skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shocking though that it doesn't appear to support any codecs for HTML5 video, rendering it useless on that front: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/gadgets/Motorola/Xoom/ht...

Having recently worked on implementing a video solution that deploys across hundreds of sites, it's shockingly hard to find out how to play video on Android browsers. This is a bigger issue than I think most geeks realize. Most iOS devices I can download an app for all the popular video sites plus see their videos in the browser, whereas with Android I can rarely do either.
Regarding point 2, I wonder how much of a benefit Itanium would see from JIT-compiled languages, because the JIT could then dynamically arrange instructions to maximize ILP.
Since that website is for scheduling tweets, I have to assume that the post is serious, but if I followed anybody who tweets every 30 to 60 minutes I would immediately unfollow him for polluting my timeline.

Now, if the tweets do not show up in my timeline it's different of course. A company can tweet every single minute on Twitter if they reply to people and start conversations since this does not show up in everybody's timeline. See Hipmunk for a company that gets this right, for example.
This attitude drives me all sorts of nuts. Everybody with any familiarity with PGP that has ever thought about integrating it as a tool in a broader system always gets hung up on the notion that they don't want to invest their personal public keys in some library. "Give my public keys to the browser? Crazy!"

These people don't get it. The value of libgpg isn't that it makes it easier to build apps on your personal public keys. It's that it allows you to build applications that use crypto without reinventing an entire crypto stack. The products that used libgpg would be generating their own keys, often ephemerally.

This attitude has resulted in untold hundreds of shipping software products with trivially exploitable crypto flaws that were resolved by PGP's designers in the 1990s. It has been a massive net loss for information security.
I don't think saving the screen space is really the point.

It's more likely about reducing the amount of clutter on the screen. If you don't need something, why put it on the screen? Apple's minimalist design strikes again.
It might be Intel trying to impose their Light Peak format. They already decided to postpone USB3 in their motherboards in favor of Light Peak.

Maybe the sweetheart deal with Apple over being the first ones to implement this tech included a "let's not do USB3 too fast, shall we?" clause.
Yeah really. Associates' enthusiasm (or lack thereof) has a huge influence on how well your interaction with a VC firm goes.

And 'access' isn't the only value from a call like this. I got very lucky and it turns out that Vinny knew a lot about the space I'm in. So he laid out what Menlo thinks are the two big strategic questions. If I have good answers for those, they'll be a lot more interested (and y'know what, so will other VCs). We even had time for me to try out potential answers to the questions, and get some quick calibration whether or not I was on the right path. Hugely hugely valuable.
Light Peak right now is only copper. Optical will be added in the future most likely.
PhysicsFS is pretty excellent if you need more of a traditional hierarchy layout.

http://icculus.org/physfs/
When they start offering a return on investment? Facebook is an odd case as they are quasi public, but typically I'd say to be a "real business" you should be making money not taking VC.
So many of us have dreamed of a chat roulette to match VCs and entrepreneurs...

My initial reaction was very positive, but then I checked the site, and I saw that there were only 3 slots of 10 minutes each. That doesn't sound like much. Can't you at least dedicate an hour to this, once? That would be 6 slots.

I hope if it goes well, you'd start having a repeat system. I'm all for every possible way that people can connect with each other, especially beyond email :-)
I believe the last commercially available IPS laptop was the think pad t43p. The actual plant making 15" IPS panels shut down. (EDIT: wow, thank you! (I forgot about the T60p, but that's also discontinued; the HP EliteBook having a 17" is amazing though...I may have to get one of those!)
"PHP's asset is "you get MySQL and templating for free in pages served by Apache", but most web apps don't use MySQL, templating, or Apache these days."

So, what is database of choice for the web apps ? (I was thinking it is mostly MySQL. Looks like I am struck in old tech.)
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Excellent promotional strategy by Simply Hours -- giving a lot of value to the community while showing the value of lightweight scheduling and getting your name out there.
> Why is that a boneheaded move?

Because people want higher resolutions without using an external display. Or at least a choice.
"So I went back to zlib, and put a slider in the ripper settings to control speed vs. compression. The implementation was to simply skip compressing some of the blocks when ripping. The slider controlled what percentage of blocks were compressed."

