skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunate..a link to the Q&A would be helpful, pehaps with less vitriol. However, it has been said (and I've noticed, though I'm a lurker by far on Quora) that the more popular vs factual answers are upvoted / higher ranked. It does seem to be more of a techie "gossip" page (or at least turning into such): work environments, or, engineer backgrounds / new projects.

"What is Charly Cheever's favorite Kate Perry song?" In case you didn't know it, Charly's a co-founder at Quora...

Not helping your argument.

Some Quora threads are highly detailed and indepth to the level of HN discussions by industry experts (not trying to start a HN vs Quora (or, HN OR Quora), only making a comparison as to how much quality HN has as far as contributors go, and that, Quora, does get that level of discussion. Sometimes).

With how clean Quora is, I always though LinkedIn should buy / re-design and import / etc. Quora's data into LinkedIn. As LN Answers is wanting. Pretty heavily.
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PCs undoubtedly get slower over time. OSx is way better in that respect but based on the data collected in our office Ubuntu kicks the ass of both OSx and Windows. Those using Ubuntu here have suffered no slow down in two years. I guess that this selling point will ring very true with consumers. I also imagine that google will continue to autoupdate (for free) the OS and, being Linux based, it is more likely to work just as well in 2 years (as our Ubuntu installs).
focusing on just the high-end is a losing strategy in phones just like it was with computers. volume wins. ecosystem wins.
I would urge though that early stage startups be careful to not prematurely scale (with graphics). This info seems more for those that are wee bit further down the lifecycle. Just keep that in mind.

If you've already got a few customers and are trying to spur the engine of growth then going this way will surely help you.

Carefully make the correct decisions based on who your customers are (and in this facet if they really are Enterprise).

My experience with Enterprise is that it can seem like a networking game. Either your intro'd somehow, reached out to (the easy way), or part of a 'approved vendors' list (take a guess on how you get in to that... '*sometimes' requires insured...).

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2700-the-best-visual-descript...

Just keep in mind where you stand to make a better choice.
I despise that they added that extra background in Lion
I know this may be hard to understand, but pretty is an end unto itself. You don't need any better use.
Isn't there also something about a promise Verizon gave the government when they won their LTE spectrum? That all devices on the network would be open to any application? I recall Google using this as a club over the iPhone 5 on Verizon.
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I was pondering today why no-one really knows about or even uses it.

As a bit of a general question to everyone, did old browsers not support it or something? Or do people prefer using relative urls over absolute style ones?
I was prepared for a link bait blog post and I ended up getting a quality piece of writing. Pretty good.
hilarious.

“It’s so limited!” the man in his 20′s was saying while sitting in front of one of the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 devices, and idly playing with the clickable trackpad. He was saying this to two friends that had crowded around the device and a staff member who was managing to stay calm while defending the Chromebook’s existence. “For 350 quid [Brit-speak for pounds] you can get so much more.”

He looked up at the staff member and asked, hopefully, “Is this going to have iTunes?”

“No.”

“See what I mean!” he cried.

“There’s Grooveshark,” one of the friends piped up.

“All I’m saying is it’s a computer for solely online purposes. Why? You could just buy a netbook and install Chrome on it.” He gesticulated at the screen. “It’s just a shell with Internet.”
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can you cite an example of when DRAM is used for persistent storage? I am not aware of any.
Pro-tip for "programmer's back" - take pilates. Just do it. You'll feel like an idiot for a while, but my god will it improve your back strength and flexibility. Most back pain actually comes from your hip flexors, and so you end up working AROUND your back rather than on it directly, which makes it easier to get started. And unlike pumping iron at the gym, you generally leave class feeling taller and refreshed.
What, you haven't?
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Yes, I am aware of the CS vs street smarts debate. Everybody has its own opinion, and I am sure neither of us is going to convince the other, so I'd rather not go there.

At the end of day, you seem to miss my point altogether. Testing for the skill is not useful in itself. It is just an heuristic.

The industry is choke full with people that seem fairly competent and accomplished, who is able to produce code that fulfills the specification, but who also come with a collection of vices, bad practices, and simply cannot make trade-offs intelligently.

People like me wants to believe that, because CS foundations are not strictly needed for the task at hand, these people tend to ignore it for the same reason that they ignore other, more important, stuff that also is not strictly needed to complete the task at hand (but that will have a direct impact on the quality of your solution).

