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You appear to be claiming that this is a demonstration of how much better Apple's custom ARM chips are, when it's just a better GPU in the core, just like Samsung's Hummingbirds in the Galaxy and Nexus S used the next GPU up compared with the iPhone 4. They're all PowerVRs. It's about as technically impressive as us both buying a laptop from Dell and me buying a laptop with a better GPU than yours.

I suppose you could give Apple 10% credit seeing how they bought that much of the company that makes them (again, after starting to use their products) but then Intel should get even more credit, because they've owned more, for longer.
> Ephemeral disks? Or persistent local?

Persistent local disks (hardware raid6 15k rpm). More storage options on the roadmap too.

> Very cool ^_^ How do you deal with geographic zones? Are they silod?

Our zones are different datacenters in different buildings, with completely different power supplies, UPSes and backup generators.

> Do you use cfgroups/selinux to deal with compromise of a kvm domain?

cgroups currently, selinux in development.

(full disclosure: I'm a Brightbox bod too!)
1. It's not realistic to demand that Chipotle "simply" offer the beans without bacon. Have you see the standardized, efficient layout of a Chipotle? Every inch of prep space has been planned out. They don't have an extra square foot back there for a third kind of beans. They already offer black beans, prepared without bacon, for those who want a vegetarian or kosher option. In my opinion, this goes far enough to address the needs of reasonable customers and does a good job of satisfying as many people as possible while still being workable for them.

2. Just to clarify, are you really saying that you would not eat at any restaurant in which EVERY dish and EVERY ingredient was kosher? This seems overboard to me. I certainly respect religious dietary customs (although honestly, I find some of them to be silly in the way that arbitrary rules from thousands of years ago are often silly), but this is a restaurant that clearly goes out of its way to be above-board about its ingredients. For instance, when they run out of their normal, organic chicken, there's always a sign informing you that they are using another chicken source temporarily, etc.
I'm also not a c++ programmer, but from what I've read so far I'd say the [](){} part is a lambda function which:

[] - captures no vars
() - accepts no parameters
{} - has an empty body

Wrapping it in (...)() immediately executes it.
I stand corrected, and should have checked Craigslist before posting. It is astounding how much rents have gone up recently. The neighborhoods I had in minde were Lower Haight (5 minutes-ish to the N, 10 minutes-ish to the rest of the lines, 15-20 minutes-ish to 16th & Mission BART) or the part of Market near the Castro Safeway (shave 5 - 10 minutes of all of those times). It seems like $1800 might be a better floor, and that is a studio-like thing. Of course, its a small market in those places so you may be able to find better (or worse or absolutely no) prices.
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This reminds me of a blog post I read months ago. I can't find it, but the long and the short of it is that us making fun of subcultures (hipster, goth, nerdy or otherwise) is kind of like the popular kids making fun of everybody who isn't a popular kid in highschool.
I didn't mean to denigrate the effort - it's a fantastic idea. I just meant to say that anyone wanting to use this for a wider-public app will need to put the extra effort in to make it work with the older IEs.
If you use Mac OS X, Cloud.app is exactly what you need. It puts a tiny icon in your menubar. Drag anything into the icon and it's uploaded to your Cloud.app account. The URL is copied into your clipboard automatically.

Otherwise, Google+.

(We use Cloud.app + IRC + email for collaboration. We swap IRC with Skype when we need voice. We couldn't ask for more.)
>If HP or IBM or SAP or Oracle wanted to do what, say, Dropbox does, they would throw effectively unlimited funding at the >problem until it was solved.

And if there is one thing we've learned from Microsoft etc. is that throwing unlimited funding at a problem fixes it.
All around, the stacks of products and aisles of merchandise screamed a technicolor siren song.

To me it screamed lots of overpriced cheap junk. Seriously, these stores are overpriced for the merchandise they sell.
Give me a break. The older generation "dreamed of greatness" and now no young people do anymore? Isn't this the same thing that every generation says about the previous generation?

The tools and technologies that are already changing the world today, and that will change the world tomorrow, are being worked on by people who might fit the description of San Francisco hipsters. Who do you think works on Twitter? Facebook? Who do you think works on the iPhone? These are products that are already having an impact on society, and it's not just the old guys who are working on them. And as for the "current" generation, what about companies like Square, Heroku, and SimpleGeo? Is that what you call mediocrity? Get off of your high horse.
I live close to the original Chipotle restaurant, and though I'm not vegetarian, I have ordered vegetarian tacos with pinto beans before (free guac) and not been informed that pinto beans contain pork. A friend of mine also said on twitter today that he's ordered a vegetarian burrito and been asked what kind of beans he'd like.

