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Just after I posted, I realised that the content on the site is entirely populated by your Facebook/Twitter connection, so I withdraw my righteous indignation ;-)

A promo video would help showing potential users where the value is. Or how about adding some public data for an example user? E.g. when an anonymous user views the homepage, they see the content for this example user. Then the Call To Action could be 'see your personalised content by connecting with FB/Twitter'. This would let new users get some value out of the site (or at least see how it could be valuable) before signing up.
Why the world needs introverts
$500 great? Considering that not all developers and content will even take advantage of the screen?
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Here's a cached version: http://www.postgresql.org/
As a first-gen iPad owner I gotta say, two "increments" and it sure looks revolutionary. The same $500 I spent two years ago would now buy me a radically improved device.
It's a well written article, good to see on a site like nytimes.

I have to also agree with your statement. I have been to the states 3 times, first in 2006 where I flew into JFK and was "randomly selected" (woooo, I won!) and then detained for additional questionning for 5 hours.

What did they ask me? Name, DoB, place of birth (all info IN MY PASSPORT ALREADY!), fathers/mothers name, address, what job I did, where I was staying. I have no problems them asking me, but it's the way they treat you. I got put in a waiting room, told to sit down and answer these question in an "application" form. Having filled this in they just told me to sit down. When I got up to ask what was taking so long, "Sir, would you please sit unless you are called". As if the sir makes it polite. Eventually they stamped my passport and I was through.

Flash forward to July 2010, first stop Atlanta. Same deal. I'l also been backpacking for 6 months. That raised an eyebrow when he looked through all the stamps. I hadn't gone to any of those "terrorist" countries though. I was born in Bangladesh and have in the UK since I was a year old. I did get asked though
- Did you have any military training before you left?
- Have you been to country X, Y, Z
- Why did you go to X, Y, Z. Do you not have a job? How did you get time off?
- I even got asked why I left Bangladesh. Really?!? I was a year old mate, didn't really have a say in the matter!

The last time I went was December 2011. That time was a breeze. Flew into Newark, I was already on the system now (I had a change of passport between first 2 visits). I STILL however got briefly questioned in the queue to the counter, I have no idea why, but colour of skin is the only thing...

My brother went to Peru a few years back, he a his girlfriend had a stopover in Miami for a couple hours. Note they were not "entering" America, this was a compulsory refuel stop I guess. He gets hauled in, his girlfriend is sitting outside WTF is going on. He misses his flight due to the delay, they barely get him on the next flight but now his girlfriend has no fight since she was not hauled in. The airline to their credit were good, swapped their flights and his girlfriend took his flight and they gave him another flight yet several hours later. The most ignorant part of this though, when questioned "where were you born" my brother said "London, UK", "But your passport says Kingston", "Yes, Kingston Upon Thames, near London, UK", "Well the only Kingston I know if Kingston, Jamaica". This delayed things a bit. Yes, the world is bigger than that corner of the earth!

</rant>

But the people their are some of the friendliest and hospitable people I have met, and I've travelled around a fair bit!
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" - Plato
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Don't Expect a Ton of Retina-Level iPad Apps Today [Ipad]
What I'd really like is Windows 7.1, not Windows 8. However, I doubt that Microsoft will ever come around and embrace incremental upgrades (or switch to a subscription model, or subscription-level pricing that would fund such a form of development).
I have seen quite a few code bases, where the original author who didn't want to continue the project, just released the source code somewhere (as zlib, public domain, GPL or what ever) but nothing more.

If there was interest by some other developers, there was always some new open source project/community building itself up around the released code. And if not immediately, maybe a few years later.

E.g., some examples (where I was partly also involved in):

* OpenLieroX http://openlierox.net

* ioquake http://ioquake3.org/

* many projects here: http://icculus.org/projects/

* iodoom3: http://www.iodoom.org/ http://git.iodoom.org/ (still not much content there)

* https://github.com/id-Software

* Commander Genius: http://clonekeenplus.sourceforge.net/

* https://github.com/LaPingvino/The-Puzzle-Pits

...
Wasn't there a news the other day that NASA has completely eliminated their mainframe system?
The purpose of the consumer preview is to collect data. It's not primarily a marketing tool.

If the biggest complaint one can muster is that a new OS is unfamiliar (which is the vast bulk of non-ideological criticisms), it's hard to envision a meaningful backlash among users.

As every blogger notes, Microsoft is not Apple. People will not be camped in line at midnight to purchase copies of Windows 8. Microsoft does soft rollouts of its OS - the fact that there is a consumer preview is obvious evidence of that.

