skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it's not so bad once you take advertising sub-clause of the spec into account. That's the hidden clause that states the USB logo will be on the top of a properly-oriented plug unless you're Microsoft or Logitech, in which case your corporate name is allowed top-billing, so to speak.

Of course, if the slots are oriented vertically...
Is Galaxy S one smartphone in the UK, or a family of phones like here in the US? If it's a family, it should be broken out as their constituent phones. In which case the iPhone will likely be #5.
I dug out my old calc textbook last weekend because I need derivatives for my latest hack. Every time I get stuck Khan Academy saves the day.

just sayin'.
All About the New Macbook Pros 2011
I don't want to be "verified" badly enough to give some brand-new startup the last 4 of my SSN.
Yeah because Linux has worked out so badly...
The iPad experience is equally or more powerful in the consumer's eye.

On the technical front, Apple accomplished performance with code elegance as opposed to throwing hardware at the problem, as the Android team often does.

This is due to generally better code & more elegant, tightly-tied-to-hardware frameworks. Android will get there, but Honeycomb ain't.
While that would be nice for the techie crowd, it would read to the typical user like "we were lying before, sorry about that". Not very feasible.
Is there a demo/preview page? It's rather hard to give you feedback without getting a feel for the product. A superficial prototype should suffice if you do not have anything functional to show. If you have a working link, or anything else that you can share with HN, please post it here and I'll try to give you some comments. Right now I am drawing blank.
Go. Maybe LuaJIT with some additions to the parser to allow optional Static typing. Smalltalk with an advanced JIT VM and parse/compile time type enforcement ala Strongtalk. Scheme.
Bing expands Facebook "Liked Results"
It was mentioned before that westb church would just log all of the IPs coming in as a chance to sue anon.

Do you think they launched this with a 200.00 throw away acer bought with cash from target using a free hot spot at a local coffee shop?
A Flipboard like web site for news
> Are you seriously suggesting that switching apps makes you more productive?

Yes, that's what practically everyone here is saying. Are you seriously suggesting that the ability to switch between two concurrently running applications will somehow make you less productive?
Ask HN: Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
In an HTML <table>, the TFOOT element must be placed between THEAD And TBODY. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/tfoot.html. What could be the reason behind this?
Unless I'm misremembering, unless you ask for detailed information about the updates, it doesn't tell you ahead of time if it's going to ask to restart your computer. It just says basically, "There are updates available. Do you want them?"
I was a bit deceived to see that the display quality is lacking in comparison to the iPad, which is already 1 year old.

I am going to hold my breath and look for reviews of the 10 inch Galaxy tab, hoping they will bring in a better display.
I doubt many businesses that have built and scaled their infrastructure on Microsoft systems would overhaul their entire operations just because Microsoft itself disappeared. Consider the amount of legacy systems still in use in large enterprises today; many of these were originally designed by companies that are long gone.

If anything, the collapse of Microsoft would produce many smaller companies competing to satisfy the ubiquitous demand for Windows support.
Looks good--and works! One quick piece of advice for users--if you use a separate email client and delete emails from your Gmail inbox after they're downloaded, using the default "Inbox" scraping option will only get you the emails you haven't yet downloaded. Instead, use "Sent Mail" or "All Mail". However, by and large, you'll still only get emails that you sent, not emails sent to you.
I'd like to read about this. Is there an available document explaining why? Or do you know the reason?

(Not that I hate copper or anything, it is just that they designed it for fiber from the beginning and then suddenly bailed out)
Chrome's notification boxes have three major complaints from me:

A. They don't automatically close. (I think you can change this for each web app individually, but I would like a browser-wise setting). This wouldn't be a big issue, if not for...

B. The close button is freaking tiny. I can dismiss Growl notifications by clicking anywhere on them, which is much nicer on a laptop than trying to move to a small button.