How did that resolve your inability to license zlib?
The reason was Apple wanted to sell older processors at a high markup. It was not as if Intel kept their roadmap a mystery or that Apple was not capable of designing a new case and by the time unibody 17" MBP came on the market Penryn had been out for more than a quarter.
It does, in your case it seems Spotify utterly corrupted one of its files (since shutting it down completely and restarting it didn't suffice). There isn't much the OS can do then.
Agree with Edit- but I dislike deletes. I'll let my public embarrassment motivate me to be more careful next time.
Selling a startup is like selling a horse in a parallel universe where the glue factories are paying more than the horse racers.
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More disrespectful than FB leaking out your entire profile and friend list to every single FB game developer and their third-party ad providers? I'm doubtful that "respect" of users plays a role here, or in FB decisions at all.
At least it's better than pressing backspace until she gets to the word and then typing the whole thing again. ;)
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Hi bpeters, I agree with you that as an established twitter user, you might as well have your own routine. This is also our thinking in the post.
We simply tried to point out, what research suggests to bring the best results and we certainly don't judge anyone upon their number of tweets. It's just some advice we wanted to share. :)
You can make any folder visible or invisible to Finder. It's just a file attribute:

# SetFile -a V ~/Library
There's a really good book about this (sadly only in German). However, the author[1] writes about his first business which was basically a mail order company for Darjeeling tea. He imports the tea, a company packs and ships it. Almost all other parts (accounting, customer service, etc.) are also outsourced. In 2005, the company had a sales volume of about $10m.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Faltin
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Looks great, I'll check it out when I get a chance.
>I guess Harpo had the same problem.

Actually it was Groucho who uttered the phrase to which you refer. However a little research shows that it was apparently originally from the "Forsyte Saga" novels about edwardian era upper-middle-class british life. You learn something new every day.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx
What current OS options exist for Itanium processors? I would count HP-UX and Linux and, of course, NetBSD. Microsoft already stated 2008 R2 will be the last OS they make for ia64.

That said, looks like an impressive processor.
The guidelines say that apps should auto-save their documents on Lion, and you can bet Apple'sown productivity suite will. So snapshotting every 2 seconds might not work out too well.
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Here is the tl;dr version: Get a degree in mathematics and you'll be ready for anything. The lower-division courses suck, but the upper-division courses are fun.

Aside from that, not much material.
Looks like a good product, but I found the fonts on the front page very hard to read. I'm on XP/Chrome.

http://imgur.com/vaUq7
Really interested in your feedback of the 1440 vs the 1680 on the 15" screen. I spend lots of time in iTerm/TextMate doing web dev. My current MBP 1440 is ok for me, but thinking I should go higher this time.

Will the fonts be too small? (hey, I'm not that old but concerned I'll be 'leaning in' to a screen where everything is too tiny).
I tend to think of these kinds of apps as "slow spiders," which when thought about in that way makes a bit more sense on the FB-ban side.
Then for the record, the deleted grandpart comment to this one was from me accepting the apology and saying "No harm - no foul." I think that edits and deletions over a short time frame can reduce future confusion and leave a better record, without re-writing history, but I recognise that others have opinions that differ.

Hence this comment, which has made a too long thread even longer.
> why can't companies just call a spade a spade.

Slightly off-topic, but in case there's genuine curiosity there: AIUI, most of the advertising standards rulings about "fair use" policies related to Internet and particularly mobile bandwidth were made quite some time ago, when expectations were very different. It is possible that this was not entirely coincidental, and was motivated by the legal teams at major service providers who saw the current situation coming.
I find this: "that can't play fullscreen video" quite strange. I have no problems with fullscreen videos (~5% cpu), or multiple windowed ones on a 5yo cheapest unknown-local-company laptop. Are you sure your configuration is not broken in some crazy way?

Not saying that you shouldn't update, but this is not what a 5yo laptop of any kind should behave like... If you do the same thing to your new laptop, it might not be worth getting it ;)
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Hi all,

I just launched a private beta of my site, an online Q&A platform for style related advice, called GoodToGoOut (www.goodtogoout.com), and I'm trying to work on doing a redesign of the UI to provide to my developer for the product's next iteration.

Does anyone have any resources for best practices or anything that might be helpful when weighing ideas and actually illustrating them? I already have programs for wireframing, etc, but just want to find more common wisdom and recommended ideas for social site design.

Thanks!
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When I read that. I instantly thought well of course they use it as just glue cause they are using a cruddy language.

There's lots of reasons to use BASH as a glue language (people should do it more) and there are lots of reasons not to use it to write whole software. PHP, same.
Basically, Versions looks like a better and simpler application-level Time Machine integration (TM can already be integrated into applications, though that's now widely known and almost never used. Apart from Finder, I only found out Mail and iPhoto using it)
I also recommend Prof. Strang's book http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-text... and series of lectures http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/highlights-of-calculu... He explains Calculus in a way that make it really easy to understand.
Probably unwise.
That's a good thing, considering you can't downvote articles on HN.
I think Address Book also supports this.
Two things for me today! Thank you.
I was obviously referring to saving manually. If that’s no longer possible they could just replace the the save command in the menu with a “Create Version” command and Command+S could create a version instead of saving.
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Should have left a 5 min gap between each call. That way you know he had time to jot some notes - prep for next call - use the bathroom or something, which would at least ensure his attention was on the call.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 10Gbps chips are interoperable with 10Gbps Ethernet chips at some level.
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Applies to me "llowed to spend the occasional day at home, but we were generally expected to be in the office"
Since starting to learn Erlang, I've been wondering if there's been any effort to build an operating system on top of the Erlang VM to exploit its concurrency... seems like it might be a good fit for this project.
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Ask HN: How would you monetize 360K people?
I have written a couple dozen Firefox add-ons that have a combined userbase of 360,000 active daily users (assuming no overlap, so let's just say it's 300K). Naturally, I'd like to make some money off of these add-ons so I can justify continuing to develop more add-ons, which I greatly enjoy.