Most Windows users upgrade their OS when a new computer is purchased, not upon the OS's release. The few who will upgrade their OS as soon as it becomes available probably have availed their selves of the beta or RTM versions and thus have had time to become familiar with it.
As much as I want to support the backlash, it sounds just conservative and reactionary. The start bar is gone? Really it seems like Microsoft has grown a contingent of users who are even more conservative than itself.
Oops... pooriaazimi@gmail.com

Sorry - I thought emails are visible on HN profile.
lukas thanks for it. Any idea about Nexus One -- how come green pixel is so relatively small. is it just brighter??
How much security could that form be adding if you can apply for it literally minutes before travelling to the US.

I heard from an American work colleague that a main point is traceability. You pay with a credit card and can fairly easily be tracked by that, while you're in the country.

I'm not sure how true this is and I'm not a believer in whacky conspiracy theories, but it seemed rather plausible.
If you distill it down part by part, one can always say it's not 'revolutionary' – but you gotta look at the whole sum. (Btw, how often does a same product 'revolutionize' itself? It'd be a new/different product?)

*Not saying iPad 3 is or isn't revolutionary, but the author isn't giving enough credit and isn't looking at the bigger picture.
I've setup http://p.ostero.us It's a paid Octpress based blogging service for the ex-posterous users - not more free rent - using an awesome blog platform - and a ongoing income generating service

Hopefully this will help other posterous user wondering where to go

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713092
At US airports there are also soldiers or guards carrying big scary automatic weapons in plain sight, you get your fingerprints taken and a picture shot from several angles like you're some sort of criminal and if they decide your papers warrant "special attention" you'll get not only yelled at, but fondled quite a bit more than just a few tugs on your beard.

It's also the only place that made me take my shoes off before the metal detector, which I found quite humiliating--maybe sounds weird but there is something about having to partially undress and being made to walk around on your socks for a bit in front of very unfriendly looking officers trying to decide whether they shall give you an additional pat-down or not that just screams WELCOME TO AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE.

I dunno, it was good to have visited the place once but I'm not sure if I want to go there again. My US friends can come to Europe next time :)
The title contradicts itself, keeping the courts involved was a goal of the anti-SOPA movement.
"potentially distracting apps (email, web)"

Quite on point. Few people would willingly admit to this, but a lot of research suggests that simply having options available imposes a real cognitive load. Simple additions to text like footnotes and hyperlinks produce real drops in recall/comprehension - it's not a stretch to apply this to the iPad with its notifications and rich entertainment options.
The core of numpy is written in C, with some unfortunate dependencies on the C Python API. It should be possible to extract the C core of numpy (with some additional work) and wrap it in Javascript or Lua.
I am not sure if the 6 digit buyers are checking the listings.
>"What I'd really like is Windows 7.1, not Windows 8."

100 years later, a faster horse.
Setting up a Home Office Printer? Here’s What You Need 
Searching the Internet for best printers draws up a quote of 5 top of the line printing devices. Four items on this list cost between US$ 200 to US$ 299...
TechZing recently had a really great interview with Baron Scwartz from Percona. A really interesting interview, highly recommended:

http://techzinglive.com/page/975/172-tz-interview-baron-schw...
Is Business Sustainability Moving Fast Enough?
That would make it even more important for customers to leave ISPs who have signed on.
This article feels completely fitting with the hacker mindset. It's about people having a bad user experience. Trying to fix inconveniences and unpleasant experiences seems right along the same lines as the hacker ethic and entrepreneurial spirit to me. I'm sorry if you disagree.
I guess you've got to look on the bright side though. When there's lots of VC money floating around, people feel like they have to raise capital, employee expensive people, get swish offices.

The secret is that you don't! Bootstrap yourself, focus on bringing in customer's money, rather than spending your equity (which is effectively what you're doing when you take funding).

Take this story http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9133619/Spanx-crea... . Sara Blakely has built a billion dollar company, which she owns 100%, without taking a penny of funding and using $5,000 dollar of her savings. And this is a physical product! When you're selling online services/software there should be even less need for it.
It would affect subpixel rendering of fonts, but I think the iPad doesn't do any subpixel rendering. Not 100% sure though.

It does create another strange effect, though. Since the screen effectively redraws sideways if you hold the iPad in portrait, scrolling vertically quickly makes stuff look a tiny bit distorted; horizontal lines look a bit slanted (like taking a picture out of a car using a cellphone camera, but much less so).
Who pays for this?
I can tell you that my employers are having such difficulties hiring good engineers here in Dublin that they are opening another shop on east Europe. Might be matter of €€€, I don't know, but the pool of both companies and candidates is quite small here.
> At Beijing’s glittering airport, travelers are invited to electronically rate their immigration agent.