C. The notifcation windows resemble what Apple calls panels. [1] The problem is, "Panels float above other windows and provide tools or controls that users can work with while documents are open." [2] The user isn't meant to be closing panels often, which is why the title bar can be small. Chrome's notifications feel out of place in that regard.

1. http://maxcdn.googletutor.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/...

2. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...
"Ion twinning" another step towards quantum computers
There may be concurrent instances of "super agile" and "Microsoft", but I have never witnessed one.

The two companies I cited use InfoBASIC, each on a different variant of the old Pick operating system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
> To go from 98% to 99% can cost thousands of dollars. To go from 99% to 99.9% tens of thousands more.

Somewhere in there is the pickle problem:

You have 1000kg of pickles in your basement. Now, pickles are mostly water. In fact, your pickles are 99% water, the rest is cellulose. Cellulose has negligible mass, so we can say that all the mass comes from the water. You leave your pickles in the basement for a year, and when you come back, they've dried out a certain amount, so they're now 98% water. What's their new mass?
{ write it in javascript }

In all seriousness, when you have to support hardware controllers whose only interface to the CPU is a memory block or I/O instructions, what other choice do you have besides C? I guess you have C++...
I bought a mac for the first time about 3 months ago (a 13" macbook air). This is after being an IBM guy for years. I gotta say I'm very satisfied with my purchase. The hardware build quality is great and the support is top notch. I had an issue with my logic board, brought it in to an apple store, paid nothing and walked out with a fixed computer two days later. The lack of a 2-4 week turnaround time is wonderful for repairs, and the unix OS is really nice. I dont think I'll switch over to a mac desktop, but for laptops I'm sold.
Designer Sarees
Isn't it strange that TFOOT must be placed between THEAD and TBODY?
In an HTML <table>, the TFOOT element must be placed between THEAD And TBODY. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/tfoot.html. What could be the reason behind this?
Drat. I wanted Lion on my old cira 2006 MBP with Core Duo. :(
Three points:

1) There's no proprietary Motorola UI layer on top of Honeycomb in this instance, in contrast to their Android 2.X phones. So one might expect updates to be more prompt if updating said UI layer is a big bottleneck for their other products.

2) It's my understanding that Google folks working on Honeycomb have been using the Xoom as their reference device, so they might be inclined to make sure that it can keep up with their OS updates.

3) The Xoom bootloader isn't locked down, which is a good start.
Though note that the server software is a custom install option; i.e., it's not there by default.

Also note that Lion will be sold from the App Store, so physical discs (DVDs) are probably out. (They'll likely include one of those little flash drives with the new hardware with the install disk image on it.)
This is the top ten list of what? Popularity? What do they mean by that? Where are the numbers? Where did uswitch.com get the data from? Manufacturers? Distributors? Network operators? A web poll? Some other methodology?
We'll send you an invite code early if you'd like (after the weekend). We just want to clean it up a bit more before letting anyone in.
At the risk of looking like a complete idiot, I think your solution to problem #2 is incorrect.

Update: I was wrong. It's kind of scary how sure I was of my incorrect solution.
The Mac had cooperative multitasking until I believe Mac OSX. They were nearly the last OS to get preemptive multitasking by a factor of like 5-6 years.

The Mac was technologically out front when it came out and then for 15 years just seemed to stand still. Architectural elements like multitasking and memory management just became dated while systems like Windows made the Mac OS look archaic. Until OS X.

I think the other commenter is alluding to iOS maybe following the same trend, but this time to Android.
It's amazing how much the economics of up time have changed since this article was written because of services like AWS.

While it may not be technically or fiscally trivial yet, it's far easier and cheaper than its ever been, and far more so that in 2005.
So that if the tbody is set up with its own scroll bar, the initial parts of the tbody can appear between the thead and the tfoot before the tbody has finished downloading.
It is only in the US and (IIRC) a couple of far eastern markets where the galaxy S is mucked about with by the networks. In the UK and elsewhere in europe we just get the stock galaxy S as samsung intended it.
With vertical plugs I always just plug it in whichever way I'm holding the plug first, then flip it as necessary. It's not like there's any standardization between motherboard manufacturers on this, so why bother trying to remember which way it goes?
On the multi-tasking versions of iOS, double tapping the home button brings up a strip down the bottom of the screen. You can scroll left and right, and it will show you apps that you have recently run and/or that are still running. There's no real indicator to show the difference.

