skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not 8600M, but 9600M GT.

Also, the screen is not only bigger, but much much higher quality in the MBP.

No one is mentioning the MBA?
Why do people change titles? If you read the article, you'd realise that he's explaining why they weren't rejected, it was the work of dodgy journalism further hyped by the blogosphere.
This is kind of an interesting side effect of a closed software market. Plugins don't really exist, because its difficult to control the distribution of programs that run programs. (And its turtles allll the way down.)
Even compilation is mostly IO bound. I'd be interested in an off-the-shelf benchmark on compiling Firefox, MB vs. MBP. I haven't seen one. Regardless, you're paying a lot for what may be a nominal difference; you could spend that money better.
Uhm, no. California, Oregon and Washinton (to name a few) are not in dire srtraights, yet are all pro-Obama.
solution to make this less painful if it happens to you: setup a script (i have a python script) that uses fetchmail to pull your gmail everyday after a certain time (i use 9pm since most of my emailing is finished after 9pm).

worst case scenario you lose 24 hours of emails.
the cost of coming up with a good idea (or what you think is one) is very cheap/near nothing (not to mention it will change as time goes on). the cost of good skills, assets, team members, connections, and so on is much higher in terms of both time and resources
There's 4 at the moment:

* The super thin, relatively expensive, stylish one that's limited and hard to expand. (Air)

* The super cheap, relatively unstylish white all-purpose machine. (Original Macbook)

* The cheap, flashy, glassy new one. (Macbook)

* The expensive, flashy, glassy new one with the big screen. (Macbook Pro).
I thought that 3d printing was fairly limited in terms of materials. but if you use the 3d printing as just the first step from which to create a mold you can make metal objects too! this is great
somehow I think I know you ;)
oh, hi!

a pity you went to the dark side ;)
Unless Tom Murray has significantly changed his opinion in the last few months, I think this is a major oversimplification, if not obfuscation, of his argument. I mean, half the article is devoted to a "Mr. Fish," who as far as I can tell, is just another commentator that has nothing to do with the book. The reviewer clearly dislikes this book (as well as "The Bell Curve"), and I can't help but be put off by the disjointed organization of the article.

For instance, I think this review misses a point of Murray's that I consider important. In an article I read by Murray in the American last month [http://www.american.com/archive/2008/september-october-magaz...], his idea seems to be that core knowledge, the kind of things that we as a culture need to know, like basic American history, geography, cultural literacy, science, etc, should be taught at a much earlier age, in the K-8 curriculum, and not wait until college. He said that the average student needs to know much more about the above fields than they know now, and so it should be taught earlier, so that most people don't need a four-year college education in order to have the core knowledge necessary in a modern society.
In 2008, does anything use the ExpressCard port that you care about? Isn't it basically obsolete?

You'd say the same about Firewire --- except:

* Losing Firewire also costs you "target disk mode", which lets you mount another Mac as an otherwise inert external hard drive, which is hugely helpful for backing up and restoring machines.

* Firewire is the standard remote debugging interface for the Windows kernel, and is an all-around great debugging interface (Firewire itself is basically nothing but a network protocol hooked directly up to a DMA engine); there's no perfect replacement for it that I know of.
Strongly advise rebuilding Ruby (or for that matter Python) yourself. You should be developing on a build of your runtime that you understand; for both Ruby and Python, I've run into incredibly annoying problems in the built-in versions.
Fine, "in general". There are more mccain states in places where income has gone up, and so on.

