skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what kind of gaming you want to do, playing some passive wow (I hear raids take up a lot) would probably do ok, or most of the simpler games out there. But even something like hl2 will still have trouble with intel graphics, not really for gamers.
Maybe this is the place where I've been going wrong. Although I was simply following the way it was done at the Apple store I got it from.

We'll see!
A USB port has 4 fairly large pins...

Why couldn't they just only use the four pins included with USB? (although that would mean an end to the standardized dock connector)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) blocked the PROTECT IP act at the end of May.

"Wyden Places Hold on Protect IP Act

Overreaching Legislation Still Poses a Significant Threat to Internet Commerce, Innovation and Free Speech

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Washington, D.C. – Continuing his opposition to legislation that aims to protect intellectual property at the expense of free speech, technological innovation and the very foundations of the Internet, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has issued the following statement announcing a hold on the motion to proceed to the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP)...

more at http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=33a39533-...
Investing in Bitcoin is like investing in the stock market, but with none of the protections, oversight, or the experience to know not to repeat some of the same mistakes as let's say...the 1930s.
How do you explain the same split occuring on the Magsafe connectors? Those are designed to pop right out if you yank them by the cord, so very little strain is going to be put on the wire sleeve. I've seen a lot of Magsafes split in the exact way depicted in the picture.
Not quite right. In a little endian system, the least significant byte is the leftmost one (ie, lowest address). The order of bits within a byte is the same regardless of endianness.

So 10 is always 2.
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That guy must be really, really, mad. Who would not like "allow access to data on mail.google.com"?
Cupertino Councilwoman Brushes Off “Free WiFi” Question as Joke
Apple May be Recalling Some Verizon iPads
This is a very good question. The bump magic is timing and data, I can't think of any reason for a special protocol.
The touchpad on my Mac laptops are the reason I'll never buy another non-Mac laptop again. Best tactile surface I've ever felt.
The ability to discipline yourself with nothing but the power of your mind is one of the single greatest skills a human can have. Put the ice cream cone down, and pick up a book, then go to the gym then finish up that big project you started 3 months ago. It is the art of taking control of your own body even though it hurts. It's what separates kings from bums lying around on the side of the road.
Severe lack of good "Chrome apps"? Every web app that has ever existed is a "Chrome app."
This is completely normal for bitcoin. It was always an extremely volatile market.
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I am genuinely intrigued by the MBA, but I can't seem to get my head around getting that instead of a MBP 13" (I would be getting a MBA 13", 11" is too small for me).

Aside from weight, which isn't a real concern for me in a MBP 13", if I decked out a MBP 13" w/ an SSD, is there a compelling reason to still go with an MBA? One of my main concerns is that the MBA can only go to 4GB of ram while the MBP can theoretically go to 16GB. Seems more future proofing etc.

Just so you know, I do mostly iOS, Android, and Web dev (Ruby, Python, JS and Erlang).

I also have several Ubuntu instances up at all times if I'm doing iOS or I run Ubuntu the majority of the time if I'm doing other stuff (Ubuntu is still a better dev environment, IMO, but that is for a different post :) )
If you can get away with unreasonably high sounding prices, it's only because there's a demand for your service and not enough suppliers with your level of quality. As such, it's only a matter of time before someone comes by and undersells you with a similar service.

So it's not just "more fair" to set reasonable prices -- like your gut suggests -- but they also discourage competitors from appearing.

I guess the real question is whether or not you're willing to risk future competition for the short term benefits of increased profits.
Usenet was a truly amazing thing. The problem was that it just wasn't scalable, there was a sweet spot relative to community size that if you happened to be around to experience was amazing, but as the internet has grown, and grown, and grown usenet became less and less sustainable. And now we're trying to claw our way back up to that level by inventing new systems that handle the scaling problems of communities better, but it's been and will continue to be a long slog.
Good point.

This might have been one (of many) considerations when changing to the new Macbook power connectors. With the current design, there is no point in pulling straight on the cord as you described. The user must pull to the side of the strain relief, which allows it to do its job.

Has anyone had these problems with the new magsafe connectors?
The problem is with the the cables from the past couple of years, that's probably why your stuff works and his more recent gear does not.
I thought I read that one of the purposes for the new connectors was strain-relief related?

The old MagSafe connectors were a pain to use if you wanted to bend the cable towards the back and really seemed like an improvement (at least for my use). I admit I haven't tried them, though.

