skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say the same thing, basically that article notes that house prices have tumbled 40% and that is the biggest asset most people have, and if you're leveraged (which is to say you have a mortgage) then the contribution of your house toward your net worth probably went away, and so now you are 'less wealthy'.

That reasoning completely sidesteps the fact that houses should not have ever risen to the prices they did. The sudden 'house wealth' bubble was directly attributed to extremely bad fiscal policy pretty much throughout the ranks. And while a number of us in Silicon Valley have already learned the lesson 'your not really rich if your wealth is all in a bubble asset' the rest of the country got to learn this too. It sucks, but its more like "you know what your house will be worth in another 15 to 20 years when it would have gotten there based on a reasonable fiscal policy and a 2% economic growth rate.

(and yes it appears to be a story from 2 yrs ago, just when the real estate market crash was in everyone's mind, although this reporter seems to have picked it up today for a few hits during an election year.)
A faster (older) version of this by the same people, with camera flashes: http://flitser.org/
I haven't printed a boarding pass since Delta came out with their app. At least in SLC, you don't need it.
Phone Recharging Could be Possible From Street Lights
Data Debt: One Way Of Impacting At The Data Portfolio
I still don't understand why people want to switch platforms. I'm using a macbook pro with windows. OSX is terrible in my opinion, and so I just use bootcamp and go on my merry way.
Show HN: Journalong, a plain text journal for your Dropbox
I was actually looking to build something else when I had to scratch an itch to build something that would let me journal to my Dropbox from anywhere.
I was hoping 2560x1600 13" pro, preferably in a fullsized body (instead of this Airy silliness). Instead just a overprized and oversized Air, and lackluster minimal refresh to real Pros.
"I think you could do a pretty good case study on how not to do security crisis PR"

Agree but wonder why companies don't have the crash cart ready and always seem to mess this one up.

"harmed by bad crisis PR are LinkedIn investors"

My feeling is different. If people are talking about your company (and plenty has been said about this) and it's something that they've heard before many times I think the publicity is not bad and if anything could get some retail investors interested. Linkedin is not a food product and, in general, I don't think people think of linkedin like they think if they find out a product contains pink slime.

It's like WD-40. You spray it on and the carrier evaporates leaving the stuff that does the work. So the memory of linkedin remains and the knowledge of the problem is lost.

People have short memories. The brand will have a publicity gain and the negative will be forgotten.

This happens with celebrities who do bad things. They just become more famous and valuable (in that case even if people remember the bad like with Sheen). (With the exception of, say, OJ Simpson and maybe a few others such as Tiger Woods because of his squeaky clean image.)
Looks like they dropped the 17" MBP and replaced it with the new 15" Retina MBP.
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Yea, this is a real downer. I still like my iPad 1 and was planning on upgrading eventually, but it feels like Apple is kind of forcing my hand here. PS I realize I don't have to upgrade, so Apple isn't really forcing me to do anything.
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Flyby I can see limiting to the devices with the nicer GPU but the lack of turn-by-turn on older devices seems odd. My Droid had 3D turn-by-turn navigation when it was released and that was in October of 2009.

I suspect Apple just didn't want to compromise on how detailed the 3D was so they left older devices out.
I've spent a reasonable amount of time using Windows, Linux, and OSX. All of them suck. All of them are also awesome, at different things.

If you want an living room PC for entertainment, Windows is king. Neither Linux or OSX support Bluray properly and Windows still has a huge edge in gaming. Windows also supports the most hardware. That's become unimportant to most people, but if you work in a research lab with various oddball computer controlled devices around, you are often forced to work with Windows simply because that's the only OS supported by drivers for a lot of things.

OSX is the perfect OS for your mother. There's the one "Apple way" of doing things, so if she needs help it's easy to give her some. OSX gets decent battery life (on mac hardware) and still has a few Unix friendly features that haven't been locked away by Apple yet. If you're looking for a ghetto linux workstation, OSX will do in a pinch. I actually spent the better part of last year working under OSX on a Mac Book air. I've used Mac's off and on for decades and this is just the most recent stint (The MBA hardware lured me in this time). It worked, but the OS still puts up too much fight you when you try to customize it. OSX has also gotten rather buggy. I'm relieved to have retired it. As I said, while it would be great for my mother I personally detest OSX. Also, Mac hardware is moving away from the DIY crowd. e.g. The MBA's actually use proprietary screws to keep you out of your own laptop's innards. If you've ever saved a laptop from a coffee spill by disconnecting the battery and opening it up and doing a little cleaning, just bear in mind you won't be able to do that with most future macs.

Linux is bug central. Don't get me wrong, it's come a long way from the days when Slackware was king. You can install Ubuntu and almost everything will just work. The devil is in the details though, and if you have a low tolerance for flakiness you'll have to tweak away. However, no other OS is as powerful and flexible. If you want it to do X, it can do X in dozens of different ways. If the journey is as important as the destination for you, Linux is your OS.