I believe they warn people a lot, but I don't think they can rely entirely on their employees to communicate a detail like this to customers. I think it's good that they're fixing their menu but that they should keep telling people at least as often as they do now that their pinto beans have pork in them. Some will miss the menus, and some will miss the verbal warnings.
HP: Please refund my TouchPad investment
Andrew Mason will not fail. Look at people behind companies not just at the box. Or you may follow the Michael Dell path when Steve just came back at Apple and Dell said: "Shut down the company and give the money left back to the shareholder. You don't have chances to succeed". 1998 circa.
It is superb that they have done the replication and followup and are reporting the null hypothesis.
Top Hat Moncocle (http://www.tophatmonocle.com)

Waterloo, Ontario

We pay for moving expenses for interns.

We do interactive classroom technology.

You'll get to play with Python, Django, Javascript, NodeJs.

The length of the internship is up to you, but 4 months is typical.

Paid, of course.
Gorgeous as it is -- I just can't use something that utterly breaks IE7,8. I wish the realities of browser support were different.

Nice contribution in any case.
Transcription of Dybvig's simple Scheme interpreter to JS
Billions seems unlikely. 450k enlisted men, 100k total force in Afghanistan. Let's guess the Army will want 250,000 of them. You'd need to sell them for $4k each to get that first billion dollars.

Sure, you can sell the first few for more than that during testing, you have to recover the cost of the documentation and supporting materials the army will require plus pay all the people you hire to interface with their counterparts, but ultimately I think you'll end up in the $1k neighborhood and still be making a huge per unit profit. ($200 would be a nice price for the consumer version. Maybe more depending on how nice a camera you put on it.)

(I assume the soldier will already be carrying a suitable display.)
Car Theft Via Texting: Vehicle's Alarm May Be Weak Link
>> say checking my Twitter feed

Haha.

That would have been very well played if it had been intentional, but I somehow doubt that that's the case.
What do you think of the version of the code I posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2904572? I originally wrote it in response to your comment, "Not everything should be abstracted into a library. I think the example in their screencast is a good one," but then I thought it might have wider interest.
Off topic, perhaps, but interesting nonetheless :). HN values the quality of the discussion over its focus on a given article.

We have threads for a reason.
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The Busy Beaver Problem
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I average somewhere between 1.5-3GB without any Netflix streaming and fairly light tethering to my laptop. I do a lot of audio streaming via Rdio, but otherwise I'm really not sure where the data's being consumed.
I agree. I just think having bacon in their pinto beans doesn't do the rest of their simple design justice. I have no moral objection to them having bacon in their pinto beans if they have proper signage.
These investors are big boys, so if they wanted to buy out founders then more power to them. Early investors, the ones who would potentially be screwed by this, often have a provision allowing them to sell too. It's not a greed issue (implying morality), it's simply a stupidity issue.
IBM is down 4% too, so maybe it's the services sector.
I think this is one more example of how, rather than freeing software from the grip of corporations, the open source movement has succeeded in making the licensing of software such a morass that nobody can even understand it.
I think this gets at a key misunderstanding in the post. The purpose of a grid is not to align everything to pixel perfection, but to assist in generating an interface that communicates well and is attractive. Departures from the grid sizing can have a variety of benefits:

1) Visually distinguish navigational elements from content
2) Account for visual weight of different elements to create a stronger perception of rythm
3) Give some warmth and life to the design so it doesn't feel sterile and robotic
4) Indicating continuation of content (as you very nicely explain)

As the Dalai Lama said, "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
I liked my motorcycle for city riding, but I didn't have the nerves to ride on any of the surrounding freeways so I got rid of it. Something like a Vespa would be amazing in SF.
They mention android but I can't find an apk, nor is it in the appstore. Is it just not released yet?
That's disappointing. Someone needs to fork this and make it at least look reasonable in IE8 and preferably at least visible in IE7.
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-410#previous has something to say about how the golden ratio can pop out without being encoded directly in plant phylotaxis.
Calling this a ponzi scheme is a mistake. If you consider coupons merchandise and Groupon getting net 60 day terms it's just like any other retailer.
Actually the "technology" behind wisdom teeth is quite smart. How many organisms feature resources timed to "spring" 20 or 30 years from birth, to replace lost "components"?

You experience them as painful because your teeth don't rot as they used to; until the XX century, it was common for people to lose many of their teeth by the age of 30, so they were grateful for an extra set. They'd probably be dead before 45 anyway, so just a few would suffice to chew your way through the last years of your life.
The Ponzi scheme allegation isn't about the cash flow model, it's about the investment return model: Groupon used money from the late investors to pay back the first ones with a profit, even if for now their business is losing money - and it isn't clear if they will start making real money from their business model. Or at least enough money to make the total investment worthwhile.
Just because it's shaped like a tree doesn't mean it has to have a central trunk.