Actually, I just graphed it, and correlation is super weak. http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blahvs9.gif (Stupid Google Docs wouldn't play nice with the graph, so I had to use Excel. Sorry Web 2.0)
Actually only the jewelry example used 3D printing as an intermediary step. The art example was crafted in metal from the start. plastic, ceramics, even bone are now "printable". The next big leap will be the ability to have multiple materials printed at one time, so you could get something like a toothbrush that is part plastic and part rubber.
Apple doesn't sell a laptop with anything less than a Core 2 Duo at this point. Having burned through at least 4 Macbooks in the last couple years, I wouldn't buy one used or refurbed.
on this thread, i'm not so sure about that :) never knew you lurked here.
Right, but the question posed above was "I'd like to see the lowest funded startups". I'm sure there are some folks living in dorms or with the parents and using university computers for their servers. Starting up is essentially "free" in that case, modulo time.

Come to think of it, doesn't this describe Google for the first 2 years of its existence?
Right, but they have variable costs that are close to zero, i.e. the marginal cost of servicing one extra customer is zero. (In practice, it's a bit more than that - you're looking at fractions of a cent for bandwidth, servers, ops people to maintain those servers, etc.) I worked it out for my startup, based on previous websites that have gotten traffic, and it came to something like $1/month/200 registered users, or $0.05 CPM.

Their fixed costs are high, but usually VCs invest to pay those fixed costs, after the startup has already started getting traction.
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ExpressCard is obsolete, and I don't care about it. That's just a list of the differences between MB and MBP.

It's only useful if you have an old EVDO/3G card that relies on ExpressCard.
Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability to turn a corner
Happened to me twice this (read: last) month. I'm beginning to think that I shouldn't rely solely on GMail.
Windows 7 hands on - Impressive at every turn
Russell Beattie was Right, the Mobile Web is Dead
Not python, but simple and works great: http://subethasmtp.tigris.org/
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The old 17-inch Macbook Pro is still available.
The cheap one does not have VT support on the CPU which means that virtual machines run much slower than on the CPUs that do have VT where they run at native or near native speeds (depending on the VM software you use).

This becomes particularly important if you want to run a virtual Windows under heavy load or run many virtual machines.
the plus side is that you get your foot in the door; the minus side is that it sucks, you won't have any autonomy or creativity, and if twitter never really makes anything happen you are really, really fucked.

that being said, i have a strong intuition that twitter will succeed and this would be a great way to get some equity. but at employee count=25...
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Did not know that. See? It is more complicated than Matt Maroon said.
Is there a standard format for storing email? I would like to archive all my mail using Gmail's IMAP feature, but what happens when I want to find something in 30 years? For example, I'd think that an Outlook data file would not be a good choice.
Speaking as someone who has actually worked on a hypervisor on VT-x on a 1st-gen MB, I call totally unforeseeable bullshit on you. Sucks to be you! ;)

In fact, every Intel Mac runs at least Intel Core, and VT-x very slightly predates Core (you can get P4 parts that have it). It is in fact slightly easier to run a hypervisor on the original Core, and thus the first-gen Macbook, because the Core 2 Duo runs userland in 64 bit mode and the kernel in emulated 32 bit mode, and that's a gross oversimplification made as a small mercy.

In any case, every Macbook sold today --- even the cheapest one --- runs at least Core 2 Duo, which includes not only VT-x but also the advanced I/O stuff Intel did to make TLB flushes not kill performance.

Long story short: you can't buy a Macbook that doesn't do just fine with Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
I used to use Linux mailspools, or whatever, but I really don't know nowadays what's cool. I just use both the Vista email client and Gmail. When one of them fails, I'll just upgrade/try another one.

Data preservation is hard.
I don't understand why they have advertised this position given the network of people they know, talent they already have access to, and lists of exceptional that must be referred or apply all the time.

I hope they find that hidden rough diamond. It will be very interesting to see the person that is taken on this position and how they fare.
The Tivo Box Is Dead. Long Live Tivo.
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Really needs to link to debugbar and setting up a JS debugger.