I am fully aware that there are great developers that do not come from a CS background. I am also painfully aware that there's people who excels at the CS 101 questions but cannot perform in a real world environment. At the end of day, this does not provide a final go or no go answer. It is just an indicator of whom you want to bring in for a deeper, longer interview.

> hope you're not trying to put those words in my mouth!

Not at all. I was just going on with the troll thing. Hope I did not offend you.
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Why don't you look at the data in the QR code first? Most QR code readers show you the URL and make you say "yeah, I want to go there".
But the question is, is it google approved? i.e. will there be android market, gmail, updates, etc.. (highly doubt on updates though)
But... will it blend?
Get a prepaid.

I paid $200 for an LG Androidy thing (an Optimus V, if anyone really cares) and now I pay $25 a month for 300 minutes per month and unlimited data. It's a crazy better deal than anything else out there.
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I got tired of waiting for some resources to load and staring at a puckered anus: http://i.imgur.com/9NGQS.jpg
Chrome 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 for me and it doesn't work. Firefox 7 does though.
People have mentioned the tick/tock model. In fact, I did, and even said they should just do an iPhone 4s this time around: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061278

I also noted they should tick the iPhone when the iPad tocks.
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What a horrible title for an article! The first time someone used ... X is dead, long live X ... it had meaning. It is completely cliche now.
"That's never been an issue before. Other iPhone product cycles have been well under two years and still introduced new features."

Not so, the pattern of introducing an entirely new model only every second year and a performance boost of the existing model in between is one that Apple has followed since the iPhone 3G:

iPhone 3G -> iPhone 3GS -> iPhone 4 -> iPhone 4S

For that reason I was not expecting an iPhone 5 and was bemused by all the hype surrounding it.

Yet objectively this is a significant upgrade with a huge performance gain, the addition of a very exciting feature in Siri (I suspect it's limited to the iPhone 4S as a result of the decision to add dedicated processing hardware) and a vastly-improved camera. The iPhone 4 design is great and extremely successful, I don't understand why people are so upset that it wasn't changed.
I know a few people who felt Yoga sounded a bit "soft" [...]

"Sounded?" That word suggests that they have only read or heard about it, without actually trying it.

I wonder if they would consider the physical and mental development required to hold Mayurasana as soft?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayurasana
In the late 90's we saw a shift from brick-and-mortar stores to online-only stores. It seems like you just can't do some things (like hard sells) with online-only stores. I think this decade is going to find a good balance between online and b&m stores.

I think it is especially true with things you need to "play with" before you make a decision to buy - e.g. keyboards (and other input devices), tablets, phones, watches, etc.

Companies that have or are starting to have b&m presences again: Apple, Google, Microsoft, SparkFun (yay, Microcenter!), RadioShack (the good-old RadioShack from the 80s and 90s, not upsell-the-phone RS. Still holding my breath for this one). Fry's was one of the survivors because it understood the need for customer-product interaction (imho), even though it did decline in customer service quality, which is a result of the race to the bottom price against internet-only stores.
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I can't find the original reference(s), but not that long ago the SEC suspended trading of some company for a short period of time because the site hosting some recently released financial report was DDoSed, leading to potential information asymmetry for investors.

Not exactly a spectacular effect, but at least one way in which actions on the public web can have a (small) influence on trading operations.
Yes, I could probably spend 3 to 4 hours of my time fucking around with a phone to get it to work, but why would I want to do that? And more importantly why would I want to pay for that experience? Even if I do get the phone working, at best it's on par with iPhone. IMHO the only thing that Android has going for it is that Scala sucks less than Obj-C.

It's like changing the oil on my car, yes I know how to do it, I even have jack stands, yet I take it to the shop and pay someone else to do it? Why? Because my time is worth more than it costs.
Good points--but it looks from my limited knowledge of web frameworks like most people aren't even using AJAX, much less to its full potential. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like Flask/web2py and other MVC frameworks are more interested in keeping track of things on the server, not pushing things to the client.