However, mini trees are probably better for aesthetics, weather, maintenance, etc.
The video has no audio.
I must admit I always worry about toxic chemicals in the cheap plastic stuff from dollar stores. Probably I am too paranoid, but that is the way it is for now.
I'm a Problem Solver, but have some traits of an Inventor. I believe in being pragmatic, but also realize if you make the process dry + boring, it's not a good recipe for productivity, which is essential in solving problems. People say you should use the language you know best in creating a startup, but if it bores you to hell, you're better off using a new one
Few things:

Persistent local storage (hardware raid6 15k rpm disks).

Higher performance - fast hardware and access to more cores to burst to. We also use KVM, which is substantially faster than Xen (particularly in 64bit mode).

Fast server creation - servers usually built and booted within 30 seconds.

You can map Cloud IPs directly to Load Balancers (and more mapping options coming soon!)

And as we use KVM, we already support pretty much any OS and any kernel, without any fiddling. FreeBSD works a treat, with no special support required.

And we've got loads of ace stuff in the pipeline too, so more to come!

Also, all Brightbox customers are eligible for free hugs. We're just plain nicer ;)

(full disclosure: I'm a Brightbox bod, obviously!)
I used to run their dev servers (briefly back in 2001). I don't entirely understand what you mean by shady but the tech does work - and provided you use it for the right thing, extremely well. The key is to realise that it tries to be a semantic search, not a text search - if you want brute force grep you'll be better with a google search appliance or similar, I suspect.

The development team were well looked after and the CEO now is the same as then, so I'd hope the internal culture is still pretty pleasant - I really enjoyed working there and most of the employees genuinely believed in the product's ability to deliver (when not mis-sold, which, well ... seemed to happen reasonably rarely, which is about the best I've seen in any sales department). I only left due to discovering I really HATED living in Cambridge, which wasn't really something they could fix.
Thanks.

> You probably want your app to run on both XP and 7?

No, we're only targeting Windows 7 and up. This is a personal itch we're scratching. The commercial angle is a bonus ... for now!

> 8 is vaporware as a target platform for releasing and scheduling purposes.

What about, say, 4 to 6 months from now? That's the timeline we're thinking of right now.

> WPF is supposed to be a panacea with XAML being markup and that letting you generate "fluid-UI" just like HTML with auto-resizing and scaling as in the browser for your web-app.

I've read a bit about WPF. It sounds amazing. My major concern is: will it be actively developed in the future? I know Microsoft will never break backward compatibility, but will they keep adding new things to WPF? That's what's been bugging me.

But I guess having this discussion is fruitless. After all, what choice do we have besides WPF?
They didn't make it clear in the interview if they'd solved the imaging problem or not yet. How do you get usable video (or stills) back from a camera that's rotating constantly - and potentially, erratically.
Guess which cities produce the most Android apps
Completely agreed. The method described in the article requires commenters to use HTML tags and even know how to balance them. In addition, it is supposed to detect code blocks automagically, which would be prone to errors. (How do you know whether a block of text is English or Python?)

Markdown is terse, easy to write, and readable even when rendered in plain text. There's a reason why so many web sites, from Reddit to Github to Stack Exchange, uses Markdown exclusively.

As for the alternatives: Wikitext ''seriously'' '''overloads''' the '''''apostrophe''''', often needs to be supplemented with <u>HTML</u> anyway, and contains [[wiki-specific syntax]] which is not relevant in most blog-commenting situations. BBCode is just a bastardized subset of HTML. It's popular in old-fashioned forum software, but I see no reason to use it in new applications.
There is one palatable explanation although I have not seen any confirmation: the early payouts assuaged investors and executives who might have preferred the Google deal.

Also, there are many examples of fantastically wealthy folks who remain quite motivated.
Upgrading the Linux license to v3 would also require all copyright holders to agree, making it equally impossible to do in practice... in fact, probably more so since most contributors would just blindly 'yea' vote on revoking the termination of an Android license for any specific vendor who came back into compliance whereas some of them are actively opposed to GPLv3 terms.
The constant tense changes were very distracting. And he forgot the part where he writes an almost poignant blog post making fun of hipsters while (hopefully) ironically describing how you're not a hipster unless you make fun of hipsters.

Not to say I wasn't mildly amused. But this stuff is over, isn't it? I thought it was cool to be earnest again. I thought having read David Foster Wallace meant we can all stop being so jaded and critical of everyone around us and actually try to learn to live in a modern society while having empathy those around us, even in a big, anonymous city, and genuinely enjoy the trappings of modern culture and technology in a way that mindfully acknowledges the amazing privilege of living where and when we are living.

In that vein, this was my favorite part:

I’ll look at Sutro Tower. I’ll feel lucky to be paying too much money for a very small apartment, because San Francisco is worth it in these tiny little moments.