Its pretty easy to guess what its going to render as in IE (...broken!), but its pretty hard to figure out how to get it render right.
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Hmmm. Thanks... but why do I need someone to edit my stuff? I'm not scared of putting myself out there. Even with unfinished thoughts. I can handle the comments. How else is anybody going to learn and grow? What does HN submission quality mean? It says it right there in the news guidelines: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Sounds about right to me. HN is not the NYT. I'm just a hacker trying to figure stuff out.
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its pretty simple really. Those people for whom trickle down economics didn't work are looking to vote out those people responsible.
From the article:

"The more people who go to college, the more stigmatizing the failure to complete college becomes."

I think Mr. Murray needs to lighten up a little. One way in which American culture excels over many others, is in our embrace of failure. If you want to try to go to college, and end up failing, so what? Do something else. You're still in your early 20s.

Certainly, there is the issue of going into heavy debt in a failed attempt at a college education. But that is different from people thinking less of you for having tried something and failed.

People reading Hacker News should empathize with this sentiment more than most, I think.
Murray is an old school ivory tower academic who is out of date. From my understanding I feel that his theories rely too much on standardized tests, which many other studies over the years have shown that the only thing they really predict is how well someone does in academia; not beyond it
Java has always had challenges ont he desktop, but I don't agree with a lot of your assertions.

> ..users will have to deal with 100MB+ downloads

I've never seen a JRE download that big. At most it's around 25Mb, although in practice you can get it a lot smaller than that (sub 10Mb for the minimal install afaik).

> ..One project I want to do for myself is a usable Del.icio.us client for OSX.

Java is already shipped on every copy of OS X - so zero download in that case. The startup time seems just fine. I'm using Apache JMeter right now and the startup time seems about the same as any other app I use.
Even if twitter fails, you will still have a a network of people/friends/contacts and experience that will be invaluable to you.

Even at employee #25+, given a significant rise in twitters value, you will still do well (e.g. the first employees at other services such as Amazon/Ebay/Paypal/other, which engaged in alternate or disruptive technology in thier time, did very well).

Beside all that, it is much more fun to do things that can fail and walk a differnt path.
yeah I didn't make the cut, and thats where it ended up in my spam!
replicatorblog, I'm a 2D/3D animator - shoot me an email if you would like me to set you up with some talented modelers. Contact info in my profile.
Get a maxed out 13-inch macbook pro! it will run for years with no problems. And you won't get pissed off ;P
Go for the refurb's from the apple store... cheaper and through more testing than your normal mac
I've been using a modification of this one for a few years.

- I placed the braces, brackets and parens under the same fingers in either hand.

- I placed 9 at the left of 7, for consistence.

- I switched shift position of colon and semicolon (I used to write a lot of Python in vim at the time).

- Some other minor changes.

This is how it looks like:

Unshifted:

${[(*+!=)]}%#
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Shifted:

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One caveat to this is that Apple frequently puts something at or near bottom of a range, particularly a new range, that is especially crippled. The first instance of this (Mac LC) is old enough to vote. Check out http://lowendmac.com/roadapples/worst.html to get a feel for it.

Things to look for in the order I personally prefer: maximum RAM capacity (prefer high), processor cache size (prefer large, generally), processor multiplier (prefer low), RAM speed (prefer high), processor clock speed (prefer high)

If you don't want to pour over Intel CPU specs, I'd just pick something in the 35th percentile of price and performance. Don't worry about amount of RAM pre-installed or any parameters of the hard drive. If the computer begins to run slow, pay a buddy to find a deal on Mac compatible ram and buy the largest amount your system will use. Keep regular backups. When the hard drive dies pay the same buddy to research the largest and fastest disk that uses less than or equal to the number of watts your current disk does (thermal issues make higher power/heat drives risky).

This is slightly simplified but should give you a system that has the most upgrade potential to protect your investment.
Anything that can be expressed in terms of inputs and outputs, can, conceivably, be codified into a computer program. Given enough time, the hardware time required to run any program shrinks to nil.

I foresee a future where a computer scans you, and prints out your ideal career. Then a beautiful one-eyed woman puts a chip in your hand that permanently locks you into that career. The motto: "You gotta do what you gotta do."