I doubt Apple will shift back to the normal power connectors unless they come up with a new design, though -- what's the point in going back?
Watch"the human centipede 2"online"free"megavideo
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orture and murder his victims naked. An example is a scene early in the film where he masturbates while watching a DVD of the original movie man Centipede with sandpaper wrapped around his penis
Opposite of a URL shortener?
Hey all! I'm looking for a service or software that's the opposite of a URL service, the anti-bitly: given a short URL, to give us the expansion... do you know of any services like this? (Hmph, I haven't programmed in a decade - maybe this is a fun little project to try!)
I believe the 13" MBA has a higher screen resolution than available in the 13" MBP.
Your comment "There's no user experience on cables" makes it clear that you really don't understand Apple. Users experience the entirety of Apple products and there isn't a user-facing component that doesn't get serious design scrutiny.

And yes, Apple probably know what they're doing. But they're not building failure into their cables, I can promise you that. They may be making a trade-off between the look and feel of the cable and its longevity, but that's very different from designing failure into the component.
If only our policymakers accepted this. Unfortunately, they are still clinging to economic models which reduce the economy to 2 variables (occasionally a few more) and simple calculus.

Not that they even pay attention to the predictions of those 2 variable models...
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350k Books: House collapsing under the weight
Thanks for the link, 1997 &2000, eh? No wonder my recollection is so vague...

I notice the article mentions "various unix Systems" then goes on to talk exclusively of the FreeBSD web front end. I still have vague (perhaps 12 year old) memories aout the actual mail storage and management being Sun kit... (mostly from the point of view of a bunch of friends who worked at Sun being outrageously amused at the ballsup of multiple attempts at migration...)
We're a bit off-topic, but... Transactions on DDL, a lack of tons of gotchas, good replication, partial indexes, document orientation and querying, a pretty query language, ripping speed, horizontal scalability, a history of good architecture, consistent hashing, etc are reasons to select something other than MySQL.
I believe the new MagSafe connectors were redesigned partially to deal with strain problems. I forget where I read it but it made sense when I came across it.

As for the design, I'm inclined to agree with squidbot and say that the thread is a load of crap. It paints a poor picture of ID at Apple. I might be able to believe it at other companys but in the glimpse I've gotten into the design process at different keynotes, I find it hard to believe ID is so aesthetically siloed nowadays.

I'm sure ID passed deemed it as some sort of acceptable level of strain.
My impression is that it's a historical milestone for anyone with a strong belief in labor laws, union politics and so forth. At least, it was from such people that I heard about it in the first place - I'm not American so I would not have come across it in school.

It strikes me that you're likely to receive some extremely hostile publicity if someone thinks you're leveraging the (perceived) familiarity of the term as a branding mechanism - you'll be demonized as a stereotypical callous capitalist milking the suffering of the helpless workers for a quick buck and so forth. That this isn't your intention at all would be beside the point if someone chooses to get worked up about it.
In my extremely unscientific personal test, the iPod data cable actually came out of my iPhone with less force required than attempting to unplug the MagSafe cable from my laptop.

Of course, that wouldn't be the case when the pulling isn't completely in-line with the socket (although you can exert quite an amount of strain on a MagSafe cable by pulling it out sideways). I think it's too simple to assume that MagSafe wouldn't suffer from this problem.

The explanation given by the parent post rings true for me, certainly I've had these kinds of splits in plenty of cables with traditional "strain-relief" on. I think I'm going to stop unplugging things by tugging the cable. :)
Best definition I've heard (paraphrased from Steve Blank — http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...): a startup is a company that is in search of a viable business model, and is scientifically experimenting with different routes to business success in an iterative fashion, switching ("pivoting") when an experiment gives them data that falsifies their current-best hypothesis for an effective way to make money.

To contrast, a non-startup company has a viable business model, and simply "does what it does," not constantly attempting to reinvent itself as something else.
There are no such conventions, you have just implanted in your mind this idea that there should be such conventions. People say that quicksort is O(n log n) all the time. They say that hash tables are O(1). It is normal for O notation to refer to average case or a set of cases with probability 1 of occurring.
Hitting the wall with my project
Hi,

I am sure most of you have experienced this, mostly complete your project then you start doubting it and start thinking of doing other things.

My app is not live yet so had no feed back, probably half the issue but i can stilp see there is lots to do and just feel i am running out of steam.

Tips and thoughts anyone?
...to coal to petroleum

The fact that you think humans have by any means made the technological "leap" from coal to petroleum (or anywhere really) makes you look wildly ignorant on this issue.
hey, two things and we're working on them:

a) Scrolling sucks since it has to use momentum scrolling. None of the current WP implementation uses Swipecore, our framework for touch publishing. This will fix a lot and is actually quite pleasant

b) Opt-out link should work. Going to submit a fix for this soon.

