skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real reason for the PR like speak is what he says in the blog post. They don't want to end up with the WinFS like fiasco where they over promised but under delivered.

MS is still ridiculed about WinFS.

Wait for the engineering blogs to actually start. They will have the real meat like the Windows 7 engineering blogs did.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/

Is there something like this for OS X or Chrome OS ?
San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foil Protest; Legal Debate Ignites
actually, this does have two very important pieces of information:

1. an actual competitor going on record saying whey they are insolvent (and i did that interview myself!)

2. the quote from an investor who think the IPO might get pulled. (i got that quote this weekend from someone deep in the industry).
I think this would be great. What would you need to turn a 'possibly' into a 'yes'?
I lol'd. Thank you.
"As late as 2007, Wall Street exchanges were still largely run on Unix, such as HP's AIX and Sun Microsystems' Solaris."

Isn't AIX developed by IBM? HP maintains HP-UX if I'm not mistaken.
This is what bothers me as well. Its one thing to be some 'wanna be' player who is struggling for market share, its quite another to be the gorilla in the market and to pull stunts like this.

I suspect that they do it because they can do it, and frankly I hope the whole "design patents" issue goes the same way the "look and feel" lawsuits went in the 90's, which is to say "Its not exactly the same, deal with it."
Well yeah that's the whole point of vertical integration. To create one or just a few very polished "sought after" devices. In horizontal integration you have many phones, some might be sought after more than others, but the user-base is distributed along all devices. Both models can work well as seen with the success of iOS and Android.
Base price of a Veyron is 1.7 million dollars.

Lamborghini Murcielago, 2010, premiered at $400,000 to $600,000.

However, when people are talking about a million dollar car they're most likely remembering the McLaren F1 which sold for $970,000 back in 1998.
Twitter API adds photo upload method
How do you catch atoms? In very tiny traps
Motivation: Freedom
The headline seems misleading, and tilted towards iphone.

"cheap" and "pessimist" both have negative connotation.

And "cheap" is actually worded "prefer saving their money", which doesn't seem as bad.

What about

Android: "18% more likely to have equally strong mathematical and verbal aptitude"
"36% more likely to not remember their last vacation"

iPhone: "11% more likely to have a stronger verbal aptitude"
"15% more likely to have vacationed in the last six months"

How about: "Androids are for hard-working math-savvy people, iPhones are for innumerate lazy people"

I do not own a smart phone.
Responsibility in general is a great thing to instill in a kid. I got a pellet gun when I was young for a gift, I always knew my dad had a shotgun and hunting rifle and even shot them a number of times before my double-digit years. It never occurred to me to shoot someone, though, even if I was mad. I was taught firmly that violence was Wrong, had many surrounding influences reinforcing that, and I'm glad for it.

Some people shouldn't be parents. Can one as an outsider correct poor behavior in children without destroying the family that should never have been? Is it easier to correct poor parents? Even these types of stories of out of control kids discourage me, let alone the stories about child soldiers...
"We'll share profits with employees that actually worked on the product we sold"
Well, pretty much the same here. We ran linux on xfires until recently because we loved the hardware, but wouldn't touch solaris with a 10ft pole.

I'm skeptical DTrace and ZFS can justify the risk to invest in a niche platform. Personally I'm holding out for the linux alternatives (btrfs, ceph) to mature.
>Samsung logo removed.

Did they? A quick browse through Google image search shows lots of Tab 10.1 pictures, many with a Samsung logo and many without (here for example: http://popherald.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-honeycomb-release-da...).

Most of the pics without a logo seem to be pre-release marketing photos. I wonder if the Apple submittal grabbed a marketing photo someplace. We shall soon see.
Also, from my understanding it's unlikely they'll bring development in-house, at least not in the next few years.
The article reads like a PR plant. Sorry but besides being a bit link-baitey it says "Nobody I want to follow uses G+ much." Fair enough but not really Eulogy worthy.
Original document here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61993811/10-08-04-Apple-Motion-for...

Gruber claims that "The dispute here is over one image" [1], but I don't think that's accurate. Almost all of the images in the document have been squeezed in manners that make the devices look more similar.

- Many of the images are taken at an extreme angle which, while looking very nice, doesn't let you get a good look at the device (e.g. pp. 26, 32, 38)

- They play pretty free and loose with distorting the aspect ratios of their images. See a decidedly square-looking Tab on pp. 26, 35 and a freakishly elongated iPad on pp. 27, 36.

- pp. 39 takes the cake for "how can we fudge things to make it look like they're the same size"

In fact, far from being "over one image", it seems that the majority of the images have has their aspect ratios distorted in order to make the devices seem more similar, and the remainder have been shot at angles that deliberately hide dissimilarities.

