skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most amazing thing about it: the photos.

The photos are made with a cheap digicam with no lighting. I'm not saying this to complain, but to praise.

That's because the photos prove (at least to me) that the project is done in someone's bedroom at almost no cost at all.

That someone at this level of business development can defy laws of business and offer something like the mintBox is amazing and is a sign of how the times have changed.

Ten years ago, no one would have dreamt of this sort of thing.

Then again, forty years ago they would have. That was also the most amazing time for computer science, when the seminal advancements were being made that still continue to resonate with the world. So maybe, with the whole maker crowd, and statup biz, and this sort of mintBox ramshack business mentality, we're looking at another golden age?
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The problem is that it's all just BS. What are the conditions that bring about "state shift"? What are the consequences? How do you even identify when a state shift has occurred? Is it good or bad or just different?

Just look at Figure 2 (here: http://i.imgur.com/Zi3uB.png). What is the definition of either of the axes? What is the basis for the relationship between any of the factors portrayed. It is favorable even to call this figure a schematic. If a student tried to slip such a figure into a research paper in high school or college they would certainly draw the ire of their professor, and justifiably so.

There is nothing falsifiable about this "theory", it is not science in any reasonable sense.
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MS, in turn, just did the software and let everyone else figure out the hardware.

Microsoft had nothing to do with the openness of the PC architecture. By the time MS had any influence, the PC market had already been well established with several manufacturers churning out PC clones.

It was the cheap PC hardware that resulted from the evolution of the PC around the MS software...

Isn't it the other way around? At least in the beginning, the MS software seemed to evolve around advances in the PC hardware. At some point Microsoft probably got enough leverage to influence the process, but another company (or a consortium of companies) would have probably got to do that if MS had not been around.
Why did you build it that way instead of having a specific API path?
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>>What I dislike about the RMS position is that it seems to consider tinkering, and perhaps geek culture in general, as inherently good and goals in their own right. I take a more utilitarian view: tinkering is good insofar we benefit from the results.

Would you say truth is beneficial only so as long as one benefits from it?

The fact is, somethings are inherently good in their own right. Eg: Non-violence.
That's interesting. Can you edit all selected occurrences at once? I don't think there's an immediate analogue in Vim.
If programming languages were music instruments
Programming languages presented as music instruments .
You pay Amazon to put it on the Kindle store, not for the storage.
Debt is only an asset to the bank.

Where do you get this concept of the bank inventing 2 million? Shirly that's just wrong.
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yep. I was amazed to find that Copy/Paste even works...
You're probably being downmodded because half a pound of weight is not a major feature, but you're trying to shoehorn it into a trump card. For me, the trackpoint mouse is a major feature which leaves the Air dead in the water, but it's really a minor feature between the two.

Same as all the extras that the X220 has over the Air, like card slots, swappable batteries, and a perimeter that doesn't cut into your hand. And vice versa. These things are all minor differences. The Thinkpad laptops are also as tough as the Apple laptops, if not tougher - despite looking like a normal laptop, they survive more military tests than 'hardened' brand laptops.

The short version is simply that the Lenovo X-series and the Apple Airs are equivalent laptops at the same price point - the Air is not 'better' for 'less' than the 'inferior' product.
> I'm a bit stumped on toggling comments, though. Any ideas?

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218
SKA is a radio telescope, E-ELT will work with visible light, and as such, they would be usable for very different targets.
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Congratulations, you've stated the theory with far more specificity and a greater degree of testability than the paper's authors managed.
This is pretty cool, I've been wanting to build something almost identical to this using node.js. Inspiration, this is!
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I really wouldn't call it a huge step forward for mobile web as much as it's a huge step forward for Apple.

For what it's worth, my BlackBerry Curve from 6+ years ago supported form uploads. Apple was just years behind on this.
I also think it's funny that Apple marketing switched so strongly from "Think Different, personalise your stuff" to "You will all be the same, abandon choice"
The article quotes a "transportation expert" who says: "'The incentives will be far too small,' he wrote in an e-mail, adding: 'You really do need big disincentives (big sticks). Little carrots won’t do the job of changing drivers’ decisions.'"

This guy clearly wasn't paying attention to the fact that people stood in line for hours at Denny's...in the snow!...to get a free breakfast one day: http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/03/news/companies/dennys_breakf...

People do strange things when "free" is involved. I think this system has a good shot at being successful.
No, those formulas are exact, you are just using them incorrectly.