They do that in every gov't office in China and every (gov't owned) bank. All have these little things with buttons, where you can rate the service with one to five stars. I highly doubt that anybody ever looks at those numbers. More likely that a very well-connected dude has a company producing these machines.
The whole talks, or the 10-minute dinguses they have on ted.com?
It's a contingent of Tech bloggers - a group known more widely for their criticism of Microsoft than their praise.
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Most of the sites on the list are not just download sites... they are active fan forums for Indian movies where lot of free publicity gets generated for upcoming movies.. and most of the people who are active on these sites are usually hardcore movie buffs who diligently go to most of the new movies. I don't see how blocking these sites will help any one..
I'm 27 so I think I'm just a couple years outside of this generation that can't find jobs. That said, I'm pretty sick and damned tired of seeing lists of things keeping these 20-somethings from succeeding. It's time for people to man up (Though I'm not excluding women) and take responsibility for themselves and stop complaining about externalities keeping them from success and just go out and succeed. The problem isn't the lack of jobs it's this loser, "The world is against me", attitude. One of the young people quoted in the article said, "not for the types of positions I'm qualified for". Another quipped about a living wage. Does this person even know what a living wage is or what that means?

Frankly, this article looks like it's full of over privileged cry-babies sad that life isn't working out as perfect as they hoped. I say it's time for them to pivot on life and stop the damned whining.
That's a good point actually. Normally in benchmarks, though, the same resolution is used across the board.

I don't know how this applies to tablets, though. I suspect the iPad 3 would be upscaling to 2048x1536, but not actually rendering four times as many polygons (or whatever).
There are talented people everywhere. I know it may be shocking, but some of us/them don't want to live in SF. I do agree though that SF has been successful in breeding a mentality where up and coming professionals should sacrifice themselves beyond what would typically be acceptable. Something to be proud of though? Not so sure...
What? I've read through this site before (it's a great resource) and the whole thing is arranged out like a book. And like a good book, it has good flow from topic to topic that requires multiple pages of content.

I really don't think it is an advertising ploy, just a logic way to display long, structured content.
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The OpenPandora shot doesn't look sharp because it has an anti-glare coating. Some of the others may be a bit too bright for the cheap microscope I'm using, so they're a bit blurry. But mostly, the pixels really do look that way; most of them aren't rectangular at all.
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As a long time posterous user I'm not happy about this - twitter will put posterous in maintenance mode.

I've decided to do something about it

I've setup http://p.ostero.us A paid Octpress based blogging service for the ex-posterous users - using an awesome blog platform - makes money - and thats not ganna get purchased and killed off

Hopefully this will help other posterous user wondering where to go

* http://p.ostero.us
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3713092
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No, that's how PenTile screens work. There are twice as many green pixels as red and blue ones (one "visual" pixel is made up of a green and red pixel, or a green and blue pixel, so there are two sub-pixels per pixel). Thus, the green pixels are smaller.
Who's selling Zynga?
Google 'obsessed' with chasing Facebook
True.

There's also interesting discussion to be had about "hacking large bureaucratic systems - building in incentives for polite but effective behaviours or traffic flow analysis or what not.
asking seriously, are there any downsides to using postgresql?
They'd have to adapt to a 21st century mindset. That the internet is here, it's not going away, and the old way of doing business is dead. "Too big to fail" companies/organizations usually dislike that sort of radical change, as we've seen for years and years with the RIAA/MPAA.
I don't see anything about "pair buying" in that article. I'm almost certain that if you and your friend split the cost of a DVD and then make a copy so that you can each have it, both the MPAA and the law see that as simple copyright infringement.
There's always someone who speaks at great length about finance while being clueless about the subject.

>(and none of the large merged banks failed while several large banks with only commercial or only investment banking operations did fail)

They didn't fail because the government bailed them out. The government bailed them out because the disruption to society caused by large COMMERCIAL banks failing was intolerable. They needed to be bailed out because they took great risks on the INVESTMENT side. This merger of the investment and commercial side was prohibited by Glass-Steagall. Which brings us around to our initial point: the financial crisis was substantially exacerbated by the repeal of parts of the Glass-Steagall Act, which allowed the risk-taking of the investment banks to imperil commercial banking.

And no, Glass-Steagall doesn't have anything to do with offering interest on checking accounts.
On this one

34. Beware of tur­ning hob­bies into jobs.

It is true, but only half-true I guess. I have been bitten but this issue: With an engineering background, I loved music, and decided to try to live by music, so I became a sound engineer. I had to stop. After some time I could not listen to anything but raw classical (eg Bach). If you love music and want to continue loving it, don't make it your daily job!

I guess it is different with coding: If you like to code, maybe there is no problem in doing it also as a daily job (arguably).
You can do pagination by using the standard ROW_NUMBER() function and using CTEs, check my blog post for the same: http://sqlwithmanoj.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/creating-stored...

Also in SQL 2012 now you can use the offset-fetch clause to implement paging, check this: http://sqlwithmanoj.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/creating-stored...
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You're playing 6 degrees of hacker news:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484

The problem is that these kind of articles breed - first it's this, then it's some other thing, then it's Mitt Romney, then it's Ron Paul, and in the end you're saddled with a lot of politics.