I would argue that the aspect ratio of the Tab is one of its most distinctive features (I don't like it, but it is distinctive...). It's the first thing you notice when you pick one up. Not surprising that Apple is trying to downplay this difference.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/15/apple-samsung-im...
Med students fall into the rich category as the bar. Try doing specialized medical fields, microbiology, psychology?, child care, etc. Go for the long tail
Yes, please! I can def fly from Italy if it's planned
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Yeah, me too. A Wikipedia for articles about things that happened after the Web was invented. Imagine that!
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- Noah Everett (@noaheverett)

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Thank you for the personal perspective. I make the assumption that by sole proprietor you have it structured as an LLC? This seems by my research to be the best general way to create a simple business entity.
I put this together a few years ago with some similar insights... http://antiprocrastinator.com/
Is this related to Bootup Labs?
Mos' def one to watch. Bud.ge is going to be fun to see.
I can't help feeling that BART can't really get anything right. Surly employees, unusually bad BART cops, smelly trains that run extremely slowly at random intervals, and now interfering with a protest.

What I don't understand is why they have any interest in hampering the protest in the first place. Until the protest has been shown to be violent, how is it even conceivably within their legitimate sphere of influence to interfere with it? Particularly when it interferes with the service that regular riders have come to expect.
The thing I don't understand about this deal is if the patents are as valuable as Google claims why did they only pay (effectively) $9B for them? Motorola hasn't really been on the bleeding edge of cellular technology for about a decade. Going back to 2003 (at least) they've been using Qualcomm radios for example. In more modern times they are assembling someone else's radio, GPU and running someone else's OS. I'm sure they do have some valuable IP but given the low sale price I'm thinking it's getting seriously overstated. In a $150B/year SmartPhone industry that continues to grow how are these super valuable patents only worth $9B?
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By "disagrees with you" I mean one can find more examples of you complaining about it happening than of it actually happening.

Even CamperBob's comment is (in context) referring to commenters on sites like InformationWeek. Even if we generously interpret it as meaning what you say, the idea that it "happens all the time on HN" is a stretch.
i think this will be accretive as $39bn of cash was just sitting there collecting minimal interest and motorola is moderately profitable.

google has a strong management team with a pretty successful bolt-on acquisition history. even though this is one of their largest acquisitions, i have faith in the management team to either sell off the hardware component of the business, or otherwise somehow make this transaction a success.
H tried using find, but, in this case, the libc readdir function was the bottleneck, so find doesn't help.

Often, when ls is being slow, you can speed things up drastically by disabling the things that require a stat (colors, -F, etc.) that are often added by distro's shell files (invoking ls with a full path is an easy way to disable shell aliases.) Also, sorting is on by default, which slows things for obvious reasons.

When all you need to do is kill the stat overhead for small dirs on slow file systems, "echo *" is beautifully simple.
Essex police charge man over water fight planned on BlackBerry Messenger
Actually 'find' will also stat each entry no matter what.

Many of the standard-tools that most people would intuitively expect to be rather optimized (find, rsync, gzip) are embarrassingly inefficient under the hood and turn belly up when confronted with data of any significant size.

That probably stems from the fact that most of the development on these tools took place during a time when 1GB harddrives were "huge" and SMP was "high end".
This book is free online and is a pretty good intro:
http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
just got my letter today - August 15 2011.
Would like more info - carloswigs@gmail.com
Best Places to Live 2011 - Top 100
Thanks Colin. I loved this article, but apparently detecting a duplicate is too computational complex for HN.
Bottlenecks in the brain limit our ability to multitask
That doesnt mean that linking in a GPL module doesnt make the rest of the kernel GPL. A real ABI might not mean it is not linked. Allowing commercial modules and linking with GPL ones are not the same.

I dont know though, the definition of linking is pretty opaque to me.
Measuring support for independence
It's also not on the box:

http://techcitement.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Box...

Edit:

It also does not appear on their website:
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab/GT-P7510MAYXAB

Unrelated but sort of funny in that context, they seem to photoshop iOS screenshots onto Galaxy devices (scroll down where they show the maps feature)

http://www.samsung.com/galaxyplayer50/
> I think Django should make this official.

Good call - I just did. There's a "download" link in the sidebar now.
The article discusses a bottleneck in readdir(), not stat(). Running your command has the same problem as running ls:

open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
fcntl(5, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
fchdir(5) = 0
getdents(5, /* 2 entries */, 32768) = 48
getdents(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
close(5) = 0

It's only reading 32k at a time, but the author had 500MB of data to be fetched.
The pellet gun is not the problem. The child is the problem. Take the pellet gun away and he'll stab his victims with scissors. Take the scissors away and he'll beat his victims with a ball bat.