You think V=IR describes a resistor, it does not. It describes electricity. So it's not surprising that when applied to a resistor it doesn't work. You are trying to model a resistor, but you are not including everything in your model, so it fails.

Which is exactly what I'm warning about.

> By your argument, V=IR must then be a "model" and is useless, with no predictive power

V=IR is not a model. Using it to describe a physical resistor is a model.

Suppose I never touched a real resistor in my life, and the only information I had was an understanding based on some other law that V=IR. Now I want to use that information to predict what a resistor will do. I will fail - among other things it doesn't take into account inductance or capacitance.

Which is why it is very very important to know what your equation describes. You thought that V=IR completely describes a physical resistor, when it does not.

Now you know why it's incredibly dangerous to try to learn anything from a model. If even something as simple as Ohm's law can be confusing, imagine how many error a model with hundreds of equations has.
Google launches Metro-style Chrome browser for Windows 8
By the way, I agree that recently things can get better. I stopped trying to get the Linux laptops in Jan after about 5 months of wrangling.
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I am glad the EFF is doing this sort of thing. It seems like a good reactionary stance that should help the society at large. Will the data be available anywhere publicly? It doesn't seem like the EFF mention that I am sending them the data under a license. Is that something I have missed, or have they overlooked this? It seems like an important part of the equation.
Consumer here. What I don't like about this absurd per-megabyte price is that it discourages authors from including quality pictures in their books.

This finally explains why the Kindle version of some books I've bought were garbage. In particular, I was enormously disappointed with Lonely Planet books - the maps are poor quality and split out among several pages so it's almost impossible to find anything. It was a terrible mistake not to buy the PDF.

Between the awful maps in Lonely Planet and the absurd number of OCR glitches in Modern Times, I've spent my last Kindle dollar.
You should check out the 'quantification' features of this Python lib called Pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en

>>> from pattern.en import quantify
>>> print quantify(['goose', 'goose', 'duck', 'chicken', 'chicken', 'chicken'])
>>> print quantify('carrot', amount=1000)
>>> print quantify({'carrot': 100, 'parrot': 20})

several chickens, a pair of geese and a duck
hundreds of carrots
dozens of carrots and a score of parrots

This is useful functionality to include. It's practically cheating to port Python to JavaScript so it shouldn't be hard to adapt the relevant parts of the code to your project. (Well, depending on how much of it depends on the pluralization/singularization portions of Pattern.)
While not exactly what you're talking about, I did some contract SEO work recently that left me feeling like I'd done something even worse. A friend there got me the interview and spoke well of me. We'd worked together in local TV journalism, where I worked for years after he left. (I'm aware, many would consider local TV news trash in its right right. ;) )

I'll always appreciate his looking out for me like he did, but I'm one of those crazy people who thinks advertising in general is just... Grating. And doing it for something I don't care about? I thought I could stomach it and go forward, but I felt horrible. Now, I still did the work, and I don't think I did a poorer job, I just felt really dissatisfied about it, and the work took me far longer to do it than I should've.

I ended up ending the contract myself after a couple of months. I mean, there were a couple of good jobs in the contract... It's just, I can see how someone could do well in that field helping elevate bad or mediocre companies/people get more attention that they deserve. And that's horrible to me. I want to do some work I can believe in.

Like you said, it can take real creativity and ability, and I still have the utmost respect for my friend who works at the marketing company. I personally just felt so weird writing and doing that work behind the scenes for that reason, after years of working in journalism and enjoying that I felt I was contributing, even to some degree, to the public good.
Since government is creating massive problems already, such as the global debt crisis, I really don't think all encompassing planetary government is a good idea at all.

People seem to think nothing could ever go wrong with such a concept. But history tells another story about government. We've had some very bad totalitarian governments. I'd rather not trust any single organization that will never face any competition.

I'm not saying its a bad idea to coordinate with other countries on specific issues. That's what treaties are for. Even there, some pretty bad ideas can be agreed upon. At least countries can leave a treaty that proves to be a disaster.
It's likely not patentable, similar feature has been in old Nokia phones years ago.

Many current mobile usage ideas, like e.g. location based reminders, Nokia had in design board or development internally already in early 2000s. Many ideas are common sense. At the end of the day, ideas don't matter that much, it's the execution that matters.
Not to mention VIM has been available on Windows for many years, so the gp has probably already eliminated it as an option.
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But then everyone in the photos would be Indian.
Prices here in Brazil were nudged up a little:

Air 11": R$2699 -> R$3699 (1849 USD)
MBP 13": R$3599 -> R$3999 (2000 USD)
MBP Retina: R$9999 (4500 USD - WHAT??)
MBP Retina maxed out: R$15973 (~8000 USD...)

