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I had the 15 inch MacBook Pro with the biggest/fastest CPU Apple sold at the time. Sold it and bought the 11 inch MacBook Air.

1. Screen size has not bothered me.

2. Lack of a DVD drive has not bothered me. The one time I needed one I did the share thing with my iMac. Worked fine.

3. CPU operations may be a problem for you, but I've been happy with the MacBook Air.

4. Once you carry around the Air you will Swear a Mighty Oath to never carry anything heavier again. I cannot imagine ever owning a MacBook Pro (or anything like it) again.

5. The lack of an ethernet port hasn't bothered me.

6. If you travel, the 11 inch MacBook Air is a delight in cramped coach seats on a plane.
Ryerson student builds world's first gesture-based computing database
Anywhere I can find specs? I mean real specs, with black on white columns containing numbers?

I hate flash so much mostly because it is impossible to get real data out of it. I mean, you support wifi? you don't say!
It's about 15K of code + 5K of unit tests (Jasmine). CoffeeScript is amazing and it really enabled a project of this scope to be fun and manageable. We are very happy customers :)

No tips really. We have several subdirectory builds with independent Makefiles which all get catted together (as we started long before the v1.2.0 join option). Many thanks!
I have a book I published using Leanpub and I set the minimum to be $10. Some people pay the minimum. Some people pay the suggested price of $15. Some have even been as generous as to pay MORE than the suggested price.

If I ever decide to give away my book for free for a limited time, I would not feel bad about people giving me $0 when they could give me whatever they want.

I am in agreement with Raganwald in that I just want people to read it and find it helpful.
I'd imagine military installations play a role. Radars and monitoring stations, plus the military bases.
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Ask HN: Help a Hacker Out
As the result of a series of unfortunate misfires and suboptimal decisions I've found myself in the unenviable position of being unemployed and living back home with my mom in Des Moines, Iowa. While it may sound like a setup for a romantic comedy, the fact that a plucky and attractive female has yet to make an apparence has made it painfully clear that it's not going to be that kind of a movie. So, before the cement dries on what was intended to be a very short-term situation and I find myself greeting shoppers at Walmart, I've decided to buy a one-way ticket to SF where there seems to be plenty of opportunity for the likes of me. The only problem is that I don't have a job, an interview, or even any connections I can leverage.

But if you need help solving hard problems, I'm your guy. I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a masters in Mathematics from Iowa State. I know C++ and Python ok and I've worked as a derivatives quant, a high-frequency trader and even tried my hand at poker for a while. I'm open to short or long-term consulting projects as well as full-time employment. I'm particularly interested in working on challenging problems dealing with algorithms and big data, but I'm up for jumping back into HFT if there's a decent opportunity. Hell, I'll even tutor linear algebra or basket weaving if that's where this adventure needs to begin.

In short, I'm a smart guy coming to SF and I need an opportunity. Please help a hacker out.
And companies wonder why ultrabooks have been a flop...
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It is a legit non-repudiation service that is legally valid. It can be used in most countries court system and follows Berne Convention. I've got most of it covered in the FAQ and more information can be seen here: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

Thanks for the advice thou.
That cuts both ways though. Every human being is effectively part of someone else's environment. Is forcing another man to adapt to one's purported "authority" also progress?
Come work with us at Bronto! Code reviews required before commits, new development laptop every 18 months, mature SDLC, fantastic QA team that has your back, phenomenal engineering management, and an awesome culture (free beer on Fridays).

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In all honesty, I can tell you right now that code reviews have made me a much better programmer. Mistakes I would make that had to be caught by QA are caught by an extra set of eyes. Also, seeing how other people express their thoughts via code has two benefits. First it opens up your eyes to different ways of doing things and second, it makes you more fluent to other people's code, which makes bugfixes and figuring out intent of code you didn't write much easier.
Google App Engine supports traffic splitting for A/B testing
Not that Arrington itself did not have it's problems, though.
This is very close to what I feel. While I sympathize with how socially inept he was, he did make those mistakes himself, lack of skill is not excuse.

After all, there are many socially inept people who manage to live happily as they are; there are many more people who made mistake and learned from them.

"The man of pity, must have his share of blame"
Building a model and personalizing a news stream on a per-user basis is entirely feasible today. Even with very simple ML, you can see some very good real world results.

