skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why you build your own. http://tonymacx86.com/. Twice the power that Apple provides for half the price. Stability is not compromised, just the Apple tower design.
Via a Thunderbolt dongle, apparently.
It's also an area where there's a lower cost of pivoting.

When you combine that with an area that will realize returns more quickly than traditional businesses, you have a strong incentive to "MVP" your processes often and early.
Very nice. Every year I am getting more and more tempted to make the switch from Windows to OS X. I like my iPhone but have always preferred Windows to OS X however I am not very excited with the way Microsoft are taking things with Windows 8.

Also I love the hardware and design. They only company who comes close to Apple's design is Asus in my opinion and even then they are still not quite there.

Does anyone know if the SSD is a standard SATA drive or a custom built in one (i.e. not user upgradable)?
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Good point. It might be more useful to have access to deserts and other region without much rain or clouds. California has both.
I just did the search, and the MeetingBurner name does NOT appear in GoToMeeting's ad copy anymore.
Congrats Fred and Co - hope this was the exit you wanted and deserved.
Which sites sell torrent files or magnet URIs?
I don't see the point of this. The images load far too slowly.
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People said that Macs were glorified toys until Windows made GUIs commonplace. I don't know what the future holds but I'm pretty convinced that it is not a hybrid OS like Windows 8.
"You find a spy in East Germany and it's a one-time incident. But with technology, you find one op and you start pulling the thread and all sorts of ops come out of the woodwork."

Finding a spy in East Germany and finding a stuxnet are both one time incidents. The next step is processing the spy/malware and learning as much as possible as you can about your enemy; how did the malware propagate, how did the spy enter east germany, who did the spy/malware communicate with and how, etc. I do not think they are any different.

What do you mean by separation of operations?
I'm a firm believer that the president gets final call on what's secret and what's not. If that wasn't the case, you'd have the intelligence agencies basically running around unfettered.

I also understand that it's an election year, and the party that is out of power is going to do their best to make everything into a crisis.

Having said all of that, when the administration releases information that affects programs that might have taken large sums of money to develop over many years, that might have many more years of usefulness, that has the potential to change the geopolitical landscape for the country for the worse, and that draws attention from every hacker on the planet? It's a little more serious than the usual election year nonsense.

My concern is that I do not believe the country received any benefit at all from the release, and the harm could go for quite some while. Quite frankly when things like this happens it helps make a strong case for the idea that the agencies _should_ keep things from oversight, and I think that's the worst part of the whole thing. We need to get rid of a lot of the secrecy we have -- perhaps 99% or more -- but the things that remain secret should be soberly treated as such. Time will tell what kind of damage has really been done after all the smoke clears. Hopefully not much, but I doubt it.
I have a late 2011 Air and it's worth the upgrade from the 2010 Air (which I had before that). I won't be upgrading to the new Air, cause the one I have does very well, but the new 15" MBP is definitely tempting
And what about walking and cycling directions? Walking and transit used to be on iOS, and cycling has been on Android for a while now. It's going to be a shame to lose that functionality on iOS.
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It always shocks me tha Finder doesn't have cmd-X cut... cutting is by far the most frequent operation I do in other non-dual-pane file managers. But what do you like better about windows explorer? Finder's "view as columns" makes it feel a little bit more powerful to me.
Trans 101: Imagine one morning you wake up and you're a woman - but you're still thinking like a man. Everything about your body feels wrong, everything about how you're expected to behave feels wrong. That's it in a nutshell.

Part of the reason my wardrobe grew is that I actually like my body now and want to show it off. Part of it's that women are expected to put more effort into how their clothes coordinate, and generally allowed to dress more flamboyantly.

(There are also lots of nerdy transwomen out there who keep on dressing Geek Casual after the transition. I am not one of them.)
Welcome to the new reality. The speed at which Google can release Android and the speed at which manufactorer's can implement/upgrade Android are two very, very different things. And unlike Android, Apple does not have this release/implement gap.

Because less than 8% of Android users use 4.0 and Google is already about to unveil 5.0, we have to compare differently.

Google may have released these features into the wild faster than Apple, but when iOS6 launches this summer and then passes the Android 4.0 install base in what, 2 weeks, there will then be more Apple users using these features than Android users.

I think that will be the future going forward: Apple will take longer to release a feature, but will reach critical mass for the feature much, much faster than Google.