The prices for the new retina MBPs are outrageous. Tax rate for imports is 60%, and IT companies are eligible for some tax exemptions/reductions, it doesn't make any sense. For R$10k you can fly to the US and buy two retina MBPs. The first one would be exempt from taxes on return.

Apple prices went from ridiculous (buy a Mac or buy a car) 6 years ago to very competitive, until this update - apparently the good days are over.
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They are much much cheaper to operate compared to an actual plane with a pilot. That allows for invisible 24/7 surveillance of large areas. And that's where we get into police state territory.

Its the same reason why you now need a judge to sign off on a GPS tracker. People made the same argument that police are already free to tail people, but don't realize the time and cost associated with doing so.
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What's Wrong With the Lean Start-up
I don't know who is trolling whom here.

But you find goodness in a man known for his extreme hate writings against people of certain ethnic origins(Arabs), and people belonging to a particular race and color(blacks). Or certain preference on a way of life(like marrying people of the same gender). You consider this man good.

And now you call the people who point to this as trolls.

At this point my debate with you ends. Because I don't think we are on the plane of thinking.
Had the same issue. Would love to not have the outside area scroll if I'm trying to scroll the slide-out.
Some of 'em are quite different. For instance, Textmate uses various modifiers on the 'u' key for capitalization.
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Just curious, why Portland?
Apple’s new Maps app in iOS 6 missing public transportation directions
Can't read it because I'm signed into google but don't have a profile and google+ account. Google won't let me view the link without first joining google+. That's dirty!
It's less important that Dell invests in companies (of course they do!), it's more important how this is being publicized. Terms like startup are becoming pervasive household names in corporate finance. Not-so-suddenly, corporations are overtaken with a new trend: fund some startups, and they might help your geriatric company's stagnation. It's like having grandchildren late in life.

I can already imagine: 5 years from now, McDonald's funds startups. Possibly something to do with transforming pig dung into a renewable energy source. Humoristically, stock prices go plummeting because Burger King has higher-yield, lower-margin cow dung to process.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it
Ask HN: Sending non-mass emails?
Ok, so I know HN likes MailChimp for mass emails...

But what do you guys use for single email sends? I'm talking about stuff like email verification emails, or notification/unique emails that are sent to a single user through normal web use?

I have dealt before with setting up my own SMTP server, configuring the different anti-spam configurations different recipients like (SPF, etc). Then going through hell with blacklists and a-hole sys admin policies in order to get the emails to go through.

A small site can use something like a gmail account to send outbound emails, but I figure Google is going to get pissed off and block the account soon.

So what does HN do for this task?
This is absolutely false. When RMS advocates for "free" software, what he really means is "prohibit IP protection for value-add".

Prohibition != Freedom.

This inhibits the natural development of software...it is bad for software, and it is bad for business. The GPL tries to TAKE AWAY your freedom to add value to existing GPL products by forcing you to release your source code. Fortunately the GPL is fairly ineffective in achieving its aims.

The BSD is an actually free license. When you release actually free software, there is nothing to debate because you aren't going out of your way to annoy people who are trying to bring innovative products to market that are based on your stuff.

The Free Software Foundation should give up already and call itself the "Anti-Commercial Software Cult".
Maybe you should make a Node.js fork... I was thinking about doing one myself!
No more bullshit "drop your globally usable AWS keys directly into config files and application code"

yes please!
> you have no visibility (like await, iowat etc)

And you need this for the intended purpose why exactly?

From the article:

> The t1.micro RDS instance is a low cost instance type designed for low traffic web applications, test applications and small projects
In before the hate train starts rolling full steam ahead right over Microsoft. This is a fantastic decision, they obviously really had no choice otherwise a lot of people would have abandoned Windows 8 development and Microsoft would have looked bad launching an OS that didn't have many supported applications.

As for Windows XP support, why would Microsoft add in support for an OS they don't really support any more? It has been 11 years, well almost 12 since XP came out and the fact people want to support the outdated OS is like asking Google to start supporting Internet Explorer 6 again.
Fix deployed! Thanks again!
I'd just like to point out that Google significantly raised the state of the art with respect to browser security, specifically because they made it central to their effort. They had a more secure browser within a year than the other vendors had created since the birth of the web.

