skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just about the size of the sale. It is also about what you are selling and how critical that is to the company's day-to-day operations. If your code review tool goes down for a few hours, meh. If your email goes down for a few hours, the world is on fire and somebody is losing their job.

In the later case, companies want to feel that the "if" scenario will never happen. It's not that outages can't happen, but, rather, that if an outage occurs, you will be taken care of. If UserVoice is your only support tool, you are unlikely to give that feeling.
I'm not suprised startmenu lost usage in win7.
It is because in windows 7 they kindof made it less user friendly you must operate startmenu in small box in bottom left corner and not like before where you can expand menu on whole screen. and you can't change it to classic start menu.
I recall reading that there are differences in the Thunderbolt support between the 13" MB Pro and the 15". This may not matter to you, but if you are planning/hoping to hook up a bunch of stuff (e.g. multiple external monitors), have a look at this aspect before deciding.
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In recent years, I have added yoga to my "body list." For the uninitiated, it likely sounds foreign, but the strength, flexibility and mind-centering aspects of a yoga practice must be experienced to be fully appreciated.
I doubt it. I've used one of the $80 Chinese tablets with ostensibly better specs and the thing was barely usable. It really depends on the details though. 366 MHz doesn't tell us what type of processor, nor whether it has hardware decoder chips in there too.
California is so screwed up. As a life-long resident, it's amazing to see how we continually get worse. I can only imagine how much money we wasted on this legislation, only to be repealed.

Pretty sure this re-enroll process was already in place, however for anyone curious, it's only a few clicks:

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If he wanted a device that would make him feel special, wouldn't he just get an Android phone? The puerile discussion going on on Hacker News about the iPhone 4S seems to indicate that if you like iPhones, you're a blind idiot sheep and if you like Anddroid phones, you're a super cool elite master of technology.
Precisely my concern. I feel that 4" is the goldilock size for high-end smartphones. I held the Samsung Galaxy S II the other day and I got the slightest hint of feeling that it was too big.
I don't agree with you on that one. I think people would have been more upset, as they expect a number increase = new design.
I think that both articles are saying the same thing, fundamentally:

Your brand should be something your customers expect, but only just.

Smart Bear was a small, upstart company, selling cutting-edge tools for developers into a relatively new market.

Developers and their managers value directness, especially at small companies. A vendor that shows all the signs of being a peacock while obviously being a pigeon will come across as scummy, because your market is expecting one of "small upstart dude in shed" or "massive enterprise company with a headcount greater than many cities", and not something in the middle.

Iron Port's customers, on the other hand, are buying security products, and frankly, the security industry is almost all theatre. An impressive-looking website, bespoke-looking product, and glossy sales brochure is all in the ante of playing at the security-vendor table, especially before Web 2.0.

Your company has to dress for the occasion.
If they are non-technical then you can make up some story about the world exploding if they go through with it...

Yeah, don't do this. Eventually even a non-technical person will figure out he's being bullshitted, and then you end up with a guy who doesn't trust you (for good reason) and often developers as a whole.
It's a network-path reference as defined in RFC 2396. The purpose is to fetch styles/scripts/images by https if the page is fetched by https.
The viewer's interpretation seems like the important one. It leeds to an interesting situation when creator and consumer are diametrically opposed in their understanding of a work.

In this particular case, it seems to have taught the artist a lot in the process.
The iPhone 1 won't, it's to do with CDMA which is only the iPhone 4 had as I understand it. The iPhone 4 with CDMA was also only available in the US though and that area is already under litigation.

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/05/samsung-app... for more info.
Honestly, I think that they wanted to launch the iPhone 5. But it just probably wasn't ready for "prime time" yet.
Why we need great design
It's also a terrible clock. It is incredibly hard to figure out the actual time when you have to look in 3 separate places for each part of the time. It's pretty, but borderline useless, just like flash.
I don't know this for a fact so don't get upset with me for providing unconfirmed rumors... but apparently the phone will not have physical buttons on the front (one of the Ice Cream Sandwich abilities) so the entire front will be a screen. This would allow the device to be about the same physical size as the current Nexus S while having a screen as large as 4.6 inches.
I'd like to take a yoga course which focused on strength and flexibility, without all the hippie mystical BS that seems to infect most of the yoga I've seen.
You had me right up to chiropractic.

Studies have shown chiropractic to be no better than placebo for pretty much all conditions other than lower back pain. For lower back pain it is better than placebo but not massively and given the associated risks (please tell me you don't let him near your neck) you'd be better off with more conventional remedies.