How would you monetize this situation? The problems I've come up against are:

1. People have an expectation that add-ons are (and should be) free.

2. It's hard to find a monetization option that makes sense for add-ons in different spaces. e.g., an RSS-related add-on has different logical monetization opportunities than a productivity-related add-on.

3. The only real opportunities out there right now for add-on developers involve selling premium add-ons (see #1) or adding some sort of advertising to the browser or the users' webpages (which feels scummy, and users typically don't like it).

So what would you do if someone gave you access to the browsers and eyeballs of 300,000 people every day?
The encouragment of frugality and pragmatism relating to spending to upgrade business systems is at odds with the author's publicized, flamboyant spending on frivolous ultra-luxuries. Apparently, purchasing $900,000 sports cars and houses in Italy is a higher priority for David than his customers always having access to what they're paying for.

That's his decision obviously, but if I was a 37 Signals customer ever inconvenienced by problems with their infrastructure, I'd think of this article.
Every Core 2 Duo processor onwards has been 64-bit compatible; any Lion-only software can safely drop the 32bit portion of its binary.
Yep. I've been trying to replace mail.app with sparrow for the past 2 weeks.

Sparrow's ui is mostly fine - but a bit frustrating at times. I find occasionally I miss new messages - something that never happened in mail.app.

But, it really does combine the best of both worlds between Gmail and a desktop app.
Wasn't there just a note a week ago about how they weren't going to attack the site, as they had better things to do?
Some of that would depend upon how much the work can be localized per processor, since there are multiple caches with multiple CPUs. But, yes, I very much wonder as well.

"you can't write memcached in Java" http://roboprogs.com/devel/2010.12.html

Or can you??? (efficiently, given the right JVM?)
I registered never got a call from the associate received a email about confirmation about the meeting
There is also this series of videos http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variab...
It's up to apps to implement it. But why, do you honestly think it will get in the way anywhere besides IDEs (and maybe not even there...)? This is an honest question because I can't really think of instances where I wouldn't want something like this.

I'm spoiled by Notational Velocity, which saves automatically, and by iPad apps for same. I have Coda and TextMate set to save when they lose focus so I don't lose work...
Sometimes I get some pretty bad headaches from staring so intently at the screen. I've found that taking breaks every few hours or so, going outside, taking a breath of fresh air, and then staring at something in the distance helps. Not only do I feel rejuvenated from being outside, but it also helps to relieve the eye strain.
I am aware of force quitting as per your proposed solution, but it doesn't always work, hence the need to remove the app and reinstall it.
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Next time you update your add-on, perhaps make it redirect once to your homepage, where you invite the user to make a donation for continued support?

You might not get many donations, but I know that adding ads to a Firefox plugin would make me uninstall it right away and find an alternative.
I'm no PHP fan, but you're a little wrong here. Please see [1], or provide a better source so we can all be enlighten.

[1]: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/
Why marketing is still batch processing whereas sales is real-time
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Ask HN: How do you check cross-browser compatibility of CSS/HTML?
We do it the hard way, by hand, on about 15-18 browser/version/OS combinations.

I'm aware of a variety of stand-alone tools/web based services to facilitate this but with the exception of an occasional use of one or two, we haven't used these much.

My question here is how do you do this? What's your weapon of choice?

Please share what you can.
Intel's HD 3000 seems to only support OpenGL 3. NVidia's 320M and 330M are likewise limited to OpenGL 3.3 (according to wikipedia, NVidia's own spec pages only talks about 2.1[0]). I'm not sure it makes as much sense to support that.

[0] http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html
Absolutely not true version control, but if it covers everything on the HD and does so automatically, that's pretty awesome. There was an app called TimeDrawer that I was using for a while that did exactly that, and it saved me more times than I can count - "Automatic" and "Everywhere" are pretty powerful where versioning is concerned.
I sincerely hope there's a debug option that causes it to play AC/DC in some fashion.
The T60p also had one, and the Thinkpad tablets at least through X200t had an IPS (Flexview) option. It doesn't appear to be an option on the more recent tablets.
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Although you can always open /Applications, you can also litter your HD with apps. But now with the App Store you don't even have to know where the app is at all when it just appears in your dock or now in Launchpad.