To avoid the problem of not being able to surface new topics because the user model has converged somewhere, you can use a bandit approach(seriously, who comes up with these names?). By that we mean that you do a bit of exploration by showing news topics drawn at random from some distribution and then adapt your model to what you learned. The naive implementation is "Every random(10,20) news items suggested by the recommender, display 1 drawn at random from the entire corpus. Adapt_Model(user_clicked)"

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Biggest drawback that I didn't notice until I was going to buy one - 4gig's max ram. Might not be an issue for you, but if you need to run VMWare Fusion for example, yeah tough on only 4gigs of ram with Win7 for example.
PLus the aspect that he doesn't have citizenship
I use Sencha Touch on a daily basis, and have used it since version 1.0 (v2.0rc is now out). Clients love it because it comes close enough to native performance for data presentation apps. I also enjoy writing apps entirely in JS. I have also learned a lot about JS reviewing the source code.

The biggest downsides of Sencha Touch I see are:
1. Initial load. The framework is pretty large, even compressed, but CDN, gzip, and cache.manifest files help

2. Device support. Right now they they only support Android and iOS, but this fits the majority of my target.

3. Learning curve. Coming from a jQuery background it took awhile to understand their approach.

I love jQuery for desktop dev. When I tried a previous version of jQuery mobile the experience was not as good overall as Sencha Touch. Looking at the release notes for JQM 1.1, I will be giving it another try.
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I use a Firefox plugin called BetterPrivacy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy....

You can set it to clear your Flash cookies at the end or beginning of each session.
I switched to Pinboard from Delicious about two months ago and I'm very happy. The Firefox plugin works and continues to work even with FF 10.
The article title, which is quoting the writer's favorite teacher, is a lie, which is to say a didactic oversimplification.

When you're trying to explain something, you can be too simple, you can get way too complex, you can qualify your simplification to the point where the explanation is lost, or you can simplify just enough and not spend time discussing the limits of your simplification until you've made your point.

That last item is the "when to lie" bit.
Of course you should add to your list of promotions: "Linked this article on Hacker News" :-)
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The reason behind driving a 1950's car in Cuba is the fact they don't break that often (otherwise they wouldn't be driven would they?) and most likely some weird Cuban embargos on new imports/production. I don't find this example helpful.

I don't see a problem for a rickshaw runner or horse buggy driver becoming a truck driver or UPS delivery guy. They just changed the media that makes them possible to do their job. In this self driving cars scenario, we are replacing drivers with... noone! Unless, self driving cars will be breaking down so often and need so much maintenance that it will create a 15 million workers strong industry to fix or maintain those cars. But I highly doubt that.

edit: other than that, talking only about employment numbers, I don't see how cleaner air or less traffic or getting 15 minutes earlier to work would help 15 million unemployed get the job/create new positions.
I'm pretty positive they are working on the various elements of the web experience you've mentioned, while still focusing on driving people to the app. During the Path 2.0 launch, the website was pushed to a lower priority, but they will get there.

That said, am I alone in basically turning all email notifications off these days? I filter out, or turn off, emails from Facebook, Twitter, and Path (my primary networks). I'm using those networks often enough to not miss anything important, and you can generally have anything urgent sent as a push notification (direct messages, being mentioned in a post, etc).
I think the model is spot on for the lower 4 circuits (Bio-Survival, Territorial/Emotion, Linguistic/Dexterity, Sexual/Social/Tribal) and explains a lot about why people are the way they are.

It's just a map, not reality itself. RAW himself would say as much.
If I removed the secret sauce parts it's just a blank Word Doc :-)

But seriously, there's not much in there that I can share at this point. However, as I implement and experiment with approaches I will be blogging about them.
"...and flip apparently stolen websites"
Can someone explain this to me. I understand stealing a website's content but how do you steal a website?
Absolutely, but you'll typically find huge eccentricities of character in someone capable of doing what Arrington did. I doubt you can separate his character from his results. He was like a pitbull latching on to the slightest hint of a scoop.
Positional audio using the Web Audio API and Three.js (WebGL)
not a hater but I think these type of results are the exception and not the norm. Calacanis is a huge influencer with a lot of tech followers on just about ever social site.
I forgot my email address (I'm the OP)

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It would be great if your homepage and fb app page included more detail on the UI. A think a walk through of a typical scenario including screenshots would be awesome.

And a genuine question here but I don't understand what this problem solves if it's connecting me to people I would already ask (and for which the barriers to ask are pretty low). If they are a facebook friend wouldn't it make sense for me to just post asking for help from my friends? All that said I have a large breed dog that I would love to have help with (more in the long term boarding dept. though).
I probably would not have bought this book, but I did get a copy because it's free. I hope there is a way to retroactively throw some scratch to the author should I find it useful. That seems like a good model, akin to music "piracy" where I find music I love and then buy it. Or, I guess I could "buy" it again...
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Interesting how you don't see cables going through Cuba or North Korea...
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> it would involve an ugly fight, with a lot of ugly accusations. I gave up the fight.

