skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are just my thoughts, I wasn't attacking you. I was hoping for a refutation of my argument, if you can spare the time.

BTW: arguably, a cell phones are already comparable in performance to netbooks: my old eee PC has a 900MHz celeron (though less powerful than today's netbooks); the samsung galaxy 2 has a dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9, and the Transformer Prime has a quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A9 (though that's a tablet, not a cell phone)

EDIT I should point out we're on the same side: I've said what you say (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014578), and I submitted the present story.
I'm not sure what you mean. I am aware that not all open source is written by unpaid volunteers but that doesn't address my central point.

If the industry demands that everyone write code, be it OSS, personal or just random junk code because they HAVE to, then github/bitbucket/launchpad/sourceforge/etc plus individual portfolios will see an inflation of sorts in code written, some of it good, most of it bad or mediocre. Let's just keep off-hours code as a bonus and not hold it against someone if it is not there. Keep fun-coding for fun! :D

Wouldn't you rather have people contribute to an OSS project because they want to, not because they feel compelled to?
Oh no, 0.0001% of all tablets sold this year may end up boot locked due to this. Assuming there's nothing more to the story. Let's panic.
Fuck no. Why should we penalize ourselves because they are idiots? It makes no sense whatsoever.
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Limiting the growth of a disruptive competitor isn't any motivation to support this bill. i.e. the entire internet

on the internet means not bumping ratings
Sadly, I think the retirement age would like shift along as well.
They could at least disable logins for it and block any further emails from going out.
Just because Webkit is open source and the W3C publish a standard doesn't mean that everything is better this time - nobody thought IE would stagnate in its heyday.

Well it's better in one important way: the browser makers don't try to dictate behavior of other browsers. Instead of fighting, they put their own behavior in a namespace until they agree on an open standard. Then they can drop the prefixes.
Thanks, you are correct!
It's basically a URI that contains the torrent hash enabling a client to find peers through a decentralized network such as DHT instead of requiring a tracker. I believe you can append trackers and other info to the URI as well, but I'm not sure about that.
Oh I see. Think how much more they can achieve with the freedom and time they have, of course to each of these points there are disadvantages. But for those that are truly self directed and succeeded on their own accord this won't matter. I think college isn't for everyone and for those it is for, it may be very valuable.

Some require this security and mentorship more than others but those that do it will allow them to learn and succeed faster. A number of them may not have realised their full potential.

It's a tough one, it could be unfair to read a bio or look at the overall fellowship and just presume each of the fellows are in the same situation and making an opinion on the fellowship before we see how far they go and study each fellow individually.

Many will get a lot out of it, which is the important part. Others may not have needed it but it will allow them to do what they want.

We tend to leave anything complicated out of our stories because it's just easier to understand. It's hard to judge anyone or a collection of people on these brief stories. Look at startups like Pinterest which waited two years before 'Overnight success'.
The article is a blog post about a blog post about a blog post.

The Windows 8 hardware certification requirements comprise three documents and more than 1000 pages. They are available here [warning license agreement required]:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/hh748188
I wonder about unschooling. I went though a more traditional home school experience 20 years ago that basically consisted of my reading all the traditional textbooks in something like 2-4 hours a day over the first 2-3 months, a few enrichment activity's like field trips and then keeping myself entertained the rest of the time. I learned a lot of things out of curiosity and boredom, but I clearly missed a few basic areas of from the traditional school experience. Primarily grammar, spelling, rote history, and I avoided taking any tests outside of annual state mandated standardized tests.

So, I can see how things might work out with even less direction, but it seems like most people would miss out on some of the basics. I mean is it really an issue to say, here is the 5th grade history textbook you should probably read at some time in the next 6 months? Or even go to enough Shakespeare's plays that the language stops seeming strange and you can fall down laughing watching ask you like it?
I think that Twitter search is a real missed opportunity, I was hoping that Google with all their resources would be able to capitalize on it, but looks like Twitter isn't playing along.

I did a university project (retreave.com) which used the streaming API to receive tweets, index the pages they linked to, and then provide a lucene based search engine for it. It's really cool to search for say 'design books' and see what your twitter network has reccomended that relates to it (and of course, the search doesn't just search the tweet text, but the page text as well). It ranked results based on social stature in addition to relevance (ie a link tweeted by lots of people is higher ranked)

Unfortunately the User Streams API only scales to a few users, and I've been waiting for 9 months for an invite to the Site Streams Beta, but looks like they don't want me to make their search useful either.
From my experience social knowledge gained at school doesn't map very well to the real world. In every environment I've been in (except for my first part time job) the social interaction was vastly different from what I experienced in school.
"Humanity benefits immensely from the periodic refreshing of the old guard."