And like Windows and it's hardware partners, I think that there is jack-diddly-squat that Google can do about it. They can whine but they have no say, as their in-house devices sell like crap compared to Samsung's flagships or Apple's phones.

I think hardware will move similarly: Android manufacturer, eager for ANY advantage, will implement brand new technology on their product lines. They can also pull this off because they don't push iPhone-like quantities (minus the rare Samsung flagship launch). It's easier to put brand new tech in a device that is only selling 50,000/mo and will hit maybe 1 million total, because you don't have to have a source for 5,000,000 of that part by launch day...
This converter just came up in the store: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD504ZM/A?
Based on the job adverts I keep seeing in London for mobile and Xbox developers at Skype (and some common sense), I think it's fair to say that Skype will be a first class citizen on WP (and Xbox) in the future.

Skype is fairly poor on WP7.x I agree, but it does the job for voice calls in the interim while Microsoft work on making the carriers into even dumber pipes than they are already.

I think it would be wise not to underestimate Microsoft's vision, even if they do seem a little chaotic at times.
They're selling an adapter for a very reasonable $10: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD504
I noticed that too. I hope Google will release their own native apps for iOS before too long, unless Apple dings them for 'duplicating existing functionality'. I love having the transit directions in SF, it's pretty well done across Muni, BART, and CalTrain.
>Lack of gigabit Ethernet on the big pro air makes me sad, though.

Presumably the logic is that its all wifi these days anyway.
Your argument with permutations of inputs is wrong IMO - this argument can be used to claim that any functionality which calls user code (through callbacks, inheritance, whatever, functors) is also defective. Strictly it may be so, but the defectiveness is massively outweighed by the convenience - the most obvious example is calling a late-binding function - but it extends to easier to grasp examples like the C qsort function or EnumWindows in Win32.

Should we not make library calls because the programmer who wrote the library might have, maybe, possibly, screwed us over in some way perhaps, or because the mechanism can be broken with faulty input?

You trust, potentially, the same programmers every time you trust an executable loader to start running your code... which is pretty much every single time.
I suspect this is the reference:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4371&cpage=1#comment-381328

Luke Leighton writes:

i spoke to dr stallman about the assessment concepts presented here, because i think they’re fantastic and should be more formalised, and adopted more widely including by the FSF. unfortunately he was sufficiently upset by the personal references that he can’t possibly recommend that. what’s the best way to proceed?
Hi, I'm one of the developers who's been working on this project at dotCloud, and more specifically on the twitter service. The example you're citing shows what I figured was the shortest way to try out the twitter API integration. And you're absolutely right for saying that as soon as your app goes public, it sucks.

This is why this call only has to be made one time ; the key and secret are then securely persisted into the database and the consumer secret can be ommitted in all subsequent calls. Alternatively, we also provide an API endpoint that you can just curl to provide the consumer key/secret. Our "detailed" documentation (http://js.dotcloud.com/doc.html#c4) is more thorough on that matter.

Hope that answers your question!

Edit: sorry for the late response, happened to be out of town for the last three days. Bad timing. :(
The mind-blowing part is their ability to consistently deliver a stream of updates. The mind-blowing part must be seen a step back, not year to year.

But you're absolutely right. There's nothing in this one single keynote that's like WAPOWW!!!!
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Good idea.. we need to find those and activate them
Most people believe that bottled water is just tap water marked up a few thousand percent, it would be interesting if these desalinator plants sold bottled water. They could run at a profit apparently, and they could make an interesting argument:

"Conserve our precious natural water sources by drinking -Wapure-, purified water."

This would then make it a good thing to drink bottled water since you would be keeping cows and what not alive.
I imagine it needs the memory bandwidth of a real card with dedicated RAM to even just composite windows fast, so the air is not an option. This has the benefit of making a bigger difference between the two lines again too, although the 13 inch looks a weak offering now.
The problem will be when Xcode stops working on Snow Leopard.
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Here is my point of view as a Search Engine Marketer:

- Go to meeting is probably using Dynamic Keyword Insertion (DKI) in their ads. This dynamically inserts a user's search query into the ad copy. From looking at the blog post, this seems to be true for the second screenshot. For the 1st screenshot, it seems that they are indeed building copy with "Meeting Burner" on it.

Whether this was suggested by they in-house Adwords person, an agency or anyone else, this is plain wrong. Not sure if you have any relationship with anyone from the Google Adwords team, but if you do, it would be good to get in touch with them.