The tool (pellet gun) is not the problem. Stop blaming the tool. Blame the attacker. The kid will probably grow up and sling sulfuric acid on his girl friends face. When he does that, will that be the acid's fault, or the shopkeeper who sold the acid, or the company that manufactured the acid... no it'll be the attacker's fault.

I have a pellet gun and kids. They all use it responsibly and enjoy doing so. They would never shoot someone with it or threaten anyone... they know better.
> I'm not trying to be pedantic. The tax code is a mess. Simply saying you'd raise taxes on folks making more than a million of taxable income a year doesn't really say very much.

It's saying a huge amount. The Republican position is that tax increases are COMPLETELY off the table (and they are defining closing tax loopholes as tax increases). Buffet is saying that tax increases should be on the table, and that the current tax system results in people at his wealth level paying a smaller percentage of their income as taxes than people in the middle class and that he doesn't think this is fair and that it should be possible to change this without dire consequences.

You seem to be dismissing this because he has not proposed detailed legislation to overhaul the tax code.
OK, but:

1. that interview was conducted 4 weeks ago - it's the first sentence of the story, and the video has been on YouTube since July 25. So that doesn't seem new to me. Plus, what he's saying is the conventional wisdom anyway based on the prior IPO filings and as a competitor of Groupon he's obviously not a neutral observer.

2. 'A Respected Investor' saying something isn't a whole lotta news either; it's just a sampling of the existing spectrum of opinion. Now, I know you have to respect confidentiality, but without any context, how much weight should I accord this investor? Is s/he respected in the tech sector, involved with the company or its underwriters, has s/he invested in 1 successful IPO, 10, or 100? I'm sure you added this information because you consider the person's judgment worth sharing, but in any sample of 10 professional investors you'll be able to find a true believer and a skeptic.

I'm sorry my commentary came off as dismissive or hurtful. It just didn't 'click' with me, but maybe other people will find it useful in a way I didn't.
Cooliris Releases ToolKit for iOS as Open-Source
"This book will be auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle on March 6, 2012”

Possibly not soon.
Jesus... I learned about firearm safety long before even touching a pellet gun, much less an actual rifle. Can't even imagine as a child even pointing my BB gun at a person.

Sounds like the mother in the original article was far more interested in herself than her children... sad.
They're a huge pain in the ass to get working on 4.3 firmware too.
This is why a good leader lets the mob have it's day.

Stop a protest because it turns violent...well everyone kind of expects that. Even the protesters.

Try to stop a protest before it happens, or throw up logistical roadblocks...and you end up with the Civil Rights Era redux.

Always let people have their say...and get it over with. You can more easily stand a gut punch than death by a thousand cuts.
2) You wouldn't they they would also mention Gates? I think there battle could be seen similarly as the Leibniz vs Newton calculus war.
If you are interested in an auto collection or yachts or paintings, you'd already be buying those. You aren't going to say "Dang...I was going to invest my $1 billion and earn $200 million/year, but these new taxes mean I'll only earn $180 million so screw that--I'm going to quit investing and become a car collector".
Android is open-source. What is not open-source is Sense or Blur, or the Gmail or Maps clients. You can't assemble the bundle that is preinstalled on your phone just like you can't download the TiVo software and turn your PC into one, even though the little gizmo runs Linux (as does your Panasonic, LG or Sony TVs, all of which run some flavor of Linux).
I felt the same about the title. Games today have no need for realistic fluids, and for that reason the trick is they only render the surface.
Travis-ci is already doing something to that effect. Check them out. https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci
Third Win a Boxee Box Contest kicks off
Windows Phone 7 meets fragmentation
I think we really could need some of the YC spirit over here. Even as a german, I would agree London to be the best choice.

I would be really glad, because in europe (esp. in germany) at startup events we usually see some successful copycat entrepreneur as a speaker..

