chrome every day, and a 4 finger swipe for jumping to specific apps.
That they kept the optical drives wasn't a surprise. For most of us (power-users) — who download software and/or use disk images — it's not a necessity, but a lot of regular Joe's still burn CD's/DVD's.

I've had a lot of people look at a MacBook Air and then ask me "where's the DVD drive?".
POSIX is irrelevant, Linux is POSIX compliant, no-ones bothered to pay the money for the piece of paper the important thing is the tools.

The main thing lacking from OSX is a package manager, in Linux its build in. On OSX you have to use 3rd party ones. Just look at mark pilgrims 'how to install mysql on ubuntu' for an example of how It Just Works on Linux and on OSX you have to tweak lots of config files.
FBI: Internet crime high; types of misdeeds changing
Ha! Hell no! Never as long as I'm here!
Question: Will I get billed for a FreeBSD micro instance or does that fall under the 1 year free hosting?
Probably not, but I really wish they would. It would make experimenting with programming kexts a lot less painful.
Hmm! I wonder what that's about. Thanks for the information.
When Jobs unveiled Lion he said their goal was to bring some of the best aspects of iOS back to OSX. Which feature(s) do you think make the Mac less of a general purpose computer? I don't see much of a trade off here.
Maybe. I wouldn't make any conclusions using it though.
Theres an easy way around that, just compile the software and use a different name, like what debian do with Firefox, its called IceWeasel in debian.
I'll be working pretty close to the Financial district. I wouldn't expect my pregnant wife to work anytime soon though. It could be tough I know. But I hope I could get more network with great entrepreneur minds in NYC. Cheers
It seems like the drug trade and pickpocketing are in competition for young labor, maybe that's part of it?
I think the TDP increase is mostly due to the integrated graphics being moved on to the CPU. Overall platform power usage should be lower than the previous generation.
Apple always say what the stats are of the machines in the footnotes: http://grab.by/98Pq
I am quoted in this article and I totally agree with you.

It has to do with the nature of the acquisition. As you say, WhereOnEarth was killer technology, easy to integrate into everything that Yahoo did.

The "Class of 2005" startups that Yahoo acquired were not about technology, they were about having a different relationship with the users and creating common resources (photo library, tagged URLs, event information...).

That's a much more problematic kind of innovation for a company like Yahoo. It was alien to how Yahoo worked, and for many groups it was even a kind of threat.
Angels Hate On Yuri Milner and Ron Conway’s $150K to Y Combinator Start-Ups
I can't imagine that the efficiency is all that good. (I kind of hope this doesn't take off--it isn't like it is easy to meet our electrical needs today, so I don't see any need to add more inefficiencies) Plus, inductive charging implies changing electric fields, which implies magnetic fields, which might do nasty things if there is a hard drive nearby
Actually, the US Constitution is much broader in terms of protecting individuals then I think you realize. The Constitution is specific when it intends to reserve rights only for citizens, otherwise it uses the word Persons.

See perhaps most recently _Boumediene v. Bush_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush

Namely that these enemy combatants do have rights under the Constitution in this case the right to a habeas petition.

The other relevant historic case-law here is _Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins
"these provisions [the Constitution] are universal in their application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction."
Warn HN: Dropbox sabotaged for OSX Lion
Dropbox will not work in osx Lion. It looks like they are doing OS version checking and have disallowed 10.7 Here is a screenshot: http://grab.by/98Ph

There is a forum post about this over on dropbox, if you are currently or will be soon running Lion please jump over there and let them know its important!

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33706
To further play devil's advocate, there's another article here: http://www.1up.com/news/kojima-younger-generation-japan-losi... - which seems to point toward disappointment in the education system.

"The engineering population in Japan may be in jeopardy. We should first review our education system here in Japan."
Thanks for you thorough answer. Like you said I definitely wouldn't rent a shady place for a cheaper price. Most of my co-workers are from New Jerseys so I could look around in NJ too. In "Fresh Direct and your local wash-and-fold" do you mean out source the laundry? Thanks again
New Macbook Unboxing and Internals Pictures
After reading the section on Facebook blocking him, I though "Well duh, he's a direct competitor of Facebook!!"