If you scroll all the way to the left, you get a bunch of music options, and the screen orientation lock, which is quite useful since they decided to remove that function from the hardware switch.

Now, while that bar is showing, you can press and hold one of those recently run apps, and it will jiggle and you can force quit it by pressing the x in the corner, very much like removing the app. As far as I know the force quit through this method is the same as the one with the power button and home key thing (maybe a bit faster).

Where your technique comes in handy is that the list of recently run apps does not include the currently frontmost or 'runningest' app or whatever it is. So you can't quit an app while you're in that app using the ribbon technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S#Variants

Only in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, China, and Japan.
There's a big difference between an OS and a VM, and they accomplish different things.

Go might be feasible, but forcing system-wide GC at random times for the entire system? GC is very hard to make concurrent and a single random-alloc GC'd memory space can't possibly scale to thousands of cores.
Some people actually do use a large percentage of their hard drives.
I don't think you have provided enough information to really help. What do your addons do? What are the user's interests?

You could try affiliate sales to some users depending on the function. For instance, if you created an add on the is used be web designers you may try to market stock photos.
Sorry, I probably confused you. I'm strictly referring to the actual HTML/JS output of a Ruby or PHP web application. Sure, production output matters, but my point is actual output doesn't necessitate using a particular language in this case. I believe that's is what the original author was referring to in his original post, especially considering the context.

As for your hypothetical situation, I imagine for those reasons and more, they continue to use PHP. PHP isn't devoid of these tools (and I'm not suggesting you are suggesting that), and they are widely used and fairly popular. And because they are proficient in PHP, they can use these tools easily.

As has been mentioned by the original author (in both the original post and in comments), they don't use PHP as a hammer, and they do explore other languages. Learning is good. Take what you learn, and apply in a language you are extremely proficient at.
The author of the article says he's using PHP for glue, not for writing CGI apps. There are certainly a lot of legacy apps are of the old-style "click a link, send HTML as a response". But the new "glue style" is about writing your web app as a JSON server that speaks HTTP, and then writing the UI in Javascript to run in the browser. That's what I'm saying nobody uses Apache for.

The way people write new apps now is with high-performance server processes that can handle tens of thousands of clients per thread. Apache and PHP do not do that. 99.999% of the Internet is legacy apps, and so Netcraft statistics will tell you how people were writing apps 5-10 years ago.
I would buy it! You could charge per-usage too, since most people don't have an unlimited stream of people coming to their apartment every month.

I'm not sure how the phone # allocation works but I imagine the biggest challenge is getting local #'s for people who don't have google voice or whatnot.
Good catch, I swore I saw that they offered 1080p on the 15" but Apples site says otherwise. That said, I have the 17" with 1680x1050, and it's plenty of pixels on a laptop.
I couldn't agree more.

I choose PHP, all that time ago, because back then I was a C developer. I fell in love with the fact you could create your own C extensions and that the PHP syntax was similar to C syntax, so it was easy to pick up and make it do what I wanted it to do.

I've only every toyed with frameworks, never used one as such, because I built my own library up over the years that is suited to my needs.
Scrolling in MacOSX Lion same as iOS: Backwards. How this will affect Mac Apps?
Hopefully the same as when you plug a Mac into another Mac via FireWire. (One of the Macs becomes the most expensive external HDD ever. This requires one Mac to reboot into the target disk mode. It would be nice if the same trick would be possible with Thunderbolt without rebooting.)
Can I have an Exit please?
pretty cool ! Would like more sources though
Personally, I don't think they're too small. I moved to this machine from a ThinkPad x61 tablet (12.1", 1400x1050 -- just shy of 150 ppi, as opposed to 128-and-change on the MBP), so it's actually a step down in pixel pitch for me. FWIW, I tend to live in the terminal, too.