Also, here is more info regarding this: https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Ad-Approvals-and-Adv...

Here is the Google Adwords Trademark Complaint Form: https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmcomplaint

If you guys need some help with your Adwords campaigns feel free to shoot me an email (HN_user_name@gmail.com). I'd be more than happy to volunteer couple hours to optimize your account or help you with sitelinks or retargetting.
I'm pretty sure that the drawing system emulates the x2 resolution boost introduced in iOS devices - apps will draw in points, and 1pt = 2px for a retina Macbook. Switching between 1x and 2x drawing should be seamless - one exception being that images would have to be reloaded when going from 1x to 2x.
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Also cutting out other forms of transport (e.g. public transport and walking) makes maps pretty useless for me.
I think the sentiment he is expressing is that studios complain that piracy is killing their industry. Yet, both piracy and profits are way up. Thus, the argument that "we have to do something about piracy!" and asking for more anti-piracy enforcement, is obviously incorrect.

Note: The goal is NOT to make money for those creating movies. Copyright exists to make sure the public gets more works created. Granting a temporary monopoly on the content produced is only done so that the public ends up better off. Please keep the actual goal in mind.

If works are being produced and being made available, then we're doing just fine. Copyright needs revisiting if we see signs that content production is going down. These days, we're seeing quite the opposite, with more things being produced by even more people.
Add Fedora to the list of choices, and I'm in.
I know that true hackers don't anti-alias monotype fonts, but I have been using anti-aliased Consolas for a few years now. It is a font best-designed coding books use (http://www.abookapart.com/), and it should only look better, not worse, on print-like display.
thanks - couldn't tell from the picture.
I hope airlines start using PassBook. This feature has a lot of potential.
>It's that way because the Boeing CST has its own software, as does the Lockheed's Orion and the Soyuz and every unmanned spacecraft ever developed. Development costs and quality could be greatly improved if all of them shared a single codebase.

No, it's that way because nobody else in the world is using the specific hardware that they're using in the exact same configuration. Nobody is using the same input sensors. Nobody is using the exact same engine configuration or power.

Nobody has the same amount of fault tolerance or backup hardware.

That's what I meant.

Compared to a browser, where most of the more tricky hardware configuration issues are handled entirely by the OS.
I would say the EU makes thread of war bigger. Peacefully trading is much better then forcing them all under the same system.

We can see that happening, do you think people would say that Germany is trying it economicly instead of with war. This would not be the case without the EU.
Probably inside intelligence. It would be really weird otherwise Google announcing their 3D map just before Apple announced theirs.
Awesome feature, trying it out right now.
Or a BSD-derived OS with a hat-tip to NextStep?
Agreed, it's not worthwhile to engage costly App Engine frontends for a memcache lookup.

You could add (e.g.) varnish to cache the redirects.
Nope, you need a "Apple MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Converter"
>but the iPad is no more than than a glorified toy.

>Have you been living under a rock?

No, but it seems you have.

If I've said it before I've said it 1,000 times: Just because it doesn't fit your use case doesn't mean it doesn't fit that of others.
Why use BeautifulSoup when LXML is available on Google App Engine?
This article draws some truly insane conclusions, that dropping Aero Glass had anything to do with "dumbing" down Windows to put it on phones is ridiculous.

The real key here is integration, it's more in the line of Smart Glass - having a compatible and familiar UX on all their lines of products, and I think it's about time.
Sched.org uses Zapier to build their own Hubot: Notorious B.O.T.
Just saw this:

"Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later"

Pretty disappointing.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
Except it isn't. The real problem is that the RJ-45 connector is huge and antiquated, so it can't fit on the MBA form factor. I work in a lot of places where GE makes a lot more sense (inside a datacenter, in places which prohibit wireless, or places where you want to be connected to multiple different networks). I guarantee the $99 (?) thunderbolt to gig-e dongle gets left on a cable somewhere several times, which will suck, same as the mbp/tb to DVI things.