In all seriousness I don't know how many affairs originate through each site, but with Facebook's volume, even a low percentage could eclipse Ashley Madison. To be honest, I can't imagine MySpace, or any other social network being allowed to advertise on Facebook either.
It's really just webhooks, no? I know Github offers this for post commit hooks.

I love the idea of webhooks and think they're really underutilized. But it's been around.
No word on an HFS+ replacement.

Also, what's AV Foundation? Is this what QuicktimeX was supposed to become? Will we finally get codec plugins without having to program for the crusty old Component Manager?
Also, "Why do we need to update to Office 2010 or 380 or whatever that next crazy version number is, when this plugin makes sharing and co-authoring work in the Office version we already have?"
To save anyone watching the video it is pretty much call in radio type fare. The Westboro representative doesn't really respond or acknowledge the hack on air.
Public datasets on AWS
So make one... this is HN after all.

EDIT - Make one and I'll signup. There is your first client.
Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook
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The increase in TDP mostly has to do with the increased GPU power - I think (speculating) that if you were running the 2010 CPU + the nvidia gpu hot for equivalent performance you'd be seeing at least as high a total power draw.
Her number? giggity.
DeployFu – Heroku for .NET
The user interface revolution underway
Nice! I love instagr.am, now I have to think on what can I use this API! OSOM!
Wonder how airbnb is internationally. Leaving for a year long round the world trip w/ my wife in april and so far have found some great deals in sydney and seoul. My plan is to use airbnb exclusively. Better deals than hostels in many places. Our travel blog is www.shenventure.com if anyone is interested.
That's already been possible for a few years - http://daggle.com/macbook-pro-multimonitor-4-monitors-at-onc...
Interviewing with Google - Part 1
I think loosecubes does what you're looking for.
http://loosecubes.com/home
Google Public Policy Blog: The freedom to be who you want to be…
How Microsoft mobile tags are killing QR codes
It's a thin battery pack that attaches to the bottom of the laptop and works in conjunction with the system battery.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-74450.html
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A Parent's Struggle With a Child's iPad Addiction
Anyone know of a resource like this where you can take problem sets and/or tests? For the way I learn, it just doesn't stick unless I can do problems and correct my mistakes.
Not to marginalize these guy's success in any way, but being part of the winter 09 ycombinator class probably helped in a big way (right around time of their major bump)
Amping Up Chrome’s Background Feature
This squabble seems more like pro wrestling than HN; flagged. (Maybe both Anonymous and Westboro are really Andy Kaufmann?)
Tell HN: Big Google Update (maybe going after content farms)
It's still early but it looks like there's a big update happening to Google results. First signs of it were early this morning and it's now rolling out to the various servers around afternoon evening East Coast time. Right now it looks like it's localized to google.com so it remains to be seen what the long term effect of these changes are going to be when things settle out and if the changes will roll out to the international servers as well.

In terms of profile, it looks like "big" sites with many pages that get long tail search traffic are seeing a drop in SERPs/traffic. No clear profile is coming up on what they're being replaced with.
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I was scared away from purchasing a MacBook Pro with a Mini-Display Port just because of all the reviews on Apple.com saying how that converter was horrible. I'm happy I did, because it caused me to wait for a MacBook Air 13", and not only did I get a computer that is better for me (I really don't need all the features and power of the latest and greatest MBP) - They also seemed to have fixed the problems with the converter. I spend 10-12 hours a day with my MBAir 13" 1440x900and my Dell 2560x1600.

The Converter works fine, I _love_ the mini-display port form factor, Happy to hear they are adapting it for thunderbolt, (Interesting to see the similarity in Bus Naming "FIRE WIRE" "THUNDER BOLT") - Only downside is that it requires a USB port to power it, but, on the pro side, the MBAir comes with two!
You know that corporations are comprised of human beings, right? By forcing a corporation to do something, you are forcing human beings to do something.
My only complaint with my MBP keyboard is the lack of a ctrl key on the right side. It's my only real complaint about the laptop in general. Everything else is just a quirk.
Am I the only one who absolutely loves the eraserhead on the Thinkpad? It's so nice to be able to use the mouse without taking your hands off the keyboard. (Why netbooks have a tiny, useless touchpad rather than an eraserhead is beyond me.)