Feel free to talk more indepth: j@onswpe.com
Yup, you can do that, but the faster you go the less you'll be deflected, and you won't get a speed increase as you would with a normal planetary assist.
Binary analysis only addresses this if you manage to analyze everything involved in the system: OS kernel, utilities, device drivers, bootloader, ROM BIOS, etc. And then you have to not let any untrusted tool touch any of those components.

After all, analyzing the binary file only protects you if you can guarantee that the same bits get loaded into memory and executed unmodified.

Thompson's technique could easily have been extended so that the code that loaded executable pages would look for a binary signature of the login code, and modified it at load time. If you do the same thing for the binary signature of the file loading code, you get the exact same thing Thompson described, but at the level of binary machine code going from disk to memory, instead of at the level of code going from source to executable.

However many levels you analyze, in theory the adversary could have gone one level further in their attack, unless you build everything yourself (including the CPU, presumably).
Motorola Photon 4G with WiMAX Android smartphone on Sprint
Motorola officially unveiled a new Android terminal, its first Android smartphone with WiMAX connectivity called Motorola Photon 4G on Sprint.
I can't even begin to comprehend the stupidity that went into this blog post.

The entire point of the Chromebook is that your OS is constantly updated, and you're complaining about it updating when you start it for the first time? Also: rich coming from someone that works for Microsoft. A fresh install of Windows has nearly a gig of updates to download.

It tells you what product you're using after booting for the first time? You know, like basically every product in existence? Let me introduce you to the dozens of Welcome to Windows screens you get after installing your company's OS.

I honestly didn't think it was possible for someone to physically complain about getting a free taste of 3G service, but there you go on your silly little rant.

Yes, it's not without its flaws. But for what it's aiming to do: be an extremely accessible internet-browsing laptop that has absolutely zero IT overhead, it's a great first shot as a flagship product. Give it 6 months to a year for a lot of the kinks to be worked out, some better file-system interaction, third-part offline Chrome apps to come out, and for the prices to drop a little. Or don't, because you clearly already made your mind up about the product before even laying a finger on it.
What does it mean to get 'slotted' at Google?
Chrome's extensions can live as entirely unique tabs for offline apps. Shorthand: Chrome apps.
Most Malware Tied to 'Pay-Per-Install' Market
A lot of commenters suggest to do something else instead of taking cold showers. I don't see the need to trade cold showers with anything as you certainly are able to e.g. lift weights AND take cold showers! Why not get the benefits of both?

If nothing else, taking cold showers at least prepares you to having a swim in cold water (in a hole in the frozen sea) while attending sauna during winter time in Finland.. :-)
Not to mention that lack of structural typing and Mixins make it even harder to actually have reuse. Dynamic languages like Python and Ruby solve this beautifully, and so do Go and Scala on the more static type side.
Sure. It's great. So why waste it taking cold showers?

This article is so completely pointless it makes my head spin.
Are you getting them all replaced at the same store? My only thought is that it would be a bad batch (given I haven't heard of this kind of chronic issue elsewhere).
This. Also if you're reading with the computer sideways in bed, this puts crazy strain on the old adapter, but the new adapter is just fine.
Large farms in Australia use trail bikes and helicopters to muster cattle already.
"It's the right tool for the job (as opposed to something very different, from the NoSQL world)"

If I may toot my own horn, I just upgraded the layout of http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ so that you can scroll while the video stays visible.
How can any sane person say Microsoft has not delivered anything cloud computing related? That seems similar to saying the sun doesn't exist while staring at it.

Unless you're blind or have not been paying any attention to Microsoft for the past ~ > 4 years . .

Others have put forward [incomplete] lists of Microsoft's various 'cloud' services and I'll add one.

Microsoft Azure. Hell, wasn't there a story on the frontpage of HN a day or so ago that iCloud uses it? I haven't read much into it so it may be a rumour.
How you clear your HTML5 Canvas matters
Can you post a list of your /hosts/
Why isn't this running Android? I think I might pay $299 for a nice 12'' netbook running linux...
Well, if they killed their brand they're now resurrecting it.

Who does not know of the Xbox? What average family does not want Office on their PC/Mac? Look at the success of Windows7.. and so on..
This and many other posts are all good answers, but the point of the problem was simply to be able to think non-technologically and non-computer, not always an easy task for a class of computer science college students naturally disposed to think that code and clean code is the solution to all the world's problems. The precise best way to set up a telltale with ice is not the main concern. :)
Yay! Another useless benchmark!
Gamma-ray bursts happen all the time, and aren't dangerous to us--the Earth's atmosphere absorbs all of the gamma-rays.
I worked for Ben about 10 years ago - definitely a fun and interesting experience. I still follow him on twitter and read most of the papers/articles he links to. You might be interested in his open source AGI code: http://opencog.org/
Looking at http://www.gizmag.com/hoverbike/18813/picture/135534/ , I'd like to see the protective grille extend over the entire front fan duct, with holes small enough that not even your hands can get through. Suppose you have a small collision with an object, which could throw you over the handlebars and into the front propeller...
You will have to become a Jedi.
They're now doing a lot better now -- and have been for a few years, it seems.

