skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I just had a vary surreal moment reading about this.

I started from http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/20/fake-apple-stores-mush... which at least link’s to it’s source. And says: "pictures of what looks like an Apple store but is in reality a completely genuine rip-off; the author of the post also confirms that the store was torn down and replaced by a bank" vs. what was actually said: "we went back to this store 5 days later and couldn’t find it, having overshot by two blocks, I seriously thought that it had simply been torn down and replaced with a bank in the meantime – hey, it’s China. That could happen."

So the Blog spam is a poor knockoff of a blog of about a knockoff store selling knockoff's of a real company's products. Yet the blog spam is still concerned enough about being copied that it’s using java script to prevent people copy pasting their text. Does that mean the knockoff story is also trying to keep people from copying them? And could someone be trying to reverse engineer a device sold in that store?

PS: Now concider for a moment where in the chain of fake this comment sit's.
Backblaze should really consider selling their pods - it would basically free money for them because whatever inventory they don't sell they can use for their service, and I'm sure there's lots of businesses that would pay good money for a cheaper alternative to storage servers from Dell or HP.
"...which I'm guessing can be checked relatively easily (add up what the major suppliers claim to be shipping - HTC, Samsung, B&N - if you can't get in the ball park then something might be up)."

I would like to know the numbers too but I think it's not that easy to determine or else someone would have done it by now. It seems the only reference there is to the number of Android devices is when Google mentions it during earnings or @arubin tweets it. No hard numbers exist anywhere.
Newbie vs. Neophyte
Space constraints or not, the 4GB limitation is annoying. I'm using a two month old 13" MBA, which will go to replace the wife's 2007 white MacBook once I get to the Apple Store, and the dashed hope of getting 8GB has dampened my enthusiasm. But not cancelled it completely ;)
Microsoft Creates A Video To Celebrate Linux’s 20th Birthday
OS X has always had its own window management protocols, different from full-screen alt-tab but arguably just as good. In Leopard it was all-windows-Expose, activated via mouse flicks to the screen hotcorners. It was great, really natural.

Unfortunately they crippled the feature in Snow Leapard (grid based rather than spatial layout) and did away with it entirely in Lion in favor of Mission Control.
This is a really easy sell... There is no demeaning 4th-Amendment-violating security-theater "screening" to submit to. This means that they'll have to fly into smaller airports, which (often) means you're closer to your endpoints, with no parking hassles, easy dropoff/pickup, etc.

They will likely be flying small propeller planes, which many people prefer...

I also like that they are trying to bootstrap into a functioning business ASAP without having to wait for big money and big arrangements to coalesce, and that they plan to launch in a month. Very make-it-happen Done-Manifesto-like.

I would love for it to work, and I see this business model as inevitable given the simmering backlash against TSA and cattle-car airlines. It reminds me a bit of independence, liberty, and freedom, all of which have an ongoing struggle against oppressive polypragmonocracy.
I don't see 4.1 download available yet.
"Most systems can handle 1K-10K threads efficiently. If you need more connections than that, buy another server, a cheap one cost about $500."

Terrible advice. Use NIO and do it properly. Creating 1 thread per connection is for unskilled programmers.

In my experience once you get up to about 1k threads in Java you'll be wasting most of the CPU up switching between them.

For comparison, it's trivial for any skilled programmer to use NIO to get up 100k+ connections without any real CPU usage.
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Just built-in, and no external mouse or keyboard either. I want my working environment to be the same regardless of whether I'm at the office or in an airplane
I have a github account for my personal code, and we host a gitorious server internally at work for proprietary stuff. Having used both they are interchangeable on the mechanical level (duh) but the user experience for me on github is far better. In addition the extra tools are richer, such as network/commit graphs, issue tracker, wiki, etc. I won't touch upon the social aspects of github since I'm a digital hermit.
That's a good question, but unfortunately I'm not privy to Apple's internal workings to give you an accurate answer. The general metric seems to be "Does it add value to the core product?" This is the same reason iOS updates are free to the iPhone but not to the iPod Touch — the iPhone is viewed as a multi-year investment (and reflected as such in Apple's accounting), while the iPod Touch is a shrinkwrap product that Apple doesn't believe it can add value to without charging for it.

But the precise bar for when they feel like they need to charge is something only Apple could tell you, and maybe not even them. Like I said, their interpretation of the law is idiosyncratic.
How to build a Lean product and UX (with examples)
I heard on Bloomberg that Angry Birds is looking at a movie deal. Not sure what kind of movie it would be so there is one company looking in to it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/72169010/
The theory is iTunes facilitates the buying of items from the iTunes Store.
I'm not sure who's down-voting you, but your answer is correct. It is indeed the recovery partition. It includes a compressed lion system tree with Safari.
Very good points, upvoted. Not to nit-pick, but much isn't much of the PBS library already available free online?