Prove it to be a net gain, when the negative side of the equation is the death of billions.

You can make anything look good by considering only the positives, or vice versa, but it's no way to make decisions.
It appears that ARM devices can fallover to legacy BIOS mode to support non UEFI OS's.

From page 109 of windows8-hardware-cert-requirements-system.pdf:

System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFIDefaultBoot

Target Feature: System.Fundamentals.Firmware

Title: All client systems must be able to boot into UEFI
boot mode and attempt to boot into this
mode by default

Applicable OS Versions:
 Windows 8 Client x86
 Windows 8 Client x64
 Windows 8 Client ARM
 Windows 8 Server x64
 Windows Server 2008 Release 2 x64

Description:
The System firmware must be able to achieve UEFI mode
boot by default. Such a system may also
support fallback to legacy BIOS mode boot for deploying
OS images which do not support UEFI, if the
user explicitly selects that option in the pre-boot UEFI BIOS menu.
This requirement is If Implemented for Server systems and applies
only if a Server system is UEFI capable.
For the purposes of this argument, they do. Apple is the client; they buy the manufacturing.

Whereas with Microsoft, the factories are the clients of Microsoft OS's.
No Tron references?
Not to mention the XBox.
According to the article, "For non-ARM systems, Microsoft requires that Custom Mode be enabled." It seems incredibly likely that OEMs will "go out of their way to provide a different model with a differently implemented UEFI."

I'd imagine it does matter which architecture was being discussed.
Humanity peaks.
Pros and cons of node.js over ejabberd for chatwindow.com?
we are building a live video broadcast and group chat app which lets users share the live video over the url and be able to group chat with thousands of people clicking on that url.

We are currently using Flex NetGroups but doesn't work well with USB stick slow internet connection. The video comes in real time and text messages are delayed a lot to be really useful. So, planning to use a messaging system that works very well with low bandwidth connections and is scalable.

Two options we are considering are ejabbered and node.js - which one will be better and why?

Thank you
Rajan Chandi
It's not about forcing companies to license their software; it's about forcing companies to allow unlocking of the bootloader, thus forcing them to compete on features rather than antifeatures (consumer lock-in).

Locked bootloaders on general purpose computing devices are bad news for consumers and for innovation in general. Just imagine how the PC landscape would have evolved without clones. I'd be more than happy to see government intervention in cases like these.
The difference between private equity and venture capital
Direct link to the pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/c2uH1Byj

I think this is a copycat or a hanger-on. The rhetoric doesn't seem as aggressive and self-important as the summer's lulzsec messages. It's gone from being like "We have proven you suck and should cease existing" to "Hey, I hacked some sites. Check it out."
I know I'm being bitter and jaded, but I assume they're just gonna put it on the shelf for a few months, hope everyone forgets about it and then try to get it through quietly attached to some other giant spending bill or something.
> Sorry, that war was fought and lost won with the iPhone and iPad.

No, not really. There's still a long way to go.

And Microsoft's revenue sharing model vs Apple's doesn't have much to do with that.
It seams to me this strategy will hit high and low. For exceptional people, it will produce the best possible results. For those of us less elite, it would produced worse results than traditional schooling.
ARM laptops and netbooks and PCs won't run x86 apps, so I fail to see how MS's penetration will allow them to block out competing operating systems.

The ability to run x86 apps is irrelevant. Full-fledged Linux desktop distributions have been available for ARM desktops, laptops, nettops, etc. for a long time. Microsoft is entering this existing market with a product that anticompetitively excludes Linux from the market by preventing users from upgrading their OS (as has been traditionally available on Microsoft-targeted computing platforms) through the same kind of license agreements with OEMs that got them into trouble with Be.

Their strategy seems to be to subsidize the licensing cost of the OS by selling Metro apps from the Windows Marketplace. This model will get into trouble if the user loads Android on it. Anyway this is the same model that Amazon, B&N and to some extent Apple uses.

It is not the responsibility of users and OS vendors to preserve the flawed business model of their competitors. Microsoft's competitors shouldn't be forced out of the operating system market just because Microsoft wants to sell its own licenses below "cost" (whatever that means for something that has virtually no cost to duplicate).
Yes, I remember in my first real job, even though it was a crappy job, I was ecstatic about the fact that, with very few exceptions people were basically polite. There was no outright bullying. Is this adult life? I thought. Great!
I seriously doubt that legacy BIOS will support ARM.
Can the past predict the future?
I Guess That Zynga Acupuncture Ain’t So Bad After All
It is. The biggest ISPs in the US (like Time Warner Cable and Comcast) also own media properties.

