skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Even if I stipulate that Android will never be more than "good enough", a statement I would not necessarily agree with but let's go with it, you will still find a lot of not-Apple-partisans getting peeled off proportionally to the price delta between the iPhone and the Android. In which case Apple will either have to drop prices and profits or firmly entrench itself as the high-margin, low-sales player... and drop profits."

With iPod, Apple played this almost perfectly, driving down their component prices by always being the single biggest customer of their suppliers, then deciding how long they could charge a premium versus lowering prices to keep the delta with competitors prices from getting too large. They kept the prices close enough that most consumers were willing to pay the premium for the Apple brand.

I actually think they will do the same thing with iPhone. They are getting close to having the previous iPhone version a "free" throw in with new contract, and there are rumors of Apple developing an even lower version for pay-as-you-go contracts.

I think angering content providers is a much bigger risk for Apple right now.
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US needs to get better at preventing foreign access to advanced technology
Why is apache so slow compared to Nginx, Cherokee, Lighttpd and many other web server softwares?
Uh, no. I deleted my account almost a year ago and have no plans to reconstitute it. I am more than happy to block Facebook and any other, similar, digital tentacles of intrusions into privacy.
http://www.Jobs4hunt.com

1) Typically I don't like when sites force me to open things in new windows, which happens when I click job postings.

2) The Tell a Friend image seems cluttered, have you tried aligning it to the right?
Depends on the place -- at least where I've worked around here, lunch breaks have largely coincided with either individual preference, and the proximity to nearby (fairly quick) eateries.

If you're in a part of town, for example, where it takes a 10 minute metro ride to get to the nearest restaurant, it seems illogical to enforce a half hour lunch.
Once I had a website with very little information that could be used to track me down, however someone was able to and even sent me a message on Facebook. I've been very cautious since then.

I'd say use a real name if you need to 'really' contact them, if not make a fake email and use it, but be consistent.
If this passes, I could easily see this abused.
Go native for the dev "emulator" is what I meant, just like Apple does for the iOS SDK.

All of the tools the Android SDK uses to build APKs (even NDK ones) support x86 as a target and Android itself will run on x86. There are certainly some apps that require ARM specific (eg. NEON) instruction sets but those are in the vast minority compared to the whole of the Android App ecosystem and Honeycomb running on an emulated ARM isn't really a solution for even those folks, the emulator is basically useless for everyone now.
Right on. I have lived in Baltimore almost my entire life. I'm a PhD candidate at Hopkins now, but if I do a startup when I finish, I'd much rather stay here than move to California.
Choosing between portability and innovation
No Darcs? Personally I prefer darcs over other distributed version control systems, unfortunately their tooling is somewhat behind and due to the github craze we're forced to use git on many projects,it's very sad as the ease, the features, and simplicity of darcs is in my opinion unparalleled by any of the others listed.
I took up a pottery class this past winter. It was perfect because it surrounded me with people who knew how to take things slow, sit down and focus on the task at hand. It provided the necessary mental shift I needed to not feel overwhelmed by the day-to-day ADHD-like issues of managing a huge project for the first time. I think that if I hadn't taken the class, I would have been more susceptible to burnout.
For many who apply to YC, this isn't really an alternative.

"Please note applicants must be eligible to live and work in Ireland."
But even this gargantuan effort is a better option than just "let's deploy and wait for our users to tell us if anything has gone wrong".

To be fair it sounds like in the original article that they did do some verification that things were working after the deployment. However for some reason their verification tests didn't reveal the presence of a real bug.

Even in a more gargantuan system, it's possible to have tests that give false positive results.

Everyone will screw up releases at some point, the key is to be able to learn from them and get better.
We've had to wait longer for cheap computers from places like Dell if ordered with XP than with win7. If you're in a hurry and just need a basic desktop for someone, it's something to consider. At least that's how we ended up with a mix of 2k, XP, and win7.
> No real-world thing can actually be Turing complete

But when you say Turing-complete, I assume something along the lines of "a programming language can be built on top of it and you can create interactive applications using such a programming language instead of javascript".

It seems like that's not the case at all.
The implied second step to this method is that you have to be constantly on the alert to hear or read about new tricks. In Feynman's time this was much more difficult in industry than in academia, but nowadays thanks to the Internet I suspect it is applicable even if you work a desk job at a software development firm.
Even your comment right there gives too much information. I think you should have withheld the person's line of work.
Thanks ffumarola
Your points are noted.
Regarding point 1, many people asked for it. But lets see what is the feedback from HN
I suspect you are using git the way you use svn. In that case there's little or no benefit. It's essentially the "Blub VCS" problem. Using Git or Mercurial offer a few very powerful things, but they won't seem like much until you have the "Aha!" moment. If you're interested, read the workflow parts of http://progit.org/book/ and see what you think.
I have a nephew who works for Menard's. Facebook gives Menard's specific privileges and tools to monitor the accounts of their employees. One of their rules is that management and floor employees can't socialize. At all. Well, my nephew, a floor employee has a friend who is now a manager. By which I mean that the friendship predates the employment.