Admittedly, that helps with security, but when you're making something trivial, it's not necessary to push all of the traffic back to the server to get session variables, templates, and the like.
Something like http://www.anandtech.com/show/1742 seems similar.
I disagree. Basically he says he loves Backbone and CoffeeScript because they remove the headaches of Javascript and "chatty web-apps", but doesn't get any farther than that, instead plugging his company's training class.
I agree with everything the article says. IMHO, the biggest announcement from yesterday is the $99 iPhone4. I think consumers when given the choice between a cheaper Android (not the flagship ones at $200+) handsets or an iPhone4 will pick the iPhone4.
I thought the biggest complaint was still the endless checking on platforms (IE 6, 7, 8, 9, Firefox, lynx...) and the difficulty in layout (negative widths, anyone?) Try three resizable columns sometime! (I'm still trying to figure out a solution to this one. Even the new layouts of CSS3 break in funny ways.)
Does not work in IE 8.
Market segmentation is serving different segments with different products; what you're talking about is market abandonment ;-)

It's true that it has served Apple incredibly well recently... but it nearly killed them once.

There was a very interesting talk at the business of software conference of 2009 by Geoffrey Moore:

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/03/video-of-geoffrey...

that talked about innovation and how you need to out-differentiate to stay on top of the game; the position you never want to be in is to be "best in class" because best in class is for suckers: it consumes enormous amounts of resources for luxury features that customers won't pay for. You want to be out of this world (or good enough).

What Apple did to Nokia is they invented a completely new product that was much more than a "phone"; what is happening now is that

1) Android is becoming "good enough" (even Windows phone, according to some pundits)

2) Apple doesn't seem to care about "goodenoughness"

3) but Apple's products are not an order of magnitude better, as they used to be. They are flirting dangerously with best-in-class territory.
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No problem. :)

I see what you're saying; but for your first few titles, I'd probably recommend just focusing on creating something that people will want to download and use/play later in the first place.

Also remember that once it's downloaded, they'll hopefully use/play it multiple times. So, maybe you should just update this app in 10-15 days, to get more installs, and then release a higher quality app in a month or so, instead of in two weeks.

I don't think it's about how many people are downloading your app today, it's more about how many people will use your other app(s) during the day/week of your new release.

Just be sure to be focusing on the right thing.

That's my opinion anyway. :)
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They are basically throwing the electorate at them with all the new laws and proposals for Internet disconnection and all that. They probably don't even see it coming.
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Prepaid doesn't have to mean cheap. From my point of view, I don't care if it's cheap. I just want it contract-free. I'll happily pay the full unsubsidized cost of the iPhone, provided it's unlocked and I can waltz up to any mobile provider in the world, say "I can haz prepaid SIM?" and start using it.

Given that an iPod touch starts at $199, can it really cost that much more to stick phone parts in the back of it?
The article states that the patents cover WCDMA, which is apparently one of the standards used by GSM, and the standard that Apple used with the 3GS(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mobile_Telecommunicat...).

CDMA is a superset of that, apparently, and can also apply with certain GSM providers.
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Yup, that's true. I welcome a verbal debate.
Probably for the same reason I stopped: it's not fun.

Given I have a finite amount of time to socialize my identity online, the value proposition of a service has to extend into emotion rather than pure pragmatism.

Fun and joy: maximize this for me and my loyalty follows. If you want me to switch, you had best maximize these more than the existing player.

In Googles case, the service just isn't fun. I always feel like I am missing things, it's hard to track comments you have read and the circle interface is klunky. Facebook has the same type of issues as an information service, but makes up for it in being a fun service for identity curation. Twitter is the best for a river-of-discourse type use case.
Scientists Scan Your Brain To Watch The Movies Playing In Your Mind
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In other words, it pays to be the pretty girl in the room. The fact that the underlying product, business, and people did not change highlights how most venture deal flow is filtered by relying on relativistic gauges of peer interest. It's pretty sad, honestly. Of course, not all are like this, for example YC and other programs with formalized processes.
To expand on this: XMPP is the opposite of a walled-garden. I've used iChat with Google Talk, I've used it with an internal Jabber server, and the 'normal' iChat is AOL IM.

Even the Bonjour chat is open - just XMPP with ZeroConf discovery.

To say that iChat is 'totally walled garden' betrays a deep lack of understanding of the software being discussed.
I think you misspelled 'amirite'. Also, yesterday's APPL fall was like 6%. Right on all remaining points.
So this flies over my head a bit. Can someone explain why:

(a) Ryan Dahl is qualified to speak about these issues (i.e. he worked on the original Unix design or something)

(b) Rob Pike's comments are a big deal to Ryan, and

(c) whether Ryan is right or wrong?