It seems like nearly no one in europe is taking risk in business to develop real innovation.
We would love to have you over here:)
You sound like you might be interested in a paper about "Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel" (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...).
I don't know... What are some realistic numbers here? Suppose a mere $10m acquisition, 5% is a mere $500k. Suppose 10 employees, 5 are maxed out, the other 5 have 4,3,2,1,0 units respectively. The payout range then is $14k to $71k. Working there for 5+ years, taking home only $71k, which is definitely nice, while the boss gets at least a few million... I think employees should be made as happy as possible at acquisition time. I'm not sure this scheme would accomplish that, but I don't know what realistic numbers would be nor what competitive options/equity figures would look like.
Do You Know Who Else Was In Line To Acquire Motorola Mobility?
Are the domain renewals still $39.95 through Weebly? Maybe if they raised the price on that they could have already built their new office.
New Android Malware Disguises Itself As Google+
Not to mention that they have liberally borrowed features from Android for the last two major iOS releases. Folders, the notification system, cloud integration, OTA updates etc. If you're going to take such a self-righteous stand on borrowing then you better be lilly-white yourself.
I ran into this problem before. One of our engineers had a script that kept some temporary data in his home directory, which went crazy at one point and generated millions of files (no clue the reasoning for this).
Anyways, this was HELL on our backup solution, which ended up failing several nights in a row on that area. Luckily, since the files were largely useless, this left our options open. I think the kicker was the 'rm' command not working (same issue as listing? This was a Solaris 8 system I think). I believe we ended up moving all of the other data off of that filesystem and newfs'ing it.
The BART stations in downtown San Francisco are all deep underground (two to three long flights of stairs / escalators). Service in them, and in the tunnels between them and under the Bay, is completely dependent on BART running cell repeaters.
FCC reviewing SF subway cell shut down
Agree. Why in this day and age I need to fire up an external tool to look at diffs is beyond me. I appreciate the external tool exists (for times when I'm NOT in my editor/IDE to begin with) but I'd rather it was all baked in.
You left out this, which I happened to catch on twitter the other day:

> One door on the #BART train gets stuck, the entire train is out of service. Hundreds of people out onto the platform! #incredible

https://twitter.com/#!/mjijackson/status/100612825134800898

I had that same sort of thing happen to me in Phoenix, but people don't take public transportation as seriously there.
IGF chair continues campaign against game cloning
It's uninteresting because it has no application to her.

Knowing how an iPhone works does not help her to make better art anymore than knowing how an internal combustion engine works. If you want her to be interested in it you need to relate it to her goals and objectives.

Also, most artists are extremely concerned about what makes the art relevant to them, that is to say that they are not producing art for mass consumption, but primarily for the adulation of themselves, and from their peers, and possibly their patrons.

What makes code interesting to us is the same thing that makes flowers interesting to botanists. Start by becoming interested in the arts and applying the skills you have (coding) to the artistic field. I guarantee you if you make art that interests to her she will become interested in how you made it.

I was painting with a friend who was an artist and I had a desire to make a mondrian inspired piece so I took a ruler and started marking geometric shapes with a ruler and calculator in hand and measuring the dyes according to various ratios in an attempt to produce complementary colors. She became extremely interested in my methods and remarked at what a systematic approach I had to art and we started talking about algorithmic beauty such as golden ratios, fibonacci, fractals, color theory, all the way to the expression of general relativity in some of Dali's later pieces and the kinds of quantum effects that produce color.

If you provide her with opportunities to learn more about a field she's already interested in you will have no problem getting her interested, if you start out trying to get her interested in your field you will have no hope.
Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion
If you mess up your data retention, though, you can get in big legal trouble. Sometimes you have to ask yourself whether you want to be the one who's liable for that.
Somewhat disingenuous title. These are the best small towns to live in in the United States. Though i was unable to find out exactly what the definition of a 'small town' was.
basically, being the first is not always an advantage. If a startup implements your idea before you do, then make it better, make it easier to use.
And the good thing in being second is that you already know if people like the idea or not.
Equity encourages employees to build long-term value even if they plan on leaving the company, and act favorably to the company after leaving. A buyout lottery for current employees hurts morale and encourages people to hang on to the job for the sake of hanging on (and royally screws them tax wise).

Mainly this is an argument against ever using an LLC for a long-lived business. LLCs should be reserved for personal shell companies and companies that will be wound down at a fixed time. If this had been an S corp or C corp, they could have simply adapted an off the shelf stock option agreement.
It's nice to have this available but a lot of AI techniques are fairly computation-intensive. A language like Ruby isn't going to be very efficient for non-trivial datasets.
Also missing C-a/C-e. All the meta bindings are noops as far as I can tell. C-<space> doesn't work to anchor the selection. Just generally worthless.
I think in general the premium goes to pay for support contracts and service as much as for the atoms and bits. Of course, it can always be argued whether those contracts and services are worth the premium, but many enterprise customers (Google being the obvious high-profile exception) seem to think so.
We add a lot of value on top of the domain name that we think justifies the price (our customers seem to think so too).

If you don't, you're free to buy your own domain at GoDaddy (or anywhere else) and point it to Weebly, completely free of charge.
I use cloud9, and love it.
Whether they bring development in-house or hire out contractors, it will be cheaper and easier to find WordPress or PHP devs than Python/Django ones. For even light modifications, they won't even have to touch code in WordPress...there is likely already a plugin for it. This exact debate took place at my company (before I got here), and WordPress lost. That is the reason I work here...it takes 3 fulltime developers to support the platform they chose (an obscure CMS and a frontend built with Zend). Of course it is more powerful than WordPress, but more expensive and temperamental at the same time.