They're smart enough never to post anything on Facebook about anything they do together, but a few months ago they went out for an evening on their motorcycles, and the friend and my niece posted about riding bikes on the same day.

Management talked to both of them the next morning, and pointedly threatened my nephew's job.

That is the world Mark Zuckerberg is proud of. That is the world he considers to have integrity. Instead of decrying the spread of petty fascism, he figures he can get rich selling the tools. The man is a sociopath.
Make GitHub part of your professional reputation
I don't get it. My thoughts:

1) Browser with adblocker? Firefox + Adblock covers what you're trying to do.

2) Bad websites = Porn to you. So your browser will block porn out of the box? Then it doesn't sound like your market is "everyone" to me. And, people aren't as puritan as you may think. Especially the puritans.

3) Minimalistic UI? Chrome + Adblock

4) How would you rate it 1 to 5? Make sure you define which is the worst and which is the best, otherwise your data will be unreliable.
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I shall definitely check out the last three links. I'll look at the FB group but I, unfortunately, use FB only for personal stuff and am very disinclined to mix my professional and personal life on FB. Just me, not a critique of you!
It's only half a joke. The great PC revolution was that users became their own data processing departments. So pre-PC devices had users that were blind to the question of which Mag tape or removable hard drive platter held the data they needed for a report. PCs put us all to work as data processing minions, just as rotary dial telephones put us all to work as operators.

So if you turn your head sideways and squint, there are some similarities between pre-PC and post-PC devices.
Nix: A purely functional package manager
When I was twelve, I decided to do that. No one else thought it was as good of an idea as I did...

These days I don't reserve 40 days to give it up, I give it up all year round!
It's a good technical idea, bad start-up idea. Facebook would nuke it on sight.
you guys don't even know how motivating it is to read stuff like this. I am forwarding these comments to folks I know in the economic development community. Perhaps we can get a bit more institutional backing for things like this so we can provide more resources to people in your exact spot!
>The current over-abundance of food is changing the the timing of puberty for example.

Is it food availability, do you have a citation - I hypothesised that this was due to the wash of oestrogen-like chemicals and hormone disruptors in domestic use in the more developed nations.

Edit: an example citation - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/...; other articles note the increase in the use of soya in countless processed foods and the high levels of oestrogenic chemicals it has.
Ambition and hard work go hand-in-hand. - Adii Pienaar, co-founder, WooThemes
Like most, I disagree that having multiple identities are coming to an end. But I think it is a good thing that Facebook comments are being used on other sites because it will promote integrity. Not every site will use Facebook comments so when we want to dawn a different, anonymous personality, we can close the Techcrunch tab and open a different site that allows anonymous comments. Each site will have its own environment and purpose. I think it is a good thing that we are moving from an almost completely anonymous Internet to an Internet that allows you to be anonymous or not depending on the situation.
Good intro. I've been using sunspot for a year on a ruby webapp (merb, I found the sunspot lib nicely framework agnostic). It took a few hours to setup and get my content indexed. Its been running in production for a year with zero maintenance.
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If your time is cheap and your IT department is free, Windows on a blowout-priced Dell is a bargain.

If there's one thing that's killing corporations it's this narrow focus on acquisition costs and a near total disregard for support costs. People moan about Apple being "too expensive" all the time, but the reality is most computers are too cheap.

I hope one of the major vendors develops some alternative to Windows. HP is shovelling billions into Microsoft's pockets with nothing to show for it.
What counts as private/public? If I show someone a project I'm working on but I've never shown anyone else, can this person go patent it?
The Wire (while being an incredible show) definitely hurt Baltimore in terms of its reputation. There are some fantastic areas around, and the culture is very inspiring.
From that comment, I'll assume you're not in Europe. We've had the telecoms regulated somewhat sensibly and "racing to the bottom" for a while. And while it's not perfect I will note that during my last foray into purchasing phone contracts it seemed fairly difficult to avoid getting infinite text messages thrown into the deal (though I did manage it since I got a very cheap, effectively data-only plan which is all I needed).
"If"? It went into effect January 1st, 1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act

I was surprised by that date too. I know things take time to work through the courts, but wow. Apparently the case was originally filed in 2001.
You can flash your cereal box MCSE and get a job in the corporate world, but usually start-ups are far more discriminating.
You mean for a bootable partition? If so, then how to restore it? Can the partition be backed up while the OS on it is booted?