Raising transactional costs for new sites is good for them. It keeps the media properties more valuable, and it raises the percentage of their traffic they can monetize. Roughly the same payoff as in a non-net neutrality world.
It's anti-consumer. Who cares if it's legal?
I'm really interested in hearing how people think this problem should be fixed, since Google having such a large market share is necessarily a bad thing. I see a lot of criticism, but no solution offering. But it's implied in all the anti-Google comments that either Google needs to stop making its product better, or it needs to be forcefully hampered by the government. Is this a correct assessment? If not, what are the alternatives?
How does the distribution of traffic to the homepages look? One thing search engines do is search for new information, answers to questions and the like. Another thing they do is spell-corrected dns.

Since stackexchange is mostly targeted at the former, I'd expect your numbers to be skewed in interesting ways, which you could partially correct by looking at homepage visits to capture the latter use. (This is a big confounding variable whenever people try to measure comparative statistics between search engines. I've heard that Yahoo and Bing get many more one-word searches than Google, which are likely to be of the spell-corrected dns kind.)
Ask HN: professional gmail alternatives
Dear HN,

A few days ago, some incident happened (I won't go into details) and my gmail account got suspended. It's back for now, but I want to move out.

Free won't do it for me anymore. I want something reliable. I'd rather pay for an email provider rather than depend on google. I can't afford to have my main email in the hands of a provider who reserves the right to suspend my account any time for any reason without even warning me first.

Paypal, and my bank, communicate with me through email. Also, I put my email on my resume. You get the idea. Of course, having an email provider I can rely on is very important.

Any recommendations?

Of course, it has be ajaxy and all that cool stuff.
inline-block exists in IE6/7 it just works a bit differently. It doesn't apply to elements that are display:block by default. However, it works quite well on span and other inline elements.
"If anything, Microsoft is better in the sense that it offers more share of the app cost to the developers and also doesn't charge tithes like Apple does on content."

These are just value propositions from an also ran.

Apple takes a cut on sales because that's what store's do. If I sell cereal to a supermarket and you walk in and buy a box, the store does not give me all of that money. Why? Because the store worked hard to get that customer to walk in. Similarly Apple worked hard to make ITMS and App Store work, bringing millions of customers to the apps and music. And no one calls the supermarket's cut a tithe either.

Why support MS because they came later, copied the successful innovation and undercut it by a few %? Supporting the company doing the innovating seems like a better path to incentivizing other companies to innovate new products and markets instead of just copying what's successful.
Google App Engine More JPA Gotchas
I hate to be that guy, but are you sure you don't have adblock on? I'm logged in, tried encrypted.google.com, and saw the expected ad results for all of those queries.
How about you try iOS where you can't even install a competing browser, forget about one being bundled. Why is that legal?

Because Windows was deemed a monopoly in the late 1990s. Since Win32 programs won't even run on ARM tablets, I fail to see how what you point out is relevant at all.

>Also, what you're suggesting with "The OEM can have two versions of every tablet/phone" places the costs on the OEM, where margins are razor thin. Be fair - put the burden on Microsoft to stop creating artificial barriers to entry.

There are a zillion tablets out that run Android and some of them can run Ubuntu too. What artificial barriers to entry are you talking about? OEMs needn't even pay a licensing fee unlike with Windows, thus they can be cheaper. Microsoft is already burdened by that.
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How I went from idea to launch in 3 months (after my first startup failed)
Many Linux operating systems have been fully operation on ARM for some time.

Besides, this issue is much larger. What happens when Windows 9 comes out and is signed with a different set of keys. Obsolescence is now even easier for OEMs and Microsoft to "let" happen.
Implementing Multi-tenancy On Google App Engine
The activity indicator is very intrusive. Why not make it small and place it below the last item?
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And there are no contact details, so we can't even tell them that their page is broken.

edit: Taking a gamble on emailing the registrant.
Developmentalism - A Dangerous and Deadly Failure You Probably Agree With
Samsung's Smart Window
The people that "deserved ridicule when their fantasy world doesn't pan out" are the paranoid folks that claimed that MS is banning booting Linux on PCs. Microsoft updated the requirements so that OEMs are REQUIRED to provide an option to disable secure boot on PCs. Here we are talking about Post-PC devices that won't even run the legacy x86 code that Windows has a dominance in.
TextExt.js - jQuery plugin for modular input boxes
No, they don't. Be wary. I tried to use btrfs in raid10 (data and metadata) mode for my latest array of large disks (4x 2TB WD Caviar Blacks); 70 GB in copying data from my old md array, I got a kernel OOPS. This was with very recent btrfs code -- Fedora 16 with a 3.1.x kernel and btrfs-progs-0.19-16.fc16. It's simply not ready.
I see what you're saying but it isn't that big a deal to me. The way to avoid that though is not to overlap the tabs. The author should have provided a second row without overlap as an additional example.
I may be missing something, but it doesn't sound like an OEM is prevented from including additional keys, from say cannonical and redhat, or even simply an OEM key that is used to sign a generic boot loader like grub.
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Fast Market growth favors big players.