(That said, part of the reason for the upgrade was that I was starting to notice some "leaning in", myself...)

No direct experience with the 1440x900 screen, so I can't offer any sort of meaningful comparison, but you'd have to make a very compelling case (say, sub three pounds) for me to consider a screen with anything under a vertical kilopixel. (And even then, I'm holding onto a sliver of hope that the Air refresh will bring a higher-res display along with whatever other goodies...)

EDIT: sloppy proofreading.
Sure, but look at the future a bit. I highly doubt iOS will ever run Java and I highly doubt Android will ever run C#. But hardware will get faster, and as that happens the demos performance will improve.

It may be a bit early to write 3D games or video editing software in JavaScript for iOS and Android and Windows all at the same time, so you've got to look to the future for that kind of excitement.
This guy is from the past.

I've been thinking: "Why stick with Ruby or Python and not move to Scala or Haskell?"
jiTouch! http://www.jitouch.com
A .ly domain? Really? The website seems to deal with highly confidential data, and they're basing it on a top-level domain from a dictatorship (Libya) whose leader is currently bombing peaceful demonstrators? (That's right, they're using fighter planes against demonstrators!)

Even before the current Libyan revolution there were problems with using .ly domains. E.g., Gadhafi recently made it illegal to use .ly domains for things deemed against Islam.
Looks like that in XP/FF 3.6.8 too.
Here are my add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/2519/

They cover areas like Twitter, feed readers, geolocation, productivity, YouTube, and random browser improvements.
> Ditching the optical media for longer battery life

I doubt the optical drive uses any significant power at all when it's not in use.

That said, I ditched my own in favor of an SSD + HDD setup and haven't looked back.
National security driving a Helium-3 shortage, hurting physics
My opinion is that they do count. Intuitively, a URL is a URL and whether it's from an HTML document or a Word doc it's the same thing. You'd have to put in a bunch of extra code to make it not work like that. It's a $9 test, get a random domain fhg56784ei3dg.com with a random keyword, do absolutely nothing with the domain, throw a link in a PDF and see if your site gets indexed :)
Azul's systems seem to be doing fine with hundreds of cores, and I'm pretty sure it's just modified linux.
I've heard that complaint about the power adapter a few times, but I've had no issues with the similar power adapter tip on my first generation Kindle in several years of use.
Maintainable Stylesheets: Can CSS Be Object-Oriented?
PayPal Shuts Down Service to Alleged Wikileaks Whistle-Blower Support Effort
Is that some briefcase-sized device you strap to your notebook with bungee cords?
Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2259185
As mentioned, ads but I'd view that more as supplemental income. I'd consider making some kind of plugin that integrates with a SaaS you run. The plugin would always remain free but i'd charge for the service once usage reaches a certain threshold. Make the service uber cheap like $1 and people wouldn't think twice about purchasing if it brought value to their daily life workflow.
PayPal is Morally Bankrupt now
Very cool idea. Would love an API!
That's a good example of the kind of mini-agenda I was talking about. (Most 10-minute phone call's only have 7 or 8 minutes talking time)

A good trick on the intro is to do your research on the firm first. I got his quick background and area of expertise and then did my 30-second self-description.

After that, instead of going into the product conversation I started by asking what he knew about the space, and then got his perspectives on current players and the strategy. It was only the last couple of minutes that I started talking about my solution. Your mileage my vary of course; if you're more interested in reaction to the product (or think that's your best selling point) then that's where to spend more time.
It this a qualified statement or are you just guessing?
I think what's meant is using that space for battery and not a useless optical drive.
Depends on what you're using it for I guess. For my typical day coding / web browsing / etc. I'd rather run two at 16bit instead of one at 24bit.