Backup to where? To a file on another disk in the same computer, on another computer, to removable media?

I'm running Windows XP SP3 and finally figured out how to use its NTBACKUP to get a copy of a bootable partition and how to restore it. Lesson: Likely need to practice and then take own, clear notes on the details. I wrote some scripts.

The removable media I've been using is just DVDs, and they top out at about 4 GB per DVD. For 20 GB, 200 GB, 1 TB, etc, 4 GB DVDs are a bummer.

I haven't tried double sided DVDs or BluRay. There is the old 'linear tape open' LTO option with about 1 TB per tape, but the drives, and likely the tapes, are expensive, and I know nothing ahout the software available.

Another option is to get a maybe 2 TB external hard disk connected via USB, but, again, I know nothing about the available software, if can do a 'synchronization', etc.
it's a fair critique and you aren't the first to mention it. But I will say it's vastly accelerated the exchange of ideas and feeling of community in Baltimore so overall it's a net win. There's also a network of twitter accounts to follow if that's more your taste (@startupbmore @ignitebaltimore @bmorehackathon @startupdigestmd @bootstrapmd @innovatebmore etc etc)
I doubt that YC measures their investment based on valuation. Imagine the companies they invested that had just the idea formed. How do you valuate that? Even in a stable business, valuation is still a bunch of guesses, how much future cash flow the company will generate, what will the investor opportunity cost be in X years, etc...

I would think more of a bet instead of valuation when thinking of seed investment in a start-up. What I would say they do is standardize their bets, using their history and benchmarking theirs with other investors. YC's standard bet is around ~$20k for ~6% equity, that's all.
And who would wind up owning those copyrights?
That's true, but compared to a single nearly-3-year-old movie, they're way up on this new venture.
Reviewboard http://www.reviewboard.org/
How difficult is it to sell an idea to a large company?
I have an idea for a new business model for the online advertising industry, I enrolled in a "how to start your own business" course and have a pretty solid business plan. My next step is to seek some grants and innovation funding to pay a software developer to create an interactive prototype and working model.

Once I do this I am unsure as to what my next step should be.

I have no real intention of trying to set this up on my own and build it for a few years and then look to be acquired by a larger company. I Would like to pitch my idea to a big company like Google, Facebook etc.

I have a few contacts in these companies and scheduling a meeting is not really the issue, I am just unsure how you go about pitching an idea and valuing it? do I seek a partnership? offer equity for money? what protection do I need in place before I pitch my idea?

I am just wondering if anyone has any experience pitching an idea to sell rather than a business which is operational?

I would really appreciate anyones help as I am a one man band at the moment.

Thanks
Then you assumed a falsehood. Turing completeness is a mathematical concept that has nothing to do with interactive applications.
This is my excuse for browsing HN all day instead of working. Just being a genius!
Right, I was wondering about that too. Same for CVS.
It should be there. But if its not for some reason, its startupz.net@gmail.com. Id be more then happy to tell you about them. Thanks.
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Same with the "47% of developers use it as their primary version control system at work" Shouldn't that be more like ~20% given that the two pie charts for win/mac showed ~40 and ~15?
Link: http://www.ioccc.org/2001/ (herrmann1 files)
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I think it's increasingly looking like it's time for open-source persona management software.
That seems to refer to Subversion, which seems to jive with the top bar graph.
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I'll assume you're not in Europe

'fraid not. Here in Canada, the Oligopolistic situation seems worse (if that can be imagined) than in the US. It is possible to buy bundles with effectively unlimited text messaging, but overall the situation for Internet and wireless telephony is anything but an efficient, competitive market.

So, "Yay for Europe!"
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Private beta
Are there any suggestions on how to properly explain a private beta roll out plan?
So you are saying that protected desktop accepts key presses only from some but not all keyboards connected to system? That does not seem quite right.

And as for UAC and protected desktop: take debugger and look at how most UAC prompts are invoked. Many of them are caused by user-space code running in address space of "offending" process, so you can patch them out.
Yeah, perhaps that is just me and people I associate with, but most people nowadays seem to understand how to open links in new tabs.
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"eval", followed by whatever chars are required to get a string.

I think you mean "the minimum to get a Turing Machine", which is not the same. But I am being pedantic. Very, very pedantic. As befits the topic. :)
I use to use Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.info/) on windows. Thanks for this.
WTF? - They still make sites like this?
A friend sent me this site to show that there are still people who like clip-art...... I am not one of them.
So much of public messaging around privacy seems to make light of people's concerns around it. I believe this is deliberate social conditioning. Some of your friends end up picking up on the verbiage and soon you are surrounded. "Awww come on, it's harmless."