People love Windows7 and the virus/security thing is now no longer cool to say. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is widely proclaimed as one of the best security apps available -- recently there was a thread on Reddit asking for 'Must have free apps' and seemingly every second person was suggesting MSE. In regards to maintenance, registry cleaners, defraggers and the like all seem to be fading away from our view. Like with security, speaking of 'BSODs' has dramatically died down and Win7 is not known for stability issues.
Check Tropo.com. It accepts customers from outside the US and international SMS's are 2 cents a piece. Not all operators are supported, though. E.g. there is one operator in Belgium Tropo doesn't send to. Your mileage may vary (Germany will probably be better covered).
While in the general case you may be absolutely right, my iPhone power cable suffers from this exact problem, and I have always removed it by grabbing the connector body, not the cable.

I know it's just one anecdote, and your assessment probably applies to a large number of these cases... but it doesn't apply to all of them.
Would Massive Spending on the Part of Google Crowd Out other Private Investment?
Sure, but they should not say that hash tables are "O(1)", (perhaps "average case O(1)" is better). Unlike qsort's n^2 worst case, the conditions that degrade hash tables are very common: all you have to do is specify a crappy hash function for your load, or size the table poorly.

This is kind of a silly semantics argument... but, if you interview for a job and look like a deer in the headlights when I said hash tables aren't O(1), NO HIRE.
So you bought one license 2 years ago. Presumably it worked.

What's the problem again?
The alarms would start going off again when empty boxes reached the precision scales. Behold, an $8mil broken-fan detector.
Wikileaks: cables reveal Tiananmen Square massacre did not happen
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Chrome Web Store - installable, available offline apps/games:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Steve Jobs apparently thinks (Or thought) there was something wrong with them.
Sounds like a benefit for the other 99.999% of inmates. Win/Win?
I assume a company can be a startup even if they haven't yet seen the need to pivot, assuming they're prepared for (maybe expect?) that eventuality? Or are 2 founders in an apartment hacking away at a prototype not a startup until after they've thrown the first one away?

It sounds to me like it's a matter of attitude, rather than size, or business model, or age of the company.
A mystifying comment. Because today's banks are loaded up with sleazy bad actors, there's no such thing as compounding interest? Because S&P sold its reputation for a few deals, there's no such thing as creditworthiness?
i've notice that if you go at an angle it's easier to yank the magsafe cable. straight on it a lot stronger. I'm assuming ti's due to the angle making the force be applied to a small region and not the whole magnet.
I've been ending at least 80% of my showers with a minute or two of cold water since getting the 4 hour body a few months ago. It was definitely hard at first, then got easier, then got somewhat hard again (started to seem pointlessly masochistic), but all in all I feel it's been worthwhile.
Huge number * .999 is probably still a huge number. But they said Huge * small = Large which suggests small is <1 but not tiny. AKA something like 1% to 10%
I still find it disconcerting on HN when an argument ends with someone saying, "you're right". It's like the normal rules of the Internet just don't apply here. It's one of my favourite things about this community. To you, personally: kudos for maintaining that spirit!
Wow... interesting. For some reason I would have expected that discipline to carry over. How long were you in the army? I'd be interested in asking you a few questions if you're up for it.
Could you please enlighten me?

In the fluid mode, the text on the two panes need not be of the same height given the insertions and deletions. So when scrolling, the scroll speeds for the two panes would need to be different. Is this what is being talked about?
The culture one is really interesting. Other ones which helped me a lot:

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/02/21/creating-a-product-...

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2011/02/21/creating-a-product-...
The author starts with a disclaimer "I do work for Microsoft so you can expect bias" and ends with a conclusion like "we can absolutely dismiss this thing because of its shitty OS."

Maybe because it's not running Windows?
Telco deregulation correlates with the birth of the entire commercial Internet. The Internet of Ma Bell-era telephony was a toy for wealthy universities and government research labs.

In fact, speaking as someone who helped build an ISP in the '90s, the adoption of the Internet --- as provided by indie IP-as-dialtone ISPs --- was owed entirely to the CLECs and their willingness to route numbers in hundreds of telephone prefixes down a PRI to a single server cage. The CLECs were almost literally the manifestation of telco deregulation; deregulation was practically a synonym for "let there be CLECs".

I call this out this simply as an illustration of the bogosity of the logic of your entire comment.
There must be more to it given the backlash I am seeing on my comments.

I do not have a Mac, so cannot try it myself.