Don't get me wrong, if it makes you feel better then that's fine (though you should be aware of the risks). Most Chiropractors are nice, well meaning people, but medically it is unfortunately largely bunkum.

(Incidentally as far as I can tell there is no good evidence to support chiropractic in the treatment of scoliosis, though I'm sure your chiropractor has a different opinion.)

100% agree though with looking after your body though.
" The equivalent of Aston Martin releasing a competitor to the smartcar."

Hmmm.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Cygnet
Bad example. I know the underlying motivation for Aston wasn't to compete with Smartcar, but that's what they released nonetheless.
The guy completely misses the point. The only feature missing was a bigger screen, not LTE. The reason there was no screen is because apple pissed off samsung. Whay would samsung give apple third gen amoled?
Creative Sony PS3 Commercial Celebrates You
We have limited time. There are more new approaches than we have time to evaluate. Should choose which approaches to evaluate based on whether someone's selling a book and a training course?
Regardless of anything it MUST have better battery life than current phones.

And secondly why is everyone ditching buttons and especially the trackball which I LOVE and use a lot?
I would guess the problem with sockets is in the whole creation process. Instead of just calling open() on a magic pathname (like how you deal with devices in Unix), you call socket(), then bind()/listen()/accept() on the server side, or connect() on the client side. Luckily they didn't totally screw it up, and it's just a regular file descriptor after that point... except on Windows, where they did screw it up.
I guess it's because sockets are not files?
Yup. MacRumors really did a disservice to everyone with that mock up stuff. I get what the reasoning was, but that doesn't make it any better. Sometimes the rumor sites just flat out get it wrong, and MacRumors I think is responsible for a lot of over-zealous reporting.

That said, the stock lost some ground, but the thing with Apple's stock, it always goes up before and after their quarterly earnings calls. They continue to defy the numbers people expect from it.

Their profits are going to continue to rise, and with it, so will the stock. The geeks that have to have the new shiny will be disappointed, however, the casual user will love the iPhone 4S and it well sell like crazy. At least just as well as the iPhone 4.

Were we all hoping to see an "iPhone 5" ? Yup. I think we all were hoping, however little, that it would show up. But many of us with any sense of reasoning and logic regarding Apple have pretty much known that this update was going to be almost exactly what it was. Apple is on a two year design plan. Excuse the original iPhone since that was the exception (again, not that the iPhone 5 couldn't have been one as well). But if you look at it now, it becomes a lot more clear. iPhone 3G-> iPhone 3GS (Faster processor, more ram and the same design). iPhone 4->iPhone 4S (Faster processor, probably more ram, same design).

Next year we'll see a new case design, and maybe it'll resemble the tapered design that has been rumored. I'm kind of hoping against it since it would be awkward to hold in landscape orientation. Something that is curved in both directions would be neat. As long as it is symetrical. The problem with a "banana" shape is that it would no longer sit flat on a desk and that would bother me.

I'm pretty happy with the iPhone4/4S case. I kind of wish it was a bit more curved on the edges since I find the metal "mid-case" to be a bit sharp, not a cut you kind of sharp, but it could be more blunt and thus more comfortable in your hand. Think more pebble shaped with regard to the sides.
The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this argument is used as a red herring, and that there are other issues that need sorting out (involving money and control).
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I know a few people who felt Yoga sounded a bit "soft" (I know it doesn't have to be) but for those who want something a bit more physical you might want to look at pilates.
Update: the site is cleaned up and back up, we're just waiting for Google review.
Not all owners, to be sure. But a sizeable amount.
Instagram Keeps Getting Better and Better
Recently, Instagram released version 2.0 of their app.
In this update, they decided to completely re-write the camera function. Upon starting the camera up, you’ll notice some rich new features. Those include an auto tilt-shift feature, a new icon that fits beautifully in your mobile device’s homescreen, 4 great new photo filters, and many others. Now you may be thinking “Version 2.0? Shouldn’t that be a complete re-vamp of everything?”, but the answer really would be no. There really would have been no point in revamping the whole thing! I’ve never heard a single complaint about Instagram’s UI. Even people that don’t necessarily care for the app still can’t complain about the UI. I think that’s why they didn’t revamp the whole thing. Like MG of TechCrunch said in his blog post, “Why fix something that’s not broken?”
And that’s how I think Instagram got to where they are today. I absolutely love the fact that Instagram never took the “all at once” approach to their app. Some companies just decide to launch worldwide the first day, put every good idea they have into their app, and just hope for a good user response. With Instagram, they decided to add 1 or 2 awesome things in every new update, instead of throwing everything they have out on the table. That was the perfect approach. Little by little, that’s how they became the Instagram we know and love today.