The current OS landscape has little to do with the size of the players, and everything to do with back-room deals between Microsoft and OEMs to e.g. prevent OEMs from loading BeOS on their systems.
Are you talking about a ViewPager?

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-vi...
Can you give an example of a calculation you would have liked to do in a spreadsheet with conditional loops?
It's not that simple to hire. They acquired a team specialized in geolocation that worked together for a while. Might be worth its weight in gold.
New delete option when using Google Sync on iOS devices
Dead man in mortuary impregnates woman
you're right jez, I guess I couldn't resist the temptation of a catchy title, just changed it to: First steps with Scala, a functional alternative to bash scripts… I think it's more appropriate: http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/first-steps-with-s...
This is incredibly harsh. And wonderful. I'm so tired of people soft-pedaling their ideas. Make a statement and stand by it. Stand tall and be ready to be knocked down if you're wrong.
"Here we are talking about Post-PC devices"

Oh, so we are only talking about the proclaimed future of personal computing then? I guess it's perfectly fine then!

No. Anti-consumerism deserves condemnation, no matter how you try to spin it.
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It bothers me.

Our reservations about Apple should mirror those about Microsoft. Good design and UX are not excuses to be complacent. I highly suggest watching Cory Doctorow's recent 28c3 talk on "The Coming War on General Computation": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
I unschooled (was unschooled?) from my sophomore year of high school through college. That's, without a doubt, hugely different from doing it through elementary school I think, but I'm happy to answer any questions.
Show HN. Pinterest on steroids
You can better setup a mail server for yourself.
>Apple takes a cut on sales because that's what store's do. If I sell cereal to a supermarket and you walk in and buy a box, the store does not give me all of that money. Why? Because the store worked hard to get that customer to walk in. Similarly Apple worked hard to make ITMS and App Store work, bringing millions of customers to the apps and music. And no one calls the supermarket's cut a tithe either.

The tithe reference is to the content, not the cut of the cost of an app, which Apple neither hosts nor delivers, but takes a 30% cut of.

Eg. http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

Also, why can't your argument extend to ISPs? They have done all the hard work getting the customer, why shouldn't they be able to charge YouTube for allowing them to show ads to their customers?
You seem to effectively communicate, so I am assuming it wasn't a struggle to patch those holes?

We home education, but it isn't full on unschool here either. There will be definite gaps, but the general assumption that I have made is filling those gaps won't be a terrific struggle. It is always interesting to us to hear first hand accounts.
I wonder if the singularity happens like they say, and we can upload our minds into the computer, if we can send a slow probe to another star with a receiving dish and by the time it gets there, we can just beam our consciousnesses there, with maybe enough know-how to roll up an entirely new world with minimal resources.
Postfix keeps running after fatal error
I will! Thanks! I assume that's new in ICS?
Yea, it's pretty much dead. Android support has been nonexistant for at least 6 months now. They finally closed the beta mailing list because there were people asking about the status of it.
Ha, that's why I love HN!
You learn the same things in prison, why don't we just put kids in prison for a few years?
>When I buy laptop, I am buying a computer. Full stop. If the vendor wants to bundle an OS, great, but I expect to be able to change it.

Maybe it's time to change your expectations? Why is Microsoft liable for your expectations? Why not only buy laptops that meet your expectations?

>It's far more offensive not to be able to run Linux on a mainstream laptop than not to be able to run Windows on an iPad.

ARM laptops are nowhere close to mainstream. They cannot run any Win32 applications. MS is starting from zero here.
This is a misconception. None of these social situations are unique to a school environment. It can be argued that you can actually increase the opportunities for social engagement outside of the confines of school.
Any good alternative to SimpleGeo? Is Factual even the same?
Is it too much to ask to read the linked article? Please.

>For non-ARM systems, Microsoft requires that Custom Mode be enabled
Guidelines are not tutorials. This might not be what you wanted, but this is what a design guidelines document looks like.
Designers, managers, or any other project stakeholders. Many of whom may have the same understanding as customers.
You must not have grown up in the US. They do, it's just called "middle school".
Chrome asks you to choose a default search engine when you install it. What more can they do?
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No, you're working at a bad company.
I started with no linking it, after few searches, however deficient they might have been, I kind of like this.

I think people who complain about affiliate code just feel sorry they didn't come up with something like this.

I would put free and commercial resources in separate columns or just color them differently and make sure there are both of them present.

Good luck.
By that standard, what's not a dead-end job? Today you develop software, tomorrow you... develop more software?
And seriously .Net is a must