I'm off. Gotta deliver a pizza to I. C. Wiener.
Chris,

Amazing work, ill be in touch.
The Macbook and the Macbook Pro share the same microarchitecture. They have the same memory limits. It's hard to make a case between the two on "expandability".
"... This is the same Charles Murray who was co-author of the even more controversial 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” which argued not only that I.Q. was genetically determined but that it amounted to destiny ..."

The sad thing is, this statement is sometimes true (but not as much as Murry would suggest). When I was young, down the street lived a big kid, Kenny was his name. He was never really allowed out like the other kids. But I do remember when I visited his house once he had the largest box of cars I'd ever seen. I remember asking my mum if he could come out to my house some time and possibly bring some toys. Only to be promptly told no. Why? Well he's different and has trouble learning and goes to a special school.

But why?

Surely he could take a book and learn as much as he wanted? No was the reply... Never. I remember balling my eyes out hearing this as I couldn't understand why he couldn't just pick a book up and learn as I was at school. Of course this didn't stop Kenny playing Basketball for Australia or numerous other achievements. The reason why Murray is wrong is this is an extreme. Not everyone has the intellectual disability that
crippled Kenny's ability to learn and therefore if they want to learn new things all the stops should be pulled out if they show the inclination. The ability to learn is a form of emancipation.

"... the others are incapable of doing college-level work — and those who do should study a curriculum heavy on the great books, so they can become moral and ethical mandarins and wisely run the country for the rest of us. ..."

China has this sort of approach and I'll give you an example of the kind of screwed up problems it can cause. Australia has a large quantity of super fine Merino wool. It's the material that all the best suits are woven from and has some unique properties that make it ideal for high-end garments. But it's expensive. So the Chinese decided that investment was one way to go ~ http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2006/s1664831.htm So they invested some money in an existing Merino Sheep-Station with the intention of growing the wool then shipping the clipped wool to China thus saving money. From clip to yarn would be all Chinese. But running a farm tested their approach to tackling things - their bias for groups of "elites" who are primarily tertiary educated instructing a greater mass of ill-educated.

Running a farm is difficult anywhere. Not having any local expertise or understanding of the local conditions as well as a group of people that could be trained or seek training on the latest techniques but could also put this training into practice turned out to be fatal. The farm failed. The highly educated couldn't translate their theory into practice. The lesser educated couldn't be show how.

What was missing was the broad spectrum of skills and intelligence, something what we class as tradesman or technicians. We severely underestimate the quality and expertise of our tradespeople and technicians.
I would suggest signing up for multiple gmail accounts to spread the risk a little. (a bit like how u should be doing with banks accts atm).

I have about 6-7 gmail accounts. I have FF, IE, Safari, Chrome and Opera installed to manage them all as one browser can only store one gmail cookie at a time.
Or, if we wanted to avoid simplistic partisan rhetoric, we might say that poor economic conditions tend to cause voters to favor the non-incumbent party.
Completely off topic, but is the founder of slideshare a member here? There's no reason I should have to register an account in order to download the slides that I can already view as an unregistered user.
The utility of a consistent username across sites that have them visible (usernames are obviously more useful at flickr than at your bank, outside of ease of remembering) is mitigated by content aggregation sites like friendfeed. Once I've added a service to my "Me" listing at friendfeed, it becomes authenticated to my identity, no matter what the exact username is.
Google would be more responsive if we were tithing.
the trouble with the big pipe theory ..personally I'm living in hope it turns up one morning..is most everybody LIKE the leaks twists and bends, believing rightly or wrongly, taking time's their insurance policy (albeit a cracked Crystal ball) www.peterbainbridge.com
"... Essentially, you should be overqualified to be an assistant, but not have a problem doing assistant-like tasks ..."

Startup founder qualities.

"... People person with tact and diplomatic instincts ..."

