skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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They simply believe that iOS + cloud is a better way to compute.

At WWDC. I won't say anything specific, but I'm beginning to think that Apple's business model is/has been to take all the awesome stuff that people developed in research labs since the 60's, and they're implementing it when/where it makes sense.

Basically, Apple has been in the business of arbitrage of R&D awesomeness. (As opposed to the most common use of R&D as a corporate epeen.) Considering there's decades of unimplemented (or badly implemented) good ideas, this seems like a sustainable model.
SMS are going away, so are the revenues
Stand-alone code for numerical computing
But note that this is an argument for encapsulating data and not necessarily bundling it with methods as objects. You can hide data reps with functions.
Ask HN: Where to buy MS SQL 2008 Standard R2 64-bit
I need to purchase the above mentioned software. MS store and Newegg only sell the 32 bit edition. Can anyone recommend a reseller that won't take ages to establish a line of credit with?

I'm currently downloading the trial edition, as it actually is 64-bit, and hoping that it allows me convert to the paid edition easily. I'm not really holding out much hope on that, however. There is 0 information on the trial website about purchase paths from the trial. I'm literally spending hours trying to figure out how to give Microsoft my money...

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Does Social Media make people miserable?
Right. I mean, I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but in the interest of fairness I thought it was worth pointing out that gaming isn't as much of an anti-mac argument as it used to be, which is what the mtw seemed to be implying.
I gave a perfectly clear explanation of what he wrote in case you had any difficulty in reading it. Which, as it turns out you did. When confronted with this, you accuse me of getting creative and now say the clear explanation is strained. I will remind you that earlier you accepted the explanation as something a reasonable person might say (you qualified it saying it would be unlikely). They are two very simple sentences and the logic as I demonstrated is quite easy to follow. I think that perhaps you have misread them the first time, and are now just being stubborn.

You then moved on to trying to make Andi out to be some sort of miscreant to justify your argument. Andi didn't write other strange things. What Andi wrote in the first place wasn't strange either, Andi has not shown himself to be a stupid luddite.

In future if you are going to quote what I write or anyone else writes you would do well to include in full the part of the sentence you are responding to:

>>Time and again I've said [Andi's] comments are not relevant, nor do they show anything of the sort, what has you so agitated about the one in the link you provided?

I've said that the other things that Andi wrote were not relevant, and that they aren't strange. You can't say that I accepted he wrote other strange things, again we are back to you trying to put words into other peoples mouths.

You made no points about R&D, I asked you twice about your proof of principle solution and can find no comments by you referring to them, you are being extremely cheeky accusing me of ignoring things.

At the risk of repeating myself, I'm getting deja vu here: there is no forced binary choice to be made between living as luddites, and ignoring the cost of nuclear reactors for nature and future generations. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Maybe they're hoping that someone can explain what this person was thinking?

I doubt it, but I guess it's at least possible that someone here works with the criminally insane.
Any idea if it's backward-compatible with the Wii?
Grad School - Science or Engineering?
I'm looking to go to grad school soon, and I'm trying to gather as much data as possible about my options. One interesting question for me has arose: should I pursue a science or engineering based course of study.

This seems to be more of a philosophical decision to make, contingent on my own personality and interests. However I am up in the air about this as I believe I could be happy going either route.

I would love to hear from others who have made a similar decision or have a well-reasoned opinion on the matter.
Dear Ubuntu: The netbook is toast
Are there phones that predate the iphone that are entirely controlled through a large, multi-touch touchscreen?
Sounds like a sound and profitable business plan. I still am kind of surprised those things are not more common in the West were large sums of money are at stake...

Anyone who watches the 'Law and Order' shows knows the police frown on rich white guys who do bad things.

I suspect that _most_ people who are in the position to make big bucks got there by having a moral code that says 'thou shalt not'. A framework for living well that allows one to thrive and be happy.
Building a website that has the potential to gain traction requires understanding how and why your users are going to use your site. Sure he can A/B test it himself, but at this rate, he's going to spend another 3 years figuring it out and by then he will have burned out and lost motivation.

People that want to visit a website that lets you vote on legislative policies and then talk about it, would likely be of above average intelligence. The fact that he has a comment system and nothing but a few "I agree" type posts and submitted it to HN for feedback is a clear sign that he doesn't understand the mechanics of building a website that people want to visit.

I'm not sure why everyone these days thinks they can just throw up a website and people will magically appear and start using it-- it's not that easy!
Just because there is wireless syncing and no need to activate with iTunes doesn't indicate that Jobs meant post-pc to mean "no pc needed". I still think post-pc means after the pc, as both Gartenberg and Gruber suggest.
Yes, it's fully backwards compatible
have you tried PSTN?
You totally missed the point of the article. By putting in a limitation, you are actually making it easier for other person (a good thing, no doubt). And to address your multi-talents, you use different limitations with different people.