Also, HBO seems to have an interesting strategy. http://www.hbogo.com is only available to cable subscribers right now, but one gets the feeling that this is an attempt to bring more viewers online so that, eventually, they will no longer need to rely on the cable monopolies. In my opinion, none of this can happen too soon.
I am currently on snapshot 59 as well. It is stable in the way that it crashes ~ every 10 mintues.
I would mirror my rsnapshot backups to Backblaze if they had Linux support.
Trying to figure out what the original author of Mork was thinking I found https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mork_What_Is_It

Looks like David McCusker is the original author and it was only supposed to be a temporary solution that lasted until 2009.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050315212725/http://erys.org/re... explains mork being an abstraction layer on top of MDB.

Also http://web.archive.org/web/20050324235032/http://erys.org/re... for some general info linked from the mozilla.org link.
The pragmatist in me realizes I don't need a core i7 to edit text files and run unicorn_rails in the background...but the geek in me punched the pragmatist in the face and said "yes you do".
The apps I spend the most time in, Firefox and Emacs, have ways for me to make them cover all the pixels except the menu bar at the top and the Dock at the bottom. In Firefox it is a simple as hitting the maximize ("+", green) button -- and once you do, Firefox remembers your preference next time it opens a new window.
No. I'd be ecstatic that the pencil is now free.
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I'd just take the free pencil... and use it when my current pencil runs out. What would you do with an extra copy of Xcode?
Yeah. The new Macbook Pro can obviously drive two displays in daisy-chain off a single TB port... does the Air not do it? Can it only run one?
I have a current gen MBP with a core i7 and I don't really hear the fans that often, and I'm usually running a lot of stuff at once.
it should not: "your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example ".
I know apple is deceiving, but I can't guess how they would install a recovery partition a new "drive without osx".
1. I don't need private repos yet, so GitHub is free for me.

2. If I do need private repos, I can afford GitHub.

3. GitHub has better UX and design, and its design sense has been contagious to its users. I think part of the reason people make their code/docs super-presentable on GitHub is to fit in with the look and feel of the site, but that's pure speculation and could be wrong.

4. My main use case is code discovery, not project hosting. GitHub got there first in building a community, so there's more to discover - in addition to it usually being easier to look at as per (3).
It is not. The page states it works with a blank drive. It is built into the EFI firmware.
This is very cool. I really like the effort Mozilla has been putting into showing people what can be done with modern web technologies recently. They've got a whole bunch of other cool demos at demos.mozilla.org
I am pretty sure you misunderstood grandparent's question.
Isn't the Intel HD 3000 a downgrade from the previous-gen MBA's Nvidia GeForce 320?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0....
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...
A lot of people DO mind TSA security-theater rights-violating screening, and will go out of their way and pay notably more to avoid it. Many of us have stopped flying altogether for lack of a TSA-free option. Demand for alternatives is there, the capabilities are there, just need someone to work out the logistics.
The google+ iphone app is very well done. I have heard third hand that google spends a lot of time writing low level interaction code (re-writing swipe gestures to be 20% faster, etc...) solely for cocoa. I am not sure of the truth of that, but this app is much better put together than most and really shines as a new release. The other google iphone app also has some really unique and thoughtful features (the help immediately comes to mind).

I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with an ipad app soon and that it was at worst, decent.
Just to note, i never bought the xcode 4 package from the app store. After I purchased snow leopard the price changed from $4.99 to free.

So while the base os install doesn't have it, it appears as though the naysayers were wrong about them charging for the dev tools. Although I have to go home and update to Lion to be able to download it, it won't let me snag it on my 10.6 system.

Just thought i'd throw that out into the wind so people don't think they need to have both bought. Though $5 is pretty miniscule imo.
"And, with the exception of nethack, there aren't many ways to waste a lot of time at the console."

Clearly, Matt has not yet fully learned the Unix lifestyle!
Agreed. There is purposeful ambiguity going on whenever 'activations' are mentioned.
I don't know, but I believe it- Fry's has an ad out now for 16GB for $100 (after $50 mail-in-rebate).