Never give out enough information for someone to clone you online.
The real question is if this can deal with arbitrary amounts of finite memory. That is, could I express an instance of a program that requires a trillion "units" of memory w/o constructing a new "machine" that explicitly laid it out?
Another vote for Nick Kew's book. He is a regular poster on the modules-dev mailing list[1], by the way.

`httpd -X` and `gdb httpd $(pidof httpd)` are a great help when debugging.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-modules-dev/
My whimsical hope: that an OS distro based on the XOmB exokernel will be called "Exosystem, eXperimental Operating system-XOmB" or "Exs XO-XOmB" for short.
When I say "Turing complete", I mean Turing equivalent to a Turing machine. Since there are infinitely many Turing machines but I'm pretty sure humanity has access to a finite amount of state. I mean it strictly in the theoretical sense.
GLib supposedly has some pretty solid C base libraries for string handling and other common tasks.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.28/glib-String-Utility...
Word to the wise, this was preventing any ReCaptcha's from appearing (for me). Great ext otherwise.
I assume the survey had options like love / like / tolerate / dislike / loathe-with-the-fury-of-a-thousand-exploding-suns and the heart graphic was derived from some combination of those rather than just how many chose the "love" option. "Love or like", perhaps. [EDITED to add: actually, more likely an average score, like the ratings on Amazon.]
I agree. Let's take Boston as the extreme example of where one could choose a nearly "optimal" college while still living at home. Local availability of good education options coupled with the high cost of off-campus housing in the area probably makes the adverse selection bias I observed in Cleveland much weaker in Boston. In Ohio, off-campus housing is generally cheaper than living in a dorm room. However, I'm told that dorms are coveted at places like NYU because the universities effectively subsidize rents compared to market rates.
There's plenty of things that are Turing Complete but that shouldn't be used for interactive applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_metaprogramming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

and now apparently HTML + CSS
We use PagerDuty (http://pagerduty.com) at HipChat and while I absolutely loathe being woken up by it, it's helped us identify issues during off-peak hours much more quickly.

But no matter what systems you have in place or how many hundreds of deploys you've done, there's always a new way for things to break.
Are there any significant barriers to use the event MPM as it stands in the 2.2.

Does it fall back to worker when its used under SSL?
I do the designs myself - thanks for the compliment!
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. smokescreen "exists" too - http://smokescreen.us/demos/js/smokescreen.0.1.3-min.js
Ah good point, didn't know about that. I know that when Poland et al. joined in 2004, there were not restrictions. I thought it was similar for the 2007 new assencession states.
Do you have any more information or links referring to the Facebook-Menard's deal? That sounds scandalously interesting, but I can't find anything discussing it.
Sorry, you're totally right. My bad.
You got it, and I wonder why nobody mentioned this before. That was my first reaction, too.
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Google, PayPal, Facebook are here

Amazon aswell. Their AWS EU datacentre is in Ireland.
I find it a bit surprising (if not hard to believe) that hg is more common than git in professional use. That said, I don't find it hard to believe that hg users have more love for their tool than git users.. Before becoming an avid git user I tried both and found hg's commands much more lucid.
It's so much more subtle than this. Regulation is great, but I'm not sure you can attribute the speeds you see in foreign broadband to that alone.

In the quest for "balance" between public and private interests, the Telecom Act of '96 created a scenario where carriers still "owned" their network, but had to share access based on a set of rules. The problem is, everyone who came to play still had to use the same old infrastructure.

The RBOCs weren't stupid. When it came time to upgrade the infrastructure, they came to the table ready to negotiate. Because they knew the voting public would never accept a publicly built and owned nationwide fiber optic network, the carriers negotiated incentives so ridiculous, they almost sound like a work of satire.

Cable companies managed to avoid the regulation hammer altogether, but have consistently "out innovated" the telcos. I use that term loosely, but when you're studying regulated vs unregulated, it's pretty easy to see that unregulated "won" here in the US. Unregulated didn't really win though. The regulated model we use here in the US is flawed.

When carriers are forced to share their privately owned infrastructure, the incentive to upgrade the network goes away. The US is too large, and land-use rights too difficult to navigate in order for there to be a competitive market.

I believe we'd be much better off if we were to adopt a model not unlike our national highway system. All the fiber would be laid and owned by the public. Regional tandems would work just like they do now, but would be publicly owned facilities. Private carriers would pay for space at the tandem, but anyone is able to come and bid at auction, similar to the way spectrum is auctioned off. The incentive to keep the infrastructure up to date would be driven by voter interest.
I read this as "TDD"... That didn't sound as entertaining. :-)
What is a webblocker?
I think you misread. It's 63% of people not using code review professionally.