If I was editing movies it'd be a different story.
I think he meant (or this is certainly what I was hoping for) that removing the optical bay would leave space for a much larger battery.
Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics
Interesting error message: "Could not connect to localhost"
How to tell if your company's name sucks
I have way more; I downsample to temporary mongodb collections and display the closest resolution for the available width.

I also found it hard to decide on a resolution function for analytics. Do we show the maximum of a time range? The average? Median? Min and max?
It's perfectly reasonable for two entities to have trademarks on the same word, so long as they aren't in the same business. In this case (without looking at the relevant legal paperwork), HTC could trademark 'Thunderbolt' with respect to phones, mobile devices, whatnot, while Intel may have the trademark with respect to peripheral data connections. Nobody (except maybe Monster Cable) would have an issue with that arrangement.
It's a perfectly valid concern, but the way you write it, it sounds like a panicked frenzy...

http://www.uswitch.com/news/communications/apple-drops-out-o... is the original press release, I believe. There's precious little mention of methodology on the entire uswitch.com website, apart from "live searches and sales". Could it simply be the outgoing links from the uswitch website?
Well, working on a larger monitor eventually weans you of the obsessive need to full screen everything.

Once you get used to working with documents scattered all over, and clicking on them to move them to the front and so forth, it becomes a more productive way of working.

I'm not sure what it was about Windows that drove everyone to the full screen way of doing things. I think possibly the thing is that all windows look so similar on Windows that there was never really any visual clue about where the window you wanted had gotten to, so it made doing that style of navigation much harder.

I don't think the scaling is particularly good in Win 7. From memory it used to be better. I recently had a crack at using it, and I played around with different resolutions. Every single resolution that I tried other than the native one was blurry. Some were only a little bit blurry, but some were very blurry. I remember it being better than that (maybe I've just gotten fussier). I ended up in the native (highest) resolution because anything else was too horrible.
The number of potential customers for this model that actually know what that means is very small.

If Apple put in a 1900x1080 screen, what you'd hear instead from consumers is that everything is too tiny to read.
I've worked in education for over 10 years. 7 of which was on site at one of England's largest secondary schools whilst consulting for schools all over the country.

I've had first hand experience dealing with dozens of LA (what you call districts) technical teams that take this kind of attitude and frankly I find it appalling.

I remember when schools where trying to bring in electronic registration, and the LA network teams just didn't give a damn about the schools needs. Instead they made there own conclusions as to what the school needed, and to them, having a reliable network so the school could move into the 21st century wasn't one of them.

Schools are becoming more and more engaged in technology, and downtime and poorly maintained systems set teachers and the work they do, back. Teachers need to be able to rely on the technology, simple as that, no excuses.

You're not expected to reach 100%, but to admit defeat and argue for that defeat is poor form.
I hate to be that guy, but am I wrong in thinking that the only point made in this 2000 word article is "Don't spend money on advertising to get your iOS app to be successful"?

Of so, I'd like a prize for managing to deliver 150x human-readable compression :-)
Its been a long time since we've heard Yahoo announcing anything new. Makes me wonder if all the doom predictions are true..
a positive PHP post is on the front page of Hacker News.

ergo, Hacker News has officially jumped the shark.
Has anyone considered using an external video card with this? That would be a great use with desktop replacement laptops since it would actually be upgradeable.
I understand that there are pretty HUGE technical differences between SSDs and traditional HDDs. But from a user perspective it's just a faster component that uses less power...
Anon's left hand never knows what its right hand is doing. Unfortunately Anon has thousands of right hands.
Ah, Cedric. While I generally enjoy his blog posts, his anti-(everything but java) stance is wearing a bit thin.
Thunderbolt will replace them. And it will itself be subsequently replaced for its own shortcomings.
I'll do it for $40, and have a few who can attest to the awesomene-ness of the domains I suggest.

Email is in profile.
Those prices aren't bad at all based on some newegg comparisons. I was expecting a massive markup.