My experience is exactly the same as the OP's: if you have little idea of what interests you, I am not eager to make introductions. It cannot be overstated: help people help you.
You can use Facebook lists to only post things to a set of people you want to. Or Facebook groups if you don't even want to be friends with them but want a group communication channel.

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768
Much moreso in a streaming model. In a "download at will" model like iCloud, having more storage certainly makes things more convenient. But, yes, still less relevant, for sure.
Where can you go to look for a UX/UI designer that can help with the usability of your website? Dribble is ok to showcase a nice logo, a nice button etc, but fails for non-cosmetic driven design.
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That's still based on what happened. Apple was declining for a long time. He was surely wrong, and if you sold your stock then you lost because of him. Stock market speculation is already BS because so much is random.

I think "claim chowder" is crap if you don't call it fake in the moment. Going back with the bias of what happened and see who was wrong isn't particularly titillating. Gruber has done a lot of good CC, but this isn't one of them.
- I hate cats - the hair, the smell...
- Oh, you just don't know a good recipe

Same with Dribbble. All good designers have links to their portfolios full of uncropped samples of their work. Most of good designers on Dribbble also have Pro accounts meaning that their "shots" typically have full-size versions attached to them and the shots are organized into the projects.

Nobody is saying that one needs to pick a designer because of that one 400x300 shot that looks awesome. What the OP meant is that Dribbble is a great visual directory of a metric ton of really good designers.
There is a trial version of q (a newer k variant) at the Kx website, and a couple of us are also working on Kona, an ISC-licensed k-like language, at http://github.com/kevinlawler/kona .

The k way of doing things is indeed eye-opening. There is some documentation for Kona on its github wiki page, and Hakan has an extensive set of k resources at http://www.hakank.org/k/.
One suspects that Apple wink at jailbreakers.

They can't encourage them overtly without damaging their relationship with the music and film cartels -- without which they lose the most successful commercial music market on the internet. And the MPAA, RIAA and their members hate the idea of uncontrolled access to machines that host their media. (EDIT: Also, the cellcos presumably don't like the idea of uncontrolled smart devices talking to their base stations ... as witness the periodic crackdowns on un-authorized tethering.)

But on the other hand, jailbreaking isn't impossible. And it ought to be -- if Apple seriously wanted to design a machine that couldn't be jailbroken, then some combination of a trusted platform module with remote activation (which Apple indeed enforce) should be sufficient. (Kernel isn't signed by Apple corporate? Boot loader say bye-bye!)

So my conclusion is that Apple are doing "due diligence" -- enough to propitiate the copyright absolutists, but dragging their heels enough to permit a deniable halo of JB developers to generate new ideas, which can then be bought in-house if they work or disowned if they don't.
Your Saudi example is especially unconvincing. Of course they get their electricity from oil now; why wouldn't they, when oil is so cheap and abundant there? Duh. Oil costs them, what, $10 to extract a barrel now? They would be fools to use anything more expensive to produce electricity. That doesn't mean they won't get their electricity elsewhere when it's economically unfeasible to use oil for that.

More or less the same applies to other examples, actually.

> Ask Transocean when they'll start selling coal-powered semi-subs

Whoa, where did that come from? Shelf drilling is a capital expense, it's not recurring costs. Whatever logic is there in EROEI argument, it doesn't apply here. Ask Transocean what share of their operating costs is fuel, and if they give a damn about fuel costs rising ten-fold.
Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for very long periods of time’
All that hardware and I worry about the weight. The ipad is tiring to hold up in your hands long term, if that thing has any sort of battery life, it would be fairly tiring to hold up too.
That's your persuasive counterargument? "That theory sucks"? I don't deny the standard case is controversial (which is also, BTW, not the same as "lacking in any evidence"; there's plenty of evidence, it's just that what it means is still debated), when discussing deflation spirals of a relatively small size, but when you're talking about a currency that will deflate by orders of magnitude, and that necessarily must do so if it going to be any sort of successful, I think you need more than "Ha ha ha! I laugh in the face of your argument!" I do not know of a real world parallel of such a thing, and when it comes to systems this complicated the presumption by any sane systems engineer is that your new proposal won't work. I for one am not going to take it as axiomatic that BitCoin is inevitably going to work and the burden of proof is on those who think it won't work (another psychologically tempting position). Quite the opposite.

You claim to have done your homework... have you considered actually sharing it with us? Or are derisive italics all you really have?
I'm not saying it's a correct view of reality or even in the best long term interests of their country. I'm just saying that lingering ideology, along with some paranoid nationalism thrown in is where they get their intellectual "cover" among their peers from.
I think the answer in a post-FB/Twitter decentralized/distributed social network world is to have transient, easily spun-up and spun-down social networks that you could think of as places.