I'm in Portland, but I love SF. It's one of my favorite cities in the world. Can't people just enjoy that?
Well, If we're wildly speculating, we could also imagine kick-backs and money laundering.

I know nothing of Groupon's financing. I know Digital Sky was a large, late investor in Facebook. And they are controlled by a Russian oligarch.

Wealthy criminals are sometimes willing to invest in unprofitable businesses to launder money, buy influence and hope that a bigger fool will follow them.
Of course they do. To the maximum extent they can manage. As the saying goes: if you are using a web service for free, you are not their customer, you are their product (or something like that).
"Hence, we created new termination provisions for GPLv3. These terms offer violators a simple method to earn back the rights they had. Parties who violate the license have their rights restored provisionally as soon as they come back into compliance, and permanently if no copyright holders terminate those rights within sixty days of the last violation. Furthermore, first-time violators will have their rights restored permanently if they come into compliance within thirty days of receiving such notice."

So you violate the GPL and if no copyright holder complains in 60 days, you continue to distribute software? Hmm.
Cash flow management is really important to the long term. Actually, if you run out of money in the short term, there is no long term at all...
A Tale of Two Pitches From Suster
See also: http://www.TheEasyAPI.com
Visualizing Famine in the Horn of Africa [Infographic]
Yeah, I have had similar experience. The start-up that will disrupt the space you speak of is PureDiscovery up north in Dallas. I assisted in a Purediscovery implementation in place of Autonomy and the client will never look back. First, they clearly do not have all the bells and whistles Autonomy has (that dont work that well), but on a side by side basis, I had a Purediscovery Index up in 4 hours and the results are light years better than Autonomy. We do not have to re-index our existing data either which is what I think makes the Purediscovery solution so unique. Its funny for me to see all of the comments now about Autonomy. I have been there! Where have all of these people been the past few years? Spinning plates...love it
Bradfa - Do you want to talk for a story next week about Rochester to NYC tech corridor?

@benpopper
NodeJS: A Giant Step Backwards?
What's going on with Joe Biden's watch? Seems a little... illuminated.
Original title: "Is Apple faking evidence to crush the competition? Not likely"
(repeating from other thread): http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-410#previous has something to say about how the golden ratio can pop out without being encoded directly in plant phylotaxis.
The author said he "felt ill" from hearing about the bacon in the beans. Apparently not ill enough that it stopped him from eating there for the better part of a decade, though.

I have nothing against not eating pork, by the way. Some people do it for religious reasons, some for ethical/vegetarian reasons, etc.

However it is hard to argue with the fact that it makes things tasty.
This is absolutely interesting and amazing to see. There's a lot of good elements and style in here. I think this is a great effort and movement forward to help bring a "standard UI" library to the web. I think there's a good use case of websites starting to have a more "locked in" UI/Look & Feel. I'm not convinced by this notion but it's something I've been thinking about lately.

Either way, this is a great library for bootstrapping your web-app.

I do have some qualms though, but this is due to the limitation of CSS. You really should start practicing separation of content from presentation. It's great to see them leverage LESS but I'd like to see this integrated with SASS/Compass.

I'll probably convert it over and release the link on hacker news when ready.

* the stuff that's really cool is forms/modal/navbar/tips
A vivid picture of life at HP
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I mostly agree, but Google Apps for Business is slowly chipping away at some of the market that 5 years ago might've bought an enterprise "email solution", especially at the lower end of the market, like universities, state governments, and medium-sized businesses. Less success among very large businesses, but a few have adopted it.
http://browsershots.org/http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
One case I can think of is HTML must be allowed in comments for some WYSIWYG libraries that can't output Markdown/BBcode or WhateverMarkup. If most user of the website is using WYSIWYG with only selective few prefers plain text editing, the ideas in this article might make sense.

Though, instead of went through all the trouble, I'd rather force my users to use Markdown + wmd than trying to deal with HTML in comments.
Hmm fair enough.
"within sixty days of the last violation"

If you continue to distribute in violation of the GPL, that violation window continues to be reset.
Such a shame. That will rule it out for a lot of developers.

For all your designers and front-end developers: there is a real need for something like this. Have a look through the weekendhacker archives and look at how many developers ask for design help. Templates on sites like themeforest are often only suitable for basic crud/admin apps or require so much customisation it's easier to start from scratch. At the other end of the scale you have a variety of frameworks and boilerplates which are great from a technical perspective but do little to help aesthetically challenged developers like me.

What we need is something in between. A library of pre-styled css 'components' that look good and support the most significant browsers. Similar in principle to Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS but with a greater range of visual styles. I'd pay significantly more than the cost of a themeforest template for a component library that managed all the cross browser issues for me and I'm sure others would too.
It is great to see more competition in the riak hosting market. It would be even greater if they offered a free plan for development.