Kind of silly given that the new Macbook Pro Air HD Super 15 has a better display than anything else I own, so I'm not going to necessarily want to put a 1920x1200 24" or even 2560x1600 30" in the center of my desk with it -- I'd treat the laptop display as primary, on a stand, with a keyboard. But Apple doesn't make a docking solution, and the Belkin/Matrox docks have been vaporware for over a year.
I'm at WWDC now on my MacBook Air and wish that I remembered my ethernet adaptor...
ConEmu - The Windows Terminal/Console/Prompt we've been waiting for?
Tech specs for new MPB: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...
As someone using the 2011 Macbook (bought about a month ago) I have to say some things really annoy me in OSX, some things less so. I'm slowly getting used to the Mac way of doing things, but still occasionally cmd-L to lock my screen only to find I have to go to a hot corner instead.
Disclaimer: I'm authoer of MessagePack for C++/Ruby and committer of one for Java.

As for strings, JSON has to allocate memory and copy to deserialize strings because strings are escaped.

MessagePack does't have to allocate/copy because the serialized format of strings is same as the format in memory. But it depends on the implementation whether actually it doesn't allocate/copy.

C++ and Ruby implementations try to suppress allocation and copying (zero-copy). But Java implementation doesn't support zero-copy feature so far (we have plan to do so. Here is "TODO" comment: https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/blob/master/src/main...).

As for the other types, C++ implementation (and new Ruby implementation which is under development) has memory pool which optimizes those memory allocations petterns. But it's hard to implement such optimizations for Java because JVM (and Dalvik VM) doesn't allow to hook object allocation.
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> The types of people that spend time on HN don't spend time in the real world, where the current state of affairs is very different from what we think it is. Apple gets a lot of hype, and no doubt the iPhone is very successful (because it was a new type of product), but the iPad is no more than than a glorified toy.

This is quite the non-sequitur. Apple products are successful precisely because they appeal to people in the real world. Your comment about the iPad being a toy is a timeless refrain that has been leveled against every single Apple product since the original Macintosh. That time, they lost to Microsoft because A) the Mac was way too expensive, B) the ecosystem was too small, and only by the standardization of the PC was a viable ecosystem able to emerge and C) Adoption was driven by businesses who purchase by checklists rather than by personal appeal. These same downsides no longer exist, and the iPad launch is one of the most successful new products in the history of the world.

Probably most on HN are hoping for MS to hit a home run with Windows 8 if for no other reason than to foster competition and innovation. But the other thing you have to realize is that Microsoft's "no compromises" approach is insanely difficult to pull off. It's much harder than what Apple has done, and the risk of creating a confusing product that does not resonate with customers is incredibly high.
> They completely overhauled Office
Overhauling the Office UI is pretty much inertia; they seem to keep fiddling with it and honestly I think I'd prefer that they just left it alone.

>They took the gaming market and owned it.
Xbox360 is a distant second to Wii and only a nose ahead of PS3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars#Worldwide_sales_fi...). While it's certainly done better than its predecessor, I think describing it as "owning" is a bit of an exaggeration.
Wow, if only we had something like that on windows.
If you think all of a sudden iPads are going to stop selling when windows 8 tablets come out you must have been the one living under a rock. People don't go out and buy iPads because they want tablet computers. They go out and buy iPads because they want iPads. They want the app store, they want the integration with their computers and iTunes and their phones.

Windows 8 tablets will sell, but not to the same demographic.

As for Xbox vs a TV made by apple, you'll be wrong again, mark my words. Things that come out of cupertino sell. Project Glass sounds like a response to Airplay to me.

Overall, you're trolling because you're a microsoft fan.
This post is full on.

> But the Germans would not have agreed if it hadn't also brought direct advantages. The one big advantage is this: trading in the Eurozone is much much easier and cheaper with a single currency.

They agree to it in part because the became a garantee that it will be stable but I agree that the Euro has some quite good propertys.
Ubuntu is just an example but Red Hat and Fedora would be obvious choices, especially Red Hat for business users as that is used by many US/EU government and military departments already...
We live in a free society, and Stallman is free to have an opinion, and to interpret things strictly or loosely.

He is a fanatic or an extremist? Absolutely. But he continues to attract interest, and his contributions to society are real and significant.

Society needs fanatics. We need someone to question that moral righteousness of things like copyright, or to set a boundary for the meaning of "open source". If he's personally difficult for Mr. Raymond to deal with, so what? How would the world improve if everyone sat around getting along with each other?

Raymond's post is self-serving, and more about reminding us about how important he is while criticizing someone else.
I've been using Forklift for a while now instead of Finder. Much less braindead, reminds me of Directory Opus on the Amiga. Probably need to spend more time customising it so it's as good as Midnight Commander but it's getting there.
How do you bring an anonymous user to court to defend? I don't quite get your question