My 2009 macbook has been a disaster for me ergonomically. The keys are spaced too far apart and I keep trying to "click" the trackpad, which is killing my fingers. And the limited trackpad space when trying to drag or highlight something long drives me crazy.
I love how pg always has this kinda 'child like joy' smirk on his face for these press pictures.

Like he is thinking "this is SOO cool...Mom is gonna be soo proud."
I had a similar thought a few days ago but not for job hiring purposes but more for job understanding purposes.

If you are interviewing with a company it would be great to see the rescue time profiles of the people working there as well as the rescue time of people in different roles.
Based on his email and checking out the site, I would guess it's this: http://www.styleowner.com
Tried it briefly, but Dropbox won't even install on it. In addition, Evernote doesn't work (it seems to be relying on a private API that doesn't exist anymore) and NewsRack sync with Google Reader is completely hosed due to a memory leak that I'm assuming is a problem on 10.7 (but not 10.6 for some reason). Needless to say, I'm going back to Snow Leopard for now, since Dropbox is a vital tool for me.
I have not once ever felt the need to scan a QR code to "learn more" - and it's not because of incompatible code types.
I'm lovin this! I can't wait for it to blow up!
Fire clients that are worse than you? Why not just do an amazing job for them?
Readability toolbar shortcut to the rescue!

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I can totally vouch for this. My 5,3 MBP only got about 4 hours max when brand new as long as I was running OS X and had the power-saving video mode selected. Running Debian, I usually see around 2 hours if I'm lucky.
I have a sysadmin background. I code for fun but it's not my strongest point.
I'm curious why they didn't put in a Blu-Ray reader/writer, if they're going to put in an optical drive at all?
I can work on making it more user friendly but I thought the main title was quite inviting. Anyone else feels like instructions are required?
I wish I could be more supportive, but frankly, the first thought I had was "how I am going to block this?"
I too have been waiting for a site like this. Great work. I can see this having great virality through the brag factor on social networks (Facebook).
And if PayPal blocked a cat picture enterprise or Google de-linked them or Yahoo purchased them, that information would be relevant to HN.
From the outside looking in the vast majority of people I know making web apps in ruby are doing so with rails. For better or for worse there is that full blow framework culture there that hasn't been replicated in PHP either due to fragmentation or the amount of functions built directly in the language.
Ask HN: Non-Cliche Quotes That Really Hit Home
"When I see a new web startup trying to increase click-thru ad-rates by 10%, it breaks my heart a little. It's not that what they're doing is wrong. But I just can't help but feel like I'm seeing incredible entrepreneurial talent wasted on something that fundamentally doesn't matter much." (by Nathaniel Whittemore)

Felt this was a perfect quote for me to hear as we work on our lead generation startup. Sometimes we just get waaay too caught up in the metrics rather than focusing more on creating more impact.

I'd love to hear of any non generic quotes that made a difference for you
Maybe they're not confident that the number of people choosing this option would compensate for the extra training and infrastructure necessary to support it, plus the tie-ins with a carrier. It's one thing to do that for the iPhone where every customer wants it, another for 5% of Macbook buyers.
It's not a missing feature. Microsoft office has almost-full-featured in-browser document editing (http://www.officelive.com/en-us/). It actually has a really slick UI (like the desktop office), and more importantly to me, works perfectly on Linux.

Edit: as another commenter mentioned, it also has co-authoring; not as slick at google docs at chatting, but it worked well for me.
The Best Startups Everyday, for early adopters, investors, etc.
That exact method was used on a friend of mine in Spain not too long ago. She was walking down the street, found herself covered in something that seemed like vomit, and then being assisted by Spanish "gentlemen". A minute later, she had no purse, no passport, no money, and no phone. Ouch.

Distressingly clever distraction, I would say.