Windows is all things to all people, but entertainment first and foremost. OSX is for your mother or people who would rather not use a real computer. Linux is for those who embrace the quest. Decide (and be honest with yourself) what kind of user you are and your OS preference will become clear, although what you are forced to use may be different. I currently use both Windows and Linux extensively, and occasionally help my Mom with OSX.
Mozilla Boot to Gecko with Andreas Gal [video]
If things keep going the way they're going, Apple fanboyism will become less and less of a problem among hackers. Apple appears to be in a gradual transition process from MacOS computers to iOS "Don't worry, just watch the pretty pictures, and we'll tell you which PAY button to press" devices. Windows, not wanting to be left behind selling computers instead of devices (Yuck! Computers! That's SO 20th century), is making the same transition to Metro.

It appears that both of the major computer platform makers have come to the same conclusion: they don't want to make computers that their customers can program for their own purposes; they want to make ever-more-tightly-sealed point-of-sale devices for buying digital products and services from the device maker and its partners.

In other words, if you think the sealed iPhone, tethered to giant companies with strict rules about what you may and may not do with it or put on it and its design esthetic of "enjoy the beauty, stop resisting, do exactly as we say, and why not buy something with it, you'll feel better" is your idea of a great "pocket computer" for hackers, then you should be happy about where our computers are going. Otherwise....

I think we hackers are going to be driven to Linux on the desktop over time, which I would have no objection to if only there were an "Apple for Linux" company making the hardware and matching drivers of Apple-level quality. I can live without MacOS, but the hardware is a big deal.
How does this in any way mitigate the issue of fly-by / socket puppet reviewers?
Tweet ratio to predict winner? StanleyCup social experience w live video tonight
Oh, I see. We'll have to think about that. Since HTML doesn't have the concept of tabstops or dynamic tab positions, this may not work very well in the context of an online WYSIWYG editor.

In the context of word processors, tabbing in a list usually indents and in a table cell usually moves to the next cell so we would probably adopt those for predictability.

What happens outside of that I'm not sure what would be the best. We can probably implement anything and we can also offer configurable options as well. That said, we'll probably have a recommended default based on what we think is best.

TheSunny
Yes, it's still used for several reasons, including:

- enumerate the properties, signals, slots and other methods as well as decorations (classinfo) present in a class (this feature is called “type reflection”, which is common in scripted languages, but is also present in Java)

- get and set properties by name and without knowing th exact type of the property (though technically the latter is a product of the related, but independent Meta Type system)

- place calls to extracted member functions (the “invokable” functions) by name

- the last two features together allow us also to integrate C++ classes easily with other languages and IPC mechanisms without the need to write specialised parsers (D-Bus, EcmaScript, QML, but also the many bindings to Qt like Python or C#)

- instantiate types by simply having access to the meta object
Really? The biggest-selling smartphones are made by Apple, who famously downplay specs in mobile devices.
I sure am glad that I bought a 2 TB USB 3.0 last year before I had anything with USB 3.0 ports!
Twitter’s Big Pitch to Big Brands: You Want Space? We Got Space.
Yeah. I took the top screenshot.
I'm getting nothing on Chrome beta (20). An occasional glimpse of a picture of two guys (?), assumed it was a silly joke...
"Up to two external displays."

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
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If you would like to join the beta, you can do so with this invite link: http://geekli.st/chapel/invite/80F1354E49

It will work if you are waiting for beta also.
Kim Dotcom Exclusive Interview 'I will fight this and win'
Supreme Court Rejects ‘Dirty Bomber’ Case
You misunderstood. I wasn't saying that these numbers don't make sense to businesses. I'm saying that the numbers you provided are completely wrong. There is no $100/user/mo option for Office 365 and a desktop Office license costs a lot more than $100.
Apple Continues to Blur the Line Between Devices: Here's Why It Matters
Instead of a "guest code," they really need to implement real multi-user environments. While somewhat nonsensical on a phone, it's greatly needed on family iPads. Then the iPhone could pick up a guest account for "free."
"Almost no advantage" = thinner laptops. Apple will go for thinner every time (see ethernet for an example).
Thanks for sharing!

I'm just about to start a full-remote schedule at the job I've had for 7 years. I'm extremely nervous about my future with the company. I work for a big, older tech company where remote working is an afterthought, not ingrained in the culture like Treehouse.

We're moving from Massachusetts to Tampa, FL to pursue a job opportunity for my wife (She's an attorney). I am extremely lucky to have been approved by the corporate chain to continue my responsibilities remotely.