Qualities not usually found in hackers.
This is the difference between living life for self-indulgence and personal gain verses when you see a need to fill that need. I don't have to be very smart to see a million dollar house vs a shack the size of my bathroom. Just because his father left is no reason to abandon the rest of your family and especially when you have made money from them by writing a book. He is ultra-conservative in that when you fail there should be no one to lift you up except yourself. Myself on the other hand when I see family members in need I do my best to help them out. My wife volunteers in a classrom at a school in a very poor neighborhood. We do other things to help people out as well. Obama says the rich should spread the wealth, he is rich he should look in the mirror when saying those words.
I think Wikipedia is a successful collaborative site because there's much less room for people to argue over simple, declarative text than any other medium (though of course they do argue, all the time). The arguments that could be raised over the editing of a collaborative documentary are much less cut and dry.

Also, the density of something like video make it much harder to review changes. If someone moves around a few scenes and in the process splices in still frames of porn, how is anyone going to know without carefully viewing every frame of changed video? Short of someone creating a very sophisticated diff viewer for video, that would have to happen for every single change that's committed. It would become much harder to differentiate between real changes and blatant vandalism, which would inevitably drag down the quality of the videos produced.
I saw Charles Murray debate in a "panel of experts" style discussion once. He was extremely intelligent and generous to his opponents' ideas. For that reason, I usually listen to his arguments carefully when he makes them. I know he would listen to mine.
I guess there's my answer. Thanks!
Does it let me claim my name and auto register said name to each site?

A new form of Open ID! Visual and lazy!
"At Amherst David perfected the style he would wear for the rest of his life"

When I got to this I realized I was reading the wrong magazine's article about him.
Did they just not remove the creator of Twitter .. possibly get rid of him?

Maybe this is a coy way to bring him back on?
Could you write up a tutorial on how to do that? Getmail also looks promising but the config section of it's documentation is like 12 pages long. I just want to backup Gmail, dude.
This is ironic, but...Google it :)

Also getmail is easy to install with MacPorts.
Gmail Manager is your friend ;)
Changing titles is generally frowned upon, but in this case the original title is targeted at people who already know some background on the Opera/iPhone story. I don't think the change is inaccurate; he does explain why the application was rejected (breaking rule 3.3.2).
What you can't say

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html
As a Macbook owner I had to admit the Toshiba Protege latest ultraportable leaves it biting the dust. The current Macbooks look a decade older. Compare it with the Macbook Air:
- Weight 1kg (vs 1.35kg)
- Slim (even more)
- 3G modem built in.
- It has a DVD player.
- Removable battery.
Apple needs to catch up fast or they are going to loose on this one. Unless something changes, next year I'll be buying my first Toshiba. Apple can't charge prime and under-deliver.

Oh, and asking to pay full price on new OS version that came out only three months after laptop purchase didn't help. This is probably bye bye Mac for me, unless something major changes.
Interesting idea to hurt Prop 8
I'm no expert, but screw ad support for this app. You're not going to get enough page views and in order to get targeted information you have to ask a lot for a lot of intrusive information up front.

You can provide free long distance? A lot of people would love to use this. But don't make it free. Make it, I don't know, $4.99/mo. Makes the whole thing seem more legit and you solve the money issue. And you can hire a designer ;)

Good luck --
Great, but what about all the people who don't use Hacker News?
better, you can have different profiles on Firefox for each of the Gmail accounts and open the corresponding ones when required..i keep a different account for my adsense and when i want to check the reports, i use that particular user profile in Firefox..
We ought to equip all students with the basic level of education necessary to know about The Choice (work hard or clean toilets), and let them buy, beg, borrow, or steal the rest.
I recommend the one I just bought, the previous generation 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro. Was $2500 a few weeks ago, now selling on Amazon for $1650:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013FLTNS/

In many ways it's better than the new version. IMO it's the best laptop ever made.