Sure you might want ECC, or a brand name, but the floor is pretty damn low.
My monitoring app has its own CLI. Does yours?
Zabcon is a command-line interpreter for the Zabbix API. It provides the user a way to execute simple, ad-hoc commands on the Zabbix Server and get the results back. It’s a great, great thing.
From the article: "The new port is backward compatible so it can still be used to connect to DisplayPort devices; however, only the new port can be used to connect to Thunderbolt devices."
I researched it quite a bit when first looking at what's out there and I think if you look at it closely you'll definitely see a lot of ruby red in there. However I think you're right that it's not a fair statement, so I just took that part out.
Win! Spoke to Apple, they are going to refund and take away my 16 day old MacBook Air so that I can order the new one :) Excellent customer service once again.
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...5 lottery tickets could also make you a millionaire.
How America just lost 1 million green(ish) jobs to Europe
I've had a terrible time installing things like lxml and PIL due to problems with GCC and/or caused by installing Xcode 4.x. Shouldn't this kind of stuff be pretty reliable?
MongoDB is not by any stretch of the imagination a graph database.
Search Google for "Founder AndroidWorks consulting" and you'll see the HN posts.
I don't have any expertise in astrophysics (just physics), but I am pretty sure that white dwarfs aren't nearly strong enough to produce observable lensing. You need black holes or whole galaxies for that. Further, these stars are separated by less than the earth-moon distance, so they aren't individually resolvable. The fact that it is a binary system has been inferred from periodicities in it's brightness and spectrum. ("Astronomers measured the stars' relative motions by looking at the light signatures, or spectra, coming from the stars as they eclipse each other.")

I think your guess is right that all the data about the gravitational waves will be taken from the orbital decay. This is actually a decent amount of data since the rate of decay isn't constant, and because the eclipse maneuver isn't a smooth process.
NVDA Cum Laude-ing Stanford a CUDA Center of Excellence
> > Please don't write your own object pools, this isn't 1995.
> The snark was unnecessary. It is frowned upon here.

Plus he's wrong, especially for all the people writing GUI applications who want to avoid GC pauses (for Dalvik, not the JVM, but still).
Idd, I was thinking the same, they want to make it look like they do a really "scientific" test -- but I don't think you can conclude anything with these tasks.
"BTW, our balloon just missed a JetBlue aircraft while on its way to near-space. (It was still safe as we notified nearby airports of our launch)."

Does that statement scare the bejesus out of anyone else?
Edit: found a fix, if quitting iTunes isn't enough for the installer, you need to launch the Activity Monitor and manually kill the "iTunes Helper" process. What a pain.

This seems extremely half-baked. The App Store doesn't install Xcode, it just downloads an installer for Xcode, and ever-so-helpfully places it in LaunchPad.

After launching the installer and letting it run for many minutes, it silently popped up a window requesting that I quit iTunes for the installation to proceed. Besides being an insane request, when I do quit iTunes nothing happens. And if I double click on the iTunes name it launches iTunes. And on top of that, this request window isn't associated with the installer app, so I wouldn't even know it has anything to do with Xcode unless I'm not doing anything else on my computer.

And to top it all off, the installer has disabled all its buttons, so there's no clean way to quit it, and no way to get it to check for iTunes again.

This is about the lowest quality that I've ever seen Apple achieve; I hope that the rest of the dev chain gets more love.
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Yes, the RAM is ECC. Here is a link: http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT25672B...

The ECC RAM absolutely does find and corrects problems (we see them in the logs). However, just to be absolutely clear we would not need ECC RAM -> Backblaze checksums EVERYTHING on an end-to-end basis (mostly we use SHA-1). This is so important I cannot stress this highly enough, each and every file and portion of file we store has our own checksum on the end, and we use this all over the place. For example, we pass over the data every week or so reading it, recalculating the checksums, and if a single bit has been thrown we heal it up either from our own copies of the data or ask the client to re-transmit that file or part of that file.

At the large amount of data we store, our checksums catch errors at EVERY level - RAM, hard drive, network transmission, everywhere. I suppose consumers just do not notice when a single bit in one of their JPEG photos has been flipped -> one pixel gets every so slightly more red or something. Only one photo changes out of their collection of thousands. But at our crazy numbers of files stored we see it (and fix it) daily.
Lot's of info in John Siracusa's exhaustive review on page 2:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
Got it working. Short answer, Intel igfx cards (aka, "work laptops") are garbage. Chrome WebGL worked, Firefox didn't. I got it working, albeit slowly, using OSMesa on Ubuntu.

Marketing department power!

Hope that helps someone.
Sending an Email with Brain Activity - Please Watch the Video
Find all details about the project from the description section on the youtube video. Please Click on the like button if you like this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fZER3ykaJs&feature=youtu.be&a
I'm unclear about how they are spiraling towards each other at 370 mi/s, just 1/3 the Earth-Moon distance apart, yet will take 900,000 years to merge. Can anyone clarify that?
Next steps:
1. Ban the adults who drink too much.
2. Ban people who talk loudly in cell phones.
3. Ban teenagers who are partying with friends.
4. Ban the that woman over there. She's laughing a little loudly for my sensitive ears.
5. Oh, and could you please ban that other guy over there too. His facial hair is ruining my dining experience.

M'Kay. Thanks.
As a linux user I wouldn't mind having to edit files by hand.