Who knows, if it doesn't work out with them, maybe a job at Treehouse is in my future!
Warning: at least one of the images is not "family-friendly". Are the images automatically collected?
The 3GS phones are still being sold. It would be a real surprise if it didn't support a product currently on the market ...
Once again, there's two ways of reading this story. One way is from the attacker's perspective, baffling yourself as to how Glazunov could have found all these bugs and assembled them in the right order. The other is from the defender's perspective, gaining an appreciation for how well the security model is working that it takes an exploit this intricate to break it.

Either way, you're doing something right when your documentation of a security vulnerability in your product actually serves to market the security of that product. The Chrome security team is doing a lot of stuff right.
OS X might be the only OS to take advantage of the pixel doubling for a while.
Every time I touch Qt, it feels more like Java than C++. Both because it has reimplemented everything and abstracted the OS completely (write once, debug everywhere). And the memory use patterns seem similar too, Qt feels very lax on how memory is used, and seems to prefer heap allocations a lot.

Those are just superficial impressions, but while Qt is terrific GUI toolkit and set of libraries, the all-encompassing framework style doesn't fit to me.
Haha, very clever. Although I seem to be running into problems whenever I put the mouse into one of the 4 corners of the screen. It can find anything more centrally located, though (apparently?)
This is definitely on our short list and SnapEditor won't go to production without the image uploader. I'm going to guesstimate we'll have some sort of support in about a month along with some other got-to-have features.

We want to get this right and part of that is coming up with a great and simple server API to handle the uploads across all platforms/languages/frameworks.

TheSunny
Good Developer, Bad Developer
What makes good developers great, and what's missing in those who are not...
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Yep, it looks like Safari's getting upload support. Finally!
Interesting, thanks so much for the response.
I'll keep this in mind as I continue to develop my app. It's still between custom byte stream, json, thrift, etc.

But MsgPack looks interesting as well and, if anything, these blog posts have brought it into the light for me.

I looked at the java class and what might help is if you can set a buffer size and use that buffer to store the data in the buffer and expand it if necessary. But that seems like a lot of work.
But yeah, not sure if you can optimize based on usage patterns due to the constraint you said.
In any case, great stuff and thanks for the info.
I watched your video. It does not seem to explain how the fingertip position in each photo was calculated, which it seems to me is really the heart of the magic.
WWDC 2012 Keynote
'Conclusive' Link Found Between Stuxnet And Flame
We need to remember that it's the nature of technology to continuously improve. We tend to take it for granted, but that is because continuous improvement has been that reliable. 2 MP 15" displays were available in 2002 and were a $2000-laptop technology by 2006 if not earlier. It is not surprising that 5 MP 15" displays are $2000-laptop technology six years later.
A fair question.

Without giving too much away, the uptake rate to Pro & Premium has turned MB into a solid, profitable business less than a year after launch.

If tweaks occur to the "Free" account down the road, the MB team has historically "grandfathered" all account levels retroactively if changes are made moving forward.
Except that Windows doesn't have the HiDPI concept, which makes all your UI truly tiny and useless.
As someone who does SEM, I played around with some queries, and...

-GTM is using the dynamic keyword insertion for the title of some their ads. This is not uncommon. And for the right queries, it does work.

-GTM is buying keywords for some competitors, for example, search fuzebox. On the other hand, they haven't found join.me just yet.

As an advertiser, unless there is a trademark block, you can bid on competitor keywords. What you can't do is use competitor keywords in the title or copy of your ad, dynamic insertion and/or copy. That second screenshot is most troubling, as the title does not match the query (i.e. that copy was built.)

GTM needs to remove their dynamic insertion ad from their competitor ad group and from any built copy. They should not be using competitor keywords in the title/copy of their ads at all, so for any budding SEMs here that's really what the issue is.
I use change space(https://github.com/sdsykes/Change-Space) to get around this, but the fact that I can't have native 2-d spaces really bothers me. Change Space is good, but it does have a few bugs that wouldn't exist if Apple hadn't insisted on breaking spaces for no reason that I'm aware of.

I love my Macbook but can't stand the direction of the operating system. It feels like I use more and more hacks like the above just to have a usable machine.
Ooh, if this means that even a file upload limited to photos is available then that makes my life a million times easier.
You can, but not with the Retina display. Shame, I am quite in love with my current matte screen.
It says mostly that iOS hasn't changed much in 3 years.
Well, there are cheap unlimited 3G data plans without restriction on the device here in Singapore, and I guess in other countries too. But I guess Apple's biggest market remains the US, right?
Probably because it didn't add much to the discussion, which is actually what down-voting is technically supposed to be used for. Makes sense, I wouldn't want this comment to be up towards the top - it's just you saying you want to buy a MBP.
I thought they did remarkably well. Even though they don't know the proper names, the correctly identified the correct use case for many of the items. To call somthing a CD is to say that it is for playing music. To say something goes in to an iPod is to say it stores music (or data).