And none of it is "intellectually stimulating". When I read the article, it just makes me irritated about the US policies and practices in place, but it's all information I already knew.

Also, to me, the "hacker mindset" works a lot better for things you can just go fix, or avoid altogether. Fixing a large, messy, political problem in a large country is anything but that.
So... a 1.5Gb VMWare instance just to avoid pressing shift?
What you've said has nothing to do with my comment.
I'm Canadian. I went to Heathrow one time last year and waited in an immigration line longer than... well ever. It was around a 1 hour wait through the International line.

I don't even see a point of being part of the "Commonwealth" if there isn't a line for citizens, while EU citizens pass largely freely. Regardless of preferential treatment, I thought it was ridiculous that the EU wait time was 0 minutes (as in, there was clearly not a lineup at all) but the internationals line was incredibly long and they didn't bother adding more officers to deal with it.
I think we can't even being to imagine how f'ing difficult it must have been to get the ipad 3's screen resolution to work.

Up until now screens with this pixel density were not available at this size at all, so even just getting the screens produced must have been a challenge.

And four times the pixels also means that a lot more computation power will be needed to actually make use of them.

Of course, with more computing power, there's the issue of both heat and especially battery life.

In my opinion it's amazing that Apple managed to squeeze nearly double the capacity of the old ipad's battery into a new battery which is only 50g heavier than the old one.

Considering that battery life still is about the same than in the old iPad, I really think that doubling the capacity was surely needed or we'd all be pissed about poor battery life.

Yeah. It's "just" a screen update, but a huge amount of work must have gone into making this happen.

Remember last year when everybody wanted the bigger display, but "all" we got was a faster CPU? People were equally pissed back then.
China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companies
Do you control the Mac Mini with an Apple Remote, or with a keyboard?
Boston beats Silicon Valley when it comes to transit & bike sharing
Ask HN: When was the last time you printed out code?
I pressed the print button in my IDE this morning by mistake and it occurred to me that I haven't printed out code in years.

It didn't used to be that way for me - in the mid 90s I worked in a ISO 9000 certified project that required printed code reviews for everything which resulted in a huge wheeled recycling bin to be placed in the engineering area.

Do printed code reviews still happen? Do you print out code for your own reasons?
I'd say it's a mix of that, protectionism, and 1930's isolationism being mixed into a healthy, toxic brew
What is the real reason for this, other than display ads and (maybe) attention? Are the founders pissed that Zuckerberg might end up richer than them? Is it for "copying"?
I only wish the ICE personnel working in Canada were less asinine. I'm an American citizen and I despise going back through Toronto Pearson because of the attitude of a sizeable minority of ICE personnel.

My wife (not an American citizen) had a case this past fall where the ICE officer was in a very bad mood and it seemed to stem from the fact that he was living in Canada—and hated it. He absolutely didn't want to experience anything Canadian, because everything American is obviously superior.

ICE is a serious problem for America.
I don't understand, how so? Yugoslavia was a communist country back then?

Although I doubt that his experience had much to do with the Cold War, but rather the internal pre-breakup tensions, war and the Kosovo/Serbia thing during the time.
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Counter-Strike 2D v0.1.2.0 on Downloads App
From a business perspective, everything the author says makes sense. From a human perspective, as someone who was born & raised in Ireland and subsequently left the country 6 years ago at the age of 24 I can promise you, Ireland is far from a vibrant, positive place to live.

Every single element of the media is drowned in the desperation of the economic crisis, the cost of living is exorbitant and the weather is truly depressing.

The education system is by far Irelands biggest selling point, aside from the fact that it's mostly free, the standard of education and the amount of school leavers undergoing degree courses is continuing to rise mainly because there are no jobs available so the nation is instead looking to educate itself in the hope that when the economy improves they will stand a chance of earning a half decent wage.

I would love to see the tech culture in Ireland experience a revival, we were once the worlds largest exporter of software second only to Japan and our CS Graduates were some of the most sought after candidates on the planet but for those of you considering a move, remember, whilst he timing may be right from a business perspective, the atmosphere and culture is a huge barrier to overcome.
If you're a developer and joining a startup you can ask as a term of employment for this to be an option you can exercise; this way, if the startup doesn't make it, your work is free and open source software.
I left Comcast in Jan because of SOPA. This is just another reason why these 'ISPs' are a bad choice.

I live in San Francisco and chose Sonic.net because they don't cap or do any kind of traffic shaping. I did take a hit in my speed (from 20mb to 10mb), but their service is top notch and I feel good about where I put my money every month. Sonic's also been doing a fiber rollout in some areas north of SF and in one section of the city.

I won't ever go back to Comcast. I'm interested to see how this will affect people. Will there be an exodus from these guys for other ISPs that don't cap or police the line?