XML is a pain, but holding up release due to lack of a gui is sorta silly. Plus I imagine, like me, most multi-server users would be rolling out a standard xml config anyway without more than a simple string substitution on a per server basis.

In fact, the only GUI I have running is on my desktop.
Again, thanks for the input! I've changed the site to emphasize that point about Underscore.js (as you suggested), and also added a page explaining more about (not) patching Object.prototype. Still don't want to add docs for "enableSugar"... not sure yet that's the direction I want... may remove it later.
Yes. It's becoming less exotic in the HPC world, but still greatly lags in popularity compared the languages community world.
Skype Architecture : Research papers and other materials
It'd be a major distraction, though. Setting up a separate support/services organization for that is not trivial.

Also, most businesses buy from the Dells or the HPs because they don't have the in-house expertise to manage a more bare-bones box (or more likely just don't want to). The companies that have the need/capability to manage more raw storage could just take the plans and build them out anyways I would imagine.
TextMate is getting ready for Lion
When I used Windows on a multi-monitor setup I never found myself wishing, "if only I had a taskbar on each monitor." (Similarly, I've never wished for multiple docks on OSX.) So YMMV.
The "please quit iTunes" thing happened to me with Xcode 4.0 on 10.6 as well. Pretty ridiculous.
Ah, thank you for calling my attention to that. I had somehow read it to mean "If your boot partition is hosed."
Google looking at InterDigital after patent bid loss
They aren't moving directly toward each other at that rate; they are orbiting each other at that rate, and very gradually moving closer.
You are not the only one that stated that ... many, including myself are on that same list.
No issues. Your version of Lion is identical to the one people are downloading from the App Store. It'll run this XCode version normally.
Its amazing that there has been proven fact that alternative resources can produce so much more energy for so much less money and yet our government sits ere and listens to the oil giants.
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U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers - moving everything into "the cloud"
You're right -- I was just using Mongo as an example to show that people are moving away from the relational database as the primary datastore, esp for Web stuff.
Dumb luck, as in winning the lottery? Not really. What did Ben Kenobi say to Han Solo about luck?

Subtle chains of cause and effect were at play among people involved, going back years to Silicon Graphics (Netscape drew from UIUC and SGI, plus montulli from Kansas, and jwz). Also going back through the living history of programming languages. SICP and some of the Sussman & Steele "Lambda the ..." papers made a big impression on me years before, although I did not understand their full meaning then.

Remember, I was recruited to "do Scheme", which felt like bait and switch in light of the Java deal brewing by the time I joined Netscape. My interest in languages such as Self informed a subversive agenda re: the dumbed down mission to make "Java's kid brother", to have objects without classes. Likewise with first-class functions, which were inspired by Scheme but quite different in JS, especially JS 1.0.

Apart from the "look like Java" mandate, and "object-based" as a talking point, I had little direction. Only a couple of top people at Netscape and Sun really grokked the benefit of a dynamic language for tying together components, but they were top people (marca, Rick Schell [VP Eng Netscape], Bill Joy).

Rather than dumb luck, I think a more meaningful interpretation is that I was a piece of an evolving system, exploring one particular path in a damn hurry. That system contains people playing crucial parts. Academic, business, and personal philosophical and friendship agendas all transmitted an analogue of genes: ideas and concrete inventions from functional programming and Smalltalk-related languages.

You might think "it's still luck, it could have been Forth, or TCL". Not likely. There were not years or even months to spare. I had hacked language implementations for fun since I was an undergrad, and for SGI's packet sniffing tools earlier my career. I was a C/Unix fanboy, I knew the C grammar by heart. Independent of me, the "Make it look like Java" order was not just lucky, it was congruent as a consequent, even predictable, given the rise of C in the '80s and C++ in the '90s, and the direct influence of C++ on Java.

My point is simple: the likelihood of any other language syntax than C (C++ -> Java, but really: C) was low. The likelihood of something without "objects" was also low. Netscape recruited me in part because I could hack quickly, and in part because I had some language implementation chops (not enough, in hindsight). I was "that guy", not in any brag-worthy sense, just the only person who was in the position to do the deed, with (barely) enough skills to pull it off.

Many hackers could have done a better job with more time, or perhaps a better job had they been in my shoes. Who knows? But no one at Netscape could have, and the opportunity was there and then.

The path dependence part is spot on. Netscape's business plan for 1.0 was getting out in six months or someone else would kill Mosaic and take over. The entire platform push in 1.1 (plugins) and 2 (frames, JS) was about getting on first. We knew Microsoft was coming, because Netscape had rejected a low-ball offer from them in late '94.
That's the standard recovery partition, but you'll still need a working hard drive to boot from that.

Internet Recovery doesn't even require a working hard drive, so it's an entirely different system.