So, for work friends, I'd make (or join) a social network called WorkBuddies, and I'd have a different one for each context. But you'd take your identity with you, and you'd own your own canonical social graph independent of the people in each network.
Put yourself in the investors shoes. How would you like to be treated if you were the investor?

Right so disclose it.

If you don't want to make a big deal out of it, just "over-disclose" EVERYTHING that takes time away from your Primary start-up.

Are you a meet-up group organizer, speaker at conferences, contributor/maintainer to open source libraries, responsible for your cousins online shoe-repair website, coach a little league team, are in the national reserve, planning a wedding, etc
Amazing Photos of Recent Puyehue Volcano's Eruption
Another opposite extreme is an OOP language which has no methods. And instead each "method" is really just a data variable which is a closure, making it behave nearly identically to a real method. You could avoid needing these "methods" defined for every instance by simulating inheritance using lexical scoping from a parent class.

Although you would need to provide dynamic scope or pass the first argument as self for it to truly behave like a normal method.

The simplicity of this model is appealing to me but I do not know if any existing languages use it?
Colin,

I just did a search for the Professors name, Albert Bartlett, and found the following thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382456

No, I did not check if this was posted before. However, these videos do such a fantastic job of explaining exponential growth and how such growth applies to our every-day lives I felt that I had to share them, even if they have been posted before.

I wish I saw this lecture while I was in school, the connection to real-life would have made the theory so much easier to grasp. Heck, I wish all of my teachers were like Dr. Bartlett, but that's not possible.

I'm really glad to have found this lecture and I wanted to share it with others who may not have been aware of it.
Remote Control Your Volvo via New iPhone/Android Device App
of course man :)
it's the catch-22 of taking something complicated and making it feel simple. the people that don't know what goes on under the hood will never understand what it took to make it feel like butter.
IIRC, Android sort of does what iCloud does, but iCloud is very different and IMHO a much better offering from a developer perspective. According to Apple's website:

iCloud Storage APIs enable your apps to store documents and key value data in iCloud. iCloud will wirelessly push documents to a user's device automatically and update the documents when changed on any device — automatically.

iCloud allows an app developer to treat the cloud as a natural extension of the iOS device. In-cloud storage is almost as easy to use as saving data locally, and you get push synchronization for free.

This is similar to Dropbox, but baked right into the system APIs. I don't think there is anything like this in Android. You of course can hack something using Google Storage API or Amazon S3, but they are very different beasts from iCloud: while iCloud associate the storage with a user, Google and Amazon associate it with an app. That difference has a huge implication. iCloud makes it trivially easy to synchronize data for one app across devices of the same user. To achieve the same thing with Google and Amazon's offerings, you would have to provide your own code to identify user, isolate data of different users in the cloud, and bring in your own synchronization/push magic. On the other hand, if you want to mine across data of all users - answering questions like the most-bookmarked pages - then you might feel iCloud's extra layer of abstraction getting into your way.
The truth of the matter is that Dribbble has the best designers out there. And yes, that includes great user experience designers (http://dribbble.com/rogie), and even great front-end coders (http://dribbble.com/simurai).

I think a lot of people mistakenly assume that a "user experience designer" has to create ugly mockups and clumsy prototypes. The best user experience designers are just designers that do their job well.
Thanks for explaining my own point better than I could!
Handling big data with probabilistic data structures.  PyCon 2011. (video)
Sorry if this is obvious, by why are you restricted to IE? I believe you, I just don't understand why.
Anyone else feel that these quotes have been cherry-picked to support 37 signals business philosophy?
agreed. I did the very first implementation of one of the things everyone was cheering about, all the way back in 2008. I certainly don't feel robbed; if anything I'm pleased to see they did what I thought was obvious when the first iphone came out and their product will be better for it. Consumer win.
I don't even know whats happening.

http://backbonetutorials.com
No Replacements for MobileMe Apps: Has Apple Completely Given Up on Web Apps?
This quote rings true:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2813-do-you-want-to-sell-suga...
Agreed. Lock-in is the real win for Apple here.
Or use an email client with a horizontally split screen.
I love Jobs' advice to Nike's CEO: "Nike makes some of the best products in the world. Products that you lust after. But you also make a lot of crap. Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff."
Yeah. That is the most baffling part of this wholly baffling post. Unless you conflate "plastic" with "credit cards" and count the ability to retract a payment as a security feature, which is confusing, if not dishonest.
I was having the same symptoms on my HTC Dream on Rogers, I wonder if the root problem was the same. Enabling only 2G networks stopped the issue at the cost of paying full price for crippled data.