Why did ugly accusations frighten you away from the fight? It might be what they were counting on, in fact.
I bought it just because a few people on twitter brought it up. I moved the slider so that the author received 4 bucks even.
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Except Guantanamo of course...
> I found out that F<>MA

How do you mean?
Link straight to the Quora question and answer.

http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-...
I just tried to get it. I am on a tablet and all attempts to download it have failed. I will chime in and note that I am in pretty dire straits financially (homeless and my freelance work recently fell through -- I am pretty up a creek) and was very concerned it was going to charge me. The means to request it is not very clear in that regard.
If the exchange is work-for-money, why can't an employee finish an easy week's work in 25 hours and go home?
Thanks for the feedback! (Typos fixed, thanks.)

Yes, wires do currently stick to the grid, not to the elements. I wouldn't mind having some mode where they do stick to the elements to make parts a bit easier to move around.

Nestable subcircuits (named nodes as a "part") is on the long-term roadmap, but it's a big feature -- it'll take some time.

As far as collaborative editing, team workspaces, netlist export, PCB layout: we're thinking about all of them, and will just have to see where the users take us!
Then account for it in the schedule. SEI has metrics that estimate the amount of review time needed vs. coding time, you can use that for a start and update with your own data.

As far as the incentive: I really don't much like reviewing code either, but the bugs will be found one way or another. Either by you or your customer. Better they be found as soon as possible.
Indeed it is. And I was sitting next to the author of this blog the entire time.
I switched to PinBoard when the slide about "sunsetting" Delicious was leaked. I've got the archive plan which has worked wonders since a few bookmarked sites have died since then.

I have it tied to my Twitter account. Now anytime I retweet a URL, the URL gets "pinned" to my account and marked "unread".

In addition, I use Instapaper since it's integrated to various iPhone and iPad apps. Pinboard also imports anything from your Instapaper feed, so it becomes the end-all be-all for my bookmarks.
It's so weird because I think it's such an impressive feat and one of those things that I feel should be technically really challenging yet it was done so long ago. Sometimes I learn things and am shocked because I either thought accomplishing the thing would be easy and it turns out to be insanely hard or vice versa. This is the latter.
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How is the performance of virtualbox running win7 or ubuntu on OSX? I definitely would be running virtualbox and Ubuntu on my macbook Air/pro
That's funny, a friend of mine just made the same decision last night: she ended up getting the MBP while the in-machine burner is still available. The next MBP design is alleged to have that eliminated.

I have a 2009 MBP (17", personal) and a 2011 Air (13", from work). I like the larger screen and better graphics card (relative to release date) on my machine, but the Air is super light and nice to lug around. However, the Air tends to stay attached to a 27" Apple display (also from work), so the display issue isn't really a big one (Terminal on small screen, everything else on big screen).

The Air performs like a champ but seems to have its fans ramped up often, even when running iTunes or a YT video.
Humans don't learn because of our short lifespans. If humans from ancient Greece were still alive, we might have learned something.

But our short lifespan is also a boon in many other ways.
I was an unskilled factory worker
Or how about the Asus Zenbooks? 13" 1600x900, 11" 1366x768. Played with one briefly in Staples a few weeks ago, but not enough to get a good feel for it.

Holding off till Linux runs better on them and there are some Ivy Bridge models, but they're definitely on my short list.
Matt Spaccarelli's website and how he sued AT&T (/w docs)
Parenting, tracking, and peer groups probably top the list.

Check out a copy of Hart & Risley's book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children to understand the effect of parenting.

To understand the tracking and peer group, just pick up a book that summarizes all the most important research on education. Two good ones are Equality and Achievement by Riordan, and Visible Learning by John Hattie.
The day I tried teaching primary school kids to code (and succeeded)
Enough with trying to copyright ideas...
from rumours making the rounds, how soon are we going to see the 15" macbook air?
A better term than "slave" is probably "golden handcuffs". You are trapped by what you are given, whether that's healthcare, salary, vesting, etc.
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You can buy it again, or just overpay for one of his other Leanpub books. (He's also got the #5 and #9 selling Leanpub books.)
Yes. This happened to our site as well. Cloudflare buckled and sent a "sorry, can't handle it" email.
Wow, disagree. Team of 3 founders, no vesting, one walks in month 6, the others stay for 4 years, build company; in the end, all three are compensated the same way.

That's a terrible way to allocate equity.