There's a valuable lesson for tech entrepreneurs here. The users of your product don't care that it's a magnetic storage device, they care that it stores music. Your users don't care if it's a funky yellow box with a plunger on top, they care that they (think that they) can watch a movie.

Wash away all the technical specifics and focus on what your users want to do. It's product development 101, but we are often so wrapped up how our products work, we forget this crucial perspective.
> Pointing out that ICS only runs on 7% of devices while ios 5 runs on 80% is fun marketing games.

How is this fun, marketing games ? It is a fact.
New MacBook Pro Official Specs
Ask that question the other way around: if you could get all the command-line goodness you want from Linux but also have all the device support (particularly, solid graphics card drivers), apps, games etc. of Windows, isn't that better?

Linux GUIs (Android only partially excepted), in my experience, are amateur in the worst way: dilettantish, faddish, inconsistent, incomplete, and replaced with something new and differently broken long before any stability emerges. I also really dislike the UI scaling: the font selection, border sizes, etc., KDE / Gnome defaults are all too widely spaced for my taste, and customizing it so that it would be acceptable seems to be a full-time job. As it is with Windows, I had to install Classic Shell to get a usable explorer tree view and start menu I could live with.

There isn't a single graphical app available exclusively for Linux that I'm jealous of. And for command-line / server stuff that's Linux-only, I'm perfectly happy with ssh running in mintty on Windows.
I think they meant that they would only do HR acquisitions going forward. I.e. no more product buys.
Thanks for the comments Scott,

Yeah, we wrote special code to fix cut and pasting of bullets in some browsers like Chrome; however, recent versions of Chrome seem to fix this so we removed that code. We'd like to take credit for being the only WYSIWYG editors that fixes the cut/paste bullet problem but WebKit seems to have fixed that for all editors now.

We do the pricing by developer to differentiate between small websites (with 1 or 2 developers) from companies that are building SAAS apps with perhaps a dozen or more developers.

TheSunny
One further note on hardware quality:

Perceived hardware quality is something Apple is fantastic at. Their laptops look and feel great. They feel like they'll last decades. This is misleading since they're actually built to be disposable. e.g. If you spill coffee on your Macbook Air, it's dead. You can't fix it because you can't remove the battery in a timely fashion and don't have the tools to open it. Apple won't fix it because their warranty doesn't cover spills. They won't even open it up and help you clean it up. They'll just tell you it's now off warranty and to kindly buy another or PFO. This is the big apple lie. Their stuff feels like heirlooms, but it's built to be binned at the first sign of trouble or obsolescence (or when the non-user-replaceable battery inevitably fails).

For some strange reason Apple has managed to put retina displays in their laptops before LG or Samsung (who probably manufacture those panels) manage to put them in their own laptops. While other laptop manufacturers are pretty timid about doing new things these days, they are getting faster at following in Apple's footsteps. We'll likely see Samsung or LG putting out their own laptops with retina displays within a few months. At least some of them will have proper screws that you actually own a screwdriver for.

Samsung really has the potential to be an industry leader. They make everything. SSD's, memory, displays, you name it. Some of their efforts (e.g. the Series 9) have actually been innovative in certain small and specific ways. It's frustrating to watch them sit back and let Apple do things "first" with their own parts though. Someone at Samsung is really dropping the ball and I hope they're shown the door soon.
Most stuff in Linux looks crappy if you play too much with the DPI setting.

Hopefully the Linux devs will start taking this into consideration.
It's not thinner than the MBA 2011. The MBA 2011 has regular MagSafe. Maybe they needed to go thinner for engineering reasons to put other stuff inside, but that seems lame.
You'll eventually get better than 1920x1080 on your Retina MBP, because apps will adapt to the HiDPI APIs, and then you can scale all the critical parts (text views, graphics views, etc.) to be as tiny as you like and still get high-quality, and the same settings will work on the old non-Retina display but just look worse.

I.e., the approach they've taken is fully scaleable from current resolutions to high resolutions, but it'll take some cooperation from third-party software.

In the end, you'll be better off.
Thanks for the feedback. A wordpress plugin is definitely an area that we have discussed and will be exploring.
Yes, but how did the author create that .json file? Manually or using some ML algorithm?
Meant to mention... think it got lost when I was typing. We got a big boost from our friends at mashable (http://mashable.com/2012/06/11/tweepify) in driving attention. We also have had a lot of kinf sharing on twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/tweepify). Been fun to see people interact and post their creations.
Remember Samsung did just become a platinum members of the Linux Foundation.

It really wouldn't surprise me if Samsung was looking to assert much more control over Android even to the point of forking it.
WWDC 2012 Notes
MagSafe2 is just thinner, not electrically different.