After fighting with Rogers and 2 phone replacements on warranty and no co-operation to reasonably upgrade to a different phone I gave up and purchased an unlocked used iphone - it works without issue.

Personally I like the Android OS and UI better but I need my phone to not randomly stop being a phone.
> russian way of doing "business"

or maybe it is slavic way of doing business? or maybe it is just a consequence of collapse of old institutions and social structure combined with some cultural aspects?

just sayin.

(russian here, living in Estonia and not complaining, btw)
I thought that, but then this will presumably be all plastic, like current Wii/DS hardware. If so it'd be significantly lighter.
I don't understand the distinctions you're drawing at all. HTTP "used to be the destination"? What does that mean? It sounds false on its face. The page, image or other resource was always the destination — HTTP was just the protocol used for the transfer. And "content was pushed … using HTTP," but later HTTP was used "as an underlying transport"? Wouldn't the fact that content was pushed using HTTP make it the underlying transport for that content? This all sounds like "I used to have six, now I have half a dozen."
Find My Mac Gets Real on Lion, Lets You Remote Wipe & Lock
I have nothing against Stallman as a hacker, or his goals with the FSF. I use the gnu toolchain daily, and run Fedora on my old laptop. I have nothing but respect for what he did in the 80s and 90s with GNU/Linux. That said, I do have a problem with how he presents his case, and the silly rebrandings of any non-free devices. It's germane to this discussion because of the EFF's rebranding of the PROTECT IP Act, which although similar in nature comes across much better than any of the FSF's rebrandings. I think it's disingenuous to call them jokes, as they really don't come across that way.
Seriously, UNIX guys have had this for decades. Ever heard of keeping your user directory and profile on the network server. So when you walk around the office and log into different machines your HOME "travels" with you.

The network server now just lives on a server outside your organization/home what ever. The network speed now becomes the biggest limitation, and there are valid concerns with security as well.
> In the event that the customer accidentally loses their seed database, it would be a very costly operation to replace all the SecurID hardware tokens.

It'd be a very profitable operation for RSA, so I doubt this explanation.
The failure of MobileMe strongly suggests the former. If Apple didn't care about the Web, they could have not made a product in that area just like they do with all the other things they don't care about.
Interesting - I didn't know that those worlds mixed. :) BTW, I wasn't trying to imply that nginx was directly replacing IIS. I interpreted it to mean that sites running nginx are breaking into the top million at a faster rate and sites running IIS are dropping out at a faster rate.
Although I'm not a tattoo fan, I think that's a beautiful commitment.
Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period
"Yeah, that iPad thing was no big deal."

Since when was the iPad a cellphone? He said right up front "Apple's innovation in the mobile sphere"...
Given RSA's reluctance to come clean on this, I don't think anyone's going to trust "oh, but your SecureID wasn't compromised" from them.
Regarding Apache Traffic Server, here are some benchmarks:
http://www.ogre.com/node/391
ok so someone explain this to me. this device negates the need for a Wii? or is an extension for the wii? so are they updating the graphics on the wii? Sorry I'm slightly confused by this (and i've been gaming for 20 years+)

How does this connect to a tv?
Multithreading -- Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
CSS 2.1 becomes a W3C Recommendation
It was a tough decision whether or not to sell Intrinsa to Microsoft back in 1999. I was the only one of the founders still at the company at the time, and the board was split. In retrospect, it couldn't have worked out any better. Combining our PREfix team with some really good people from Microsoft Research moved the technology forward a lot faster than we would have otherwise -- and tech transferring the stripped-down version of PREfast into Visual Studio put it in the hands of a lot of users across the world. At the same time, we found a good way to support our existing UNIX customers; and as expected, once we had validated the market segment, other competitors emerged, and Coverity has now taken things way farther than we ever did. From a career perspective, it worked out well for me and the others involved.

One of the key things we did before deciding to sell was look a lot at the political environment we were getting into. An acquisition's success depends a lot on its champions' political fortunes and how the "not invented here" antibodies get dealt with. Also, we were working with some great people who we clicked well with. And the problem we were addressing was very strategic to the company, so we got a lot of attention. So these are all things I'd consider in any future acquisition situations.
"They had enough spare bytes to not have to pull that trick"

Hogwash. When you're writing an interepter for a low-specced system you have no truly spare bytes, because every one you take is one that programs running on your interpreter cannot have.
I watched it live. Once the controller was confirmed I immediately thought about a feature Microsoft did in Vista called SideShow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
leaves on the dashboard encourage more eco-friendly driving?

do they wilt when you accelerate too hard?
FaceCash Wallet First to Support NFC and Barcodes
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