Keep doing what you’re doing, guys. Congrats on all the success!
No ... who is on second.
It seems like, with most of the tech media, if they had called it a 5 it would have gone over better. The A5 processor in this thing is nothing to sneeze at. I am hopeful about the new antenna system, but will need to see it in action in a rural environment. Never mind the adding of Sprint and the price reduction on the 3GS and 4.

The screen is dense enough pixel wise, and consumers don't have to wait for new cases, bumpers, etc. since the iPhone 4 stuff works well. It is a good thing for consumers.

I am more and more convinced most of these stories were pre-written as soon as the 4S designation was found in iTunes. I am particularly down on All Things D and feel their reporting is pretty much useless.
What does kqueue give that epoll doesn't?

Note also that signalfd() can do something similar to your dispatch_source.
Ask HN Admins: Why are you censoring this?
I made a polite but slightly negative post concerning a YC company. It originally got enough votes in a short timespan that it should've appeared on the front page, but it didn't and was quickly killed.

Here is the original text:

Dear Mixpanel,
Please stop posting your job ads. The regular readers of HN are well aware that you are hiring from your (weekly?) posts and they are decreasing the site's SNR.

If you are simply trying to keep your post on the jobs page, is there a way to do that without dominating the site feed?

Also, now that you have kept us informed that you are trying to hire, what have your numbers been? How many applications have you had in response to each post? How many of those were junk, and how many did you follow up with?

Along with Google's cache link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073814
...they make a point of only spending the money they have.

Germany has the third-highest public debt in the world with only the fifteenth-highest population. Their debt is much higher as a percentage of GDP than the U.S. (83% vs. 62% according to the CIA world Factbook. [1]) They've spent plenty of money they don't have.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Crippled engineer builds voice-controlled USB robot arm for $55
Could be worse. Could be Windows desktop shortcuts. Fuzzy logic of target resolution? Now that's messy.

Symlinks may be ugly and/or dangerous relative to the original file system concept, but they solve problems. They are not "all good", but life would be worse without them. E.g. - application by application implementation of location aliases a la IIS virual directories (or whatever they called it) for web applications.
In a country where the GDP per capita is around $1300? You can play up the "market will solve all ills" all you like, but if everyone is too busy scrambling to get enough calories to get by then they probably don't have enough to buy the latest iPad.

Subsidized government programs exist because this is where the market fails and governments have a larger and more important mission than just maximizing profits and putting on fancy keynotes for drooling fans.
India launches $37 tablet India launches $37 tablet with Montreal firm
Work is being done in this direction, with mount and UID namespaces. The main concern is that allowing users to make these kinds of bind mounts may confuse legacy suid apps.
Thanks for the story, and congratulations on your success. You helped give me a better picture of how one goes about building social proof with the investor class.

We don't actually need funding, as we have successfully bootstrapped our business and are quite profitable. But we set up a profile on AL anyway, in case we ever do decide to shake the money tree to accelerate growth beyond what our cash flow permits, in the future. Naturally, we have 0 followers.

Interestingly, 42 Floors (http://angel.co/42-floors) has done the same thing, and they have managed 112 followers despite not seeking funding.
Fixing Ajax on Mobile Devices (with HTML5)
I love this in theory but in practice I find I have a lot more problems with accidental taps on my Nexus S than I do on the iPhone 4... often just from the base of my thumb wrapping around around and touching the screen edge at the lower corner when I'm using the phone one-handed.
We've seen this time and again with software versions. Software version 2 is worse than competitor version 5. Why? Well 2 < 5, ignoring that the competitor may have just named their first version 5.

If they had just called what was released yesterday an iPhone 5 there would have been much less disappointment. As far as a full redesign goes, I don't see a whole lot Apple can do. The height and width of the current phone seems near perfect. They could expand the screen a bit to be edge to edge, get rid of the physical home button, and taper the back (seems less likely now that they are using a dual antenna design) I guess.

I just don't see a much larger screen iPhone coming. I think Apple has already said if you want a large screen iPhone, buy an iPad.
I'm surprised nobody is pointing out similarity to Intel's very successful Tick-Tock release cycle - release a new architecture on tick and refine the process on tock

The benefits for Apple are manifold, but the two most obvious are:

1. Keep expectations sane - they can't release a radical new industrial design of superbly high quality every year.

2. Give customers on a 2 year contract predictable value rather than leaving them always waiting for the next awesome device
This is pretty cool. I hope someone develops a standard for this.