I hope it at least supports drag and drop like cmd-tab. I'd use it. Typing app names is great and all, but I don't manage my photos with the command line.
They advertised 10 hours for my (now) last-gen MacBook pro. I can easily do 12 hours. And have. Screen brightness at minimum, using terminal.app. I prefer vim to any graphical editor (haven't tried emacs), and nethack is one of my favorite games ever.
That's what I spend my long plane rides doing.
Regarding point 2: Last time I checked (IIRC 2006-ish), there seemed to be common resentiment among scientists working in the area of programming language implementation that there is just too little ILP for successful wide-spread VLIW adoption (modulo some special use cases.)

AFAI(K|R), Hennesy and Patterson's cannonical text (CA-AQA [1]) reflects this: going from 3rd to 4th edition, we find a new chapter "Limits on ILP", VLIW/EPIC elements have been moved from the main contents to the CD-ROM, too (which probably is not a good indicator, though: the 3rd edition was just too heavy to carry it around a lot ;)

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...
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unfortunate that almost all the rumours were false
- hybrid ssd
- better battery
- higher resolution
- bigger trackpad
- thinner body
Thanks for the feedback, and I appreciate you sharing the pic! Yeah, that doesn't look very good. I'll test it on XP and see if I can improve. Personally I really like the text-shadow/bevel effect, but I've always worried it reduces readability.
> invite the user to make a donation

I forgot to mention this in the main text: Mozilla's add-ons site has support for soliciting donations from users during the install/upgrade process, and I've opted in on several of my most popular add-ons, but it still only brings in about $50/month.

> adding ads to a Firefox plugin would make me uninstall
> it right away and find an alternative.

Agreed, I would do the same.
So it looks like they are removing the need for the Quit command and the Save command, and are adding automatic document versioning.

In other words, Apple has finally brought the key features of Lisa OS to the Mac. It took a little longer than expected.
In other words, the vector module: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-vector
> ability to abstract the database in an OO way (do they even have prepared statements yet?), and so on.

PHP keeps on changing; this has been in the PHP core for years.

> most web apps don't use MySQL, templating, or Apache these days.

I disagree, most apps still use MySQL, templating, and Apache. But there is a whole class of applications, things like real-time chat, that PHP cannot handle well because it's tied to Apache.
Exactly, 'careful' implies that you are a powerless sheep - which is actually true for an alarming percentage of the population.

I think Paul Buchheit's recent article 'Two paths to success' does a very good job of illustrating the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Seems like one's personal ratio of extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation can be used as a sort of co-efficient that limits or enhances how you are influenced by your network. Further, if you pick some of the most intrinsically motivated entrepreneurs and innovators, you will find many people who will actually be affected negatively by what their network is doing.

In my opinion, for the sake of innovation, the world needs far more entrepreneurs and technologists who are highly intrinsically motivated, and far far less people who are so impressionable that the need to be 'careful' about who they work with. Just like you say, there is something to be learned from everyone.
Never date anyone crazier than you are.
Your 'correction' does not apply. Apps that have crashed are no longer running, and hence force quit will do nothing.
I've never understood the demand for builtin 3G for laptops. I don't want to pay for a 3G data plan for my laptop + 3G data plan for my iPad + 3G data plan for my phone. I want a data plan for my phone, and I want all of my devices to be able to access it via tethering.
I've been working at home for two and a half months, and switched jobs to do it. Or more accurately, I work from home as a consequence of switching to a job that was more in-line with my interests.

This comic pretty well sums it up how it's gone:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
Yes.. 50% chance of getting it right every time, even though it feels like less than that! It doesn't help that some motherboards put the USB ports upside-down for some inexplicable reason, and when it's dark you can't see the little USB logo on the cable anyway.
Funny, my experience is the opposite--FireWire drivers are generally very DMA oriented and require little to no CPU at all, while USB drivers tend to need more CPU for the protocol overhead. This is because FireWire is an address oriented bus and the hardware can map FireWire addresses to CPU addresses and DMA in and out with (literally) zero CPU overhead. A driver write would really have to go out of their way to make a FireWire protocol become CPU bound. I suppose the audio protocol is isochronous based which would be slightly different, but that is still DMA based in every FW implementation I know of.

8 channels of 24 bit/192KHz audio is only 2MB/s which is basically nothing. I'm very surprised that you would see any issues.

I have about 3 or 4 devices in my FW chain (including disks and scanners) and my sub $1000 FW audio interface works just fine.
His linear algebra intro lectures are the best I've seen anywhere too... plus his book is probably the best intro on the topic to date.
My relatively inexperienced viewpoint puts Clojure somewhat closer to Scheme than Common Lisp.