Resetting the vesting clock to zero at funding sounds insane, but if you need the money, the people offering it do set the terms. I know a lot of people who've gotten institutional VC rounds for companies; I believe all of them vested. You're right that it probably can't hurt to push back.
You might like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
Second the photo thing. I was on a machine where I didn't have access to any of my dog photos (work) and I got stuck in the process because I couldn't upload a photo.
PSP (Personal Software Process) has a Code Review phase which is a personal self-review, as opposed to the Inspection which is a group review.

It gets the benefit of the review mainly by using checklists. Try it: you'll find that forcing yourself to use a checklist mostly eliminates the problem of "I can't find bugs in my own code." You can probably find examples of PSP checklists online. SEI suggests starting with their checklist and modifying it to suit your own needs.
White America developed out of freehold farming, whereas Europe developed out of a feudal peasant-farming class that was later enclosed off its land and forced into wage-labor.

Now, moves similar to enclosure were pulled in the US, but the culture developed around "self-reliance" and what you might call Yeoman Capitalism. These people hold a strong, bizarrely strong, idea that any time you like you can quit your job and go homestead some open land, so you're Free.

Minority populations tend to be significantly more left-wing for a reason. We were usually discriminated against in the public or private sphere, or even just allowed into the country as exploited labor (Asians, blacks). We have no thoughts of homesteading the Midwest meaning Freedom; we think worker ownership or unionization means Freedom.
> I'd make sure the press release saw some circulation.

A bunch of it was laid by ATT, which then got bought by Tyco.

The entry of that NJ HQ building was wild: It had pics of the ships used to maintain the cables. (When the cable needs to be pulled up in the middle of the atlantic, it's a bit of a challenge.)

IIRC, Tyco had 9 ships. If you glanced quickly, they looked like battleships with all the equipment on them. It was quite the operation.
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Premium advertisers generally avoid these kind of practices; basically they don't do business with agencies that use flash cookies and/or browser hashing.

Typically, an ad network wants to conform to the guidelines set by the IAB [1], which explicitly recommends against flash cookies, calling them illegal [2].

So, all in all, if something can hurt a brand's reputation among consumers, advertisers generally don't spend their money there. Shady practices like these are among them.

[1] http://www.iab.net/

[2] http://www.iabeurope.eu/news/iab-europe-condemns-%E2%80%98re...
It worked very well. Knowing how much the author gets and seeing it go up and down makes me feel empathetic and makes me think how I'd feel if I were the one selling. I always find that when payment pages are set up this way that I'm not being "sold" something but instead like I'm being offered something useful. It also makes the whole thing feel more human if that's the right word. Payments are almost like adversarial type situations where one party is trying to take money that you're protecting. When it's set up like this it helps break down that attitude and shows you how both you and the seller are helping each other.
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the 3D display is awesome, but there's a lot of other things required before you can give it to consumers and say "this is better than your current desktop". For instance is the 3D OS better than 2D windows? Can a user use the 3D OS for long periods of time?

What's sad is that they also patented, so the technology is effectively lost, after they develop it, and conclude it doesn't jive with their current business strategy someone else can't develop it for fear of infringement.
Trouble with the pinch gesture is the iPhone. The gesture is impossible to use with one hand, and even with two hands, it's still rather awkward on a small (sub-7") screen. Remove the iPhone home button in favor of this gesture and you ruin the user experience. Leave the home button and now we've broken consistency with the iPad (which is one of the main selling points on the iOS ecosystem). Not saying they can't drop the home button, they'd just need a more practical way to do it (for example, webOS/BBX/Win8-style edge swipes)
I starting using pinboard about three or four months ago. Best $9.51 I ever spent on the net.
Isn't that what copyrighting the written word is?
Here's a form of case study, sleazy as it may be :)

http://bit.ly/xevfRN

Also, a working link to the PDF it was published in (article is on page 72): http://interestingtimesmagazine.net/archive/IT05.pdf
I worked for a team in the IBM Linux Technology Center which had a very simple code review policy: all changes get mailed to a mailing list in git-format-patch form, and every patch needed at least one "Acked-by:" before pushing it (or two for changes to stable branches). Worked beautifully, by making code review not just painless but exactly like code review in a public FOSS project.
You let it go on far too long and you sold yourself way too cheap. 10K for 4 months of work? ridiculous.

To anybody reading this in the same or a comparable position: if your employer owes you back wages walk while you can, the writing is already on the wall and you will likely not get a cent out of them without a protracted fight.

Salaries are paid on time unless there is malice, a bad financial position or both.

Regardless of which it is your first responsibility is to yourself, not to a non-paying company.