I imagine putting a QR code on my roof that points to a web service that could be interrogated to obtain information about the physical location. Then, processors could be built to automatically index geographical areas from satellite data.

$8500 is really steep, though. What would be the minimum size of the artifact, to reliably enable current satellite technology to read a URL-sized chuck of information?
On OSX you can use Cmd+` to switch between the windows of the active app. The Cmd+Tab behavior on OSX was annoying to me too when I first started using a Mac but now that I'm used to the Cmd+Tab and Cmd+` combo I actually prefer it to the way Alt+Tab works in Windows.
> This is like US starting a nuclear war with China because "they stole their jobs"

This is more than a bit of a stretch. Apple has indeed launched a new iPhone 4 successor on time, so I'm not sure where you're trying to go with your argument.

What indicates to you that Apple is using ALL of their financial resources to go after Samsung?
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Seems a little pricey. I'm not sure what dimensions would be visible from space (if that image is any indication, you need about 20x20 feet?). How much would it actually cost to print a weather-proof banner that size (and it doesn't have to all be on one sheet) - my guess a lot less than $8,500 + $200 "support" fee (whatever that is).
I think the reason there is no iPhone 5 is becoz the LTE / TD-LTE / WiMAX hybrid-chip is not yet ready. When iPhone 5 comes out it is gonna run on Verizon LTE, Sprint WiMAX and China Mobile TD-LTE networks.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Quote:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

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Apple actually has an embarrassingly straightforward implementation of a CSS3 clock on their ipod nano page:

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/
Most of these rumors are started by hedge funds with short positions in Apple.

1) Spread rumors about a product
2) Watch stock price go up
3) Wait for the actual product announcement
4) Short sale
5) Profit$$$

it happens everyday.
Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV
You should check out CodeGuard[1]. It is a great tool for issues just like this.

[1] https://www.codeguard.com/
MVVM in 5 Minutes (John Papa)
The technology (and engineers) behind Voice Control and Siri are completely different.
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adding OS X hard link discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80875/what-is-the-bash-co...
HTC Sense security bug, private data accessible to almost any app
Yep. I ignored the equity angle but it's a must stronger force in this whole charade.
Is he not already considered an all-time great? Honest question.
This is exactly what happens.

The iPad 3 was the most egregious example I've seen of this yet. John Gruber said it made sense for the iPad to be on a September release schedule (which actually makes no sense) based on no information whatsoever.

What followed was how the iPad 3 was coming, it had a retina display, the usual unverifiable tales from the supply chain, etc. In the end, unnamed sources said Apple decided to cancel it for a variety of reasons.

Not writing about a product that doesn't (and never) existed gets you zero pageviews. Writing about an Apple product gets you N page views. Writing about an unannounced product and then writing about it being scrapped, being ultimately the same as the first situation, gets you 2N page views.

The iPhone seems to be following a 2 year major release cycle. The 3GS was a relatively minor upgrade to the 3G (with faster CPU, etc) but it had basically the same design. You can make the same comparison from the 4 to the 4S. Next year's will probably have a major shift in outward appearance but that's just a guess.

For me, the upgrade is significant if you play games on your phone. I actually don't (I do on my iPad however). The faster shooting and better sensor are nice but not worth me upgrading I think.

I just wish so many people didn't fall prey to the obvious linkbaiting when it comes to Apple. This pattern constantly repeats itself. Any rational person knew the Fall iPad 3 was never going to happen the second the rumours started. You'll see a new iPad next March/April and probably an LTE iPhone 5 next summer or early Fall.
Now every Indian adolescent boy can watch 1080p porn in private.

Seriously, I hope this gets put to good use by schools for textbooks too.

Boys will be boys.
10 fact of weird human sex
I'm not exactly sure what's being invented here that doesn't exist already.
How many tech companies have you interviewed with? I've never seen one, big company or tiny startup, that doesn't ask you to write code by hand in the interview.
How many people have tried using Siri? Until it's actually in our hands and put to the test in real world situations, it's hard for anyone to make any claims about how well it works.

It could be reliable, useful and effective; it could be sometimes useful given the right environments and inputs; it could be a complete flop. No one outside of Apple knows right now.
Why you need to play Understand Games.
Oh God I can't imagine how much memory something like that would take up.
//In a country where the GDP per capita is around $1300? You can play up the "market will solve all ills" all you like..........governments have a larger and more important mission than ....

GDP per capita is around $1300 precisely because the governmnet always felt it had a LARGER and MORE important mission than (simply doing their job with no corruption). And these larger and more important missions almost always end up channeling tax payer's money into politicians via some crazy project like this
Siri 2011 = Knowledge Navigator 1987