This is a minor setback and I have no doubt that they've learned not only just how to fix this set of bugs, but the bug classes they represent.

Netscape won (at the time) partly on "features", so browser competitors have to release features, balanced with their other priorities. Can't go back, can only go forward as responsibly as possible. Chrome has done this admirably.

I suggest looking at these tests through a half-full glass. There's a huge benefit in discovering multi-bug exploits, for Chrome, Google, other browser vendors and all users. When an attacker is looking to break into a computer, Chrome is not their most obvious starting point. In fact, IIRC Kevin Mitnick said this:

"KH: What’s the most secure OS? Is there one that you can recommend?

KM: I don’t know of any secure OS. In the past eight years, I’ve had 100% success at penetration testing on all of them. Wait, ChromeOS, ChromeOS is the most secure because of its very limited attack vector–there’s just nothing to exploit."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ghost-in-the-wires-the-ke...

That's progress, surely.
That's not how advertising works. You are certainly more aware of FunnyJunk now. For example, the next time you see a link that points there you will probably pay more attention than you would otherwise.
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I'm in the same boat as you, but I can read it ok.
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I'm just paraphrasing the paper. Everything that I said was in there, if you cared to look.
The author tries to paint Apple as "hiding the truth" but he's the one pushing an agenda:

1) User Adoption: adoption can only be a percentage, and is independent of market share.

2) Satisfaction: their data has different numbers, but the same end results. How is that "drastically different" or "lying"?

3) Fastest JS: this Safari update will no doubt come to market before IE10, and have a much faster adoption rate (ha). No lies here either.
>> J Join line.

>> ddp Swap line with the one below.
>> ddkP Swap line with the one above.

>> dd Delete current line
>> yyp Duplicate line

>> gq} Rewrap a paragraph.

These shortcuts work in Sublime too, with Vintage mode enabled.
For everyone else who is still confused (including me until a minute ago), join coder and cries with a dash.
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In general this is true, but there's at least one thing you never grow out of needing: more storage. And until now the mac pro is the only one with expandable internal storage. On top of that most apple software[1] don't deal well with network storage, so it's twice as bad for some users.

[1]especially time machine and aperture but a lot of others as well
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Complaining that a business is charging too much money for its product is silly, if everyone is willing to pay that price. The central insight here is that there is no morally correct price for something, there is only the market price. Goods and services don't have "correct" prices, there is only what people will pay.

If you are willing to pay, saying they are charging too much is just wishful thinking.
I wonder why he didn't just say as much in either the blog post or the Flippa auction?
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Depending on what you're planning to use it for, there are some less expensive devices that are worth considering, eg. for about $90 shipped to the US

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/546571245-Mele-A2000-TV...

I just received one and installed Debian squeeze on it, following the instructions here http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000...

Shipping took about a month, but now that it's here it's as good as I expected.
For swapping lines I recommend following shortcuts:

" Move a line of text using ALT+[jk] or Comamnd+[jk] on mac
nmap <M-j> mz:m+<cr>`z
nmap <M-k> mz:m-2<cr>`z
vmap <M-j> :m'>+<cr>`<my`>mzgv`yo`z
vmap <M-k> :m'<-2<cr>`>my`<mzgv`yo`z

if has("mac") || has("macunix")
nmap <D-j> <M-j>
nmap <D-k> <M-k>
vmap <D-j> <M-j>
vmap <D-k> <M-k>
endif
This is why I want a national healthcare service. Let's all form one giant company, one big single pool, for health insurance purposes.
Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing Macs in businesses, but I've never known a MBP user who didn't carry along a VGA dongle.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880

> Is the future of professionals going to be Windows?

No.
You are forgetting the primary question here: What is in it for Apple to cater to users who couldn't give a crap about a nice and polished enclosure? They are happy to play in the premium segment.
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I'll chime in here as I'm currently working on an app that uses MapKit extensively. MKMapViews work in pretty much the same way as they did in iOS 5, no breaking changes.

The one thing that did break in my case was the feature of my app that opened up a walking route in the old Maps app. On iOS 5 this is done by redirecting any maps.google.com URL requests to the Maps app but of course this doesn't work with the new method. Thankfully they've replaced this with a generic API that allows you to programmatically create a routing request (no more string concatenation!) and pass it to any app which implements the required protocol for handling it, right now that's just the Maps app but I'm sure that selection will expand once iOS 6 is out.