I'm one of the "new guys" that doesn't know what he's missing, and I'd love to put this into context.
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I was fully aware of the Polish contribution - in fact it's mentioned on the Bletchley Park tour, which includes memorial to the Polish cryptographers.

A more correct version of my previous comment would have been "the mechanical device that was used to decrypt Enigma".
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There's also another version of it on http://charmseven.com/
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Ad regulations are mainly aimed at safety and appearance from the street. I doubt there are many regulations about ads lying flat on one's roof.

As for ad banner vs. QR code, I think the QR code wins, pixel-for-pixel. If you look at that picture in the article, replacing the QR code with some sort of ad at the same size (or even just text) would require the viewer to have to zoom in further to make it out.
This is correct. I was one of the students that helped out incrementally on the project. There were always several students who spent a lot of extracurricular hours, while a good portion of the work came from students who would help out for a semester or two (myself included) when free time was available. There's a lot to get done in school, focusing on one single project so much wouldn't lead to a rounded individual.
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Most of the computation and work thrown at JavaScript on the client side is trivial. I mean, really, absolutely nothing. On top of that, that client is sporting some crazy-super-duper-intel-voodoo cpu with gigabytes of RAM. That's why things fly. On the server side, you're running on an instance with limited RAM and a CPU that is being cut into a multitude of pieces through virtualization. On top of that, the server is trying to provide for a multitude of clients at the same time. That's why you have to be careful.

But we all know this stuff already.

We know you can't brute-force things on the server side. You are working with very limited resources.

Any blocking operation will destroy an event loop and the process model will crumble. Threads are more resistant to this. The offending thread will block, the other threads will keep going. So what?

If you multiply processes with a balancer to try to avoid this, you've reinvented threading, in a really bad way. We know that too.

Please pay attention. Things are changing.

Remember what I started with? That lopsided power divide between client and server. We know this. That's why we're moving the heavy lifting from the server to the client.

Ryan, you're wrong. I'm not going to send the video encryption job to a different process. I'm going to send it to the client or to some distributed cloud thingie. My server can't handle it no matter how you skin that cat.

Ted, you're wrong. My server doesn't block on the CPU. Because there's not much of a CPU there to begin with. Threads won't make my barely-there-cpu any more present. What isn't there, isn't there.

All my server does is store data and retrieve data. It does nothing else. NodeJS, PHP, Python, Java, etc. etc. that entire layer has become just that. A layer. A layer that facilitates access to the data. That's it.

It doesn't matter what you use or how you use it, as long as you don't touch the CPU.

Because on the server, that CPU isn't really there and no magical model will make it appear. Do your computation somewhere else. Like on the client's computer, who is using his marvel of engineering for playing solitare.
Useful to them specifically or useful in general?

Dogfooding is nice and all, but some people are not part of their products' target audiences.
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I wouldn't say it's crazy big. Bigger than 99% of one page sites? Sure. I've got a 50mbps connection and even with a far slower one, this would only take a few seconds to load.
ok breathe..i don't know what discussions are suggesting this nor do i have the time or willpower to judge strangers' personlities and IQ levels based on what piece of hardware they prefer. im just saying that he might get a more positive response to an iPhone which generally has more hype/marketing around it which gives it the social advantge of more people knowing about it and being intrigued by it.
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Isn't it just a bit of waterproof paint and a domain redirection? $500?
I hate to give them the satisfaction, but I'm still debating. I'll see how much I can get for my 3GS; maybe that'll influence me.

The fact that I can now stream all my music to myself with iTunes Match frees up a good deal of space. My current 32GB 3GS is also filled to the brim, but there are a lot of apps that I never use which could be cleaned out.
Poll to iPhone 4 users: Will you buy iPhone 4S?
I'm curious about what current iPhone users' feelings are on the iPhone 4S. Are you going to buy it, or do you think they didn't upgrade the phone enough to warrant a $200+ upgrade?
No, I'm sticking with my iPhone 4.
No, I'm switching to Android.
No, for another reason.
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oh yes that is so elegant...
The most impressive bit of HTML5 I have run across lately is turntable.fm. Yes, I'm probably late to this particular party, but I was very impressed when I realized the interface is done entirely in HTML5.

So, to turntable.fm devs: good job!
Re: b

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
That's the "maybe a different case" bit.
You'd need a fairly large ad to be visible in satellite imagery. I suspect this service or anything like it would be a better bet in the higher-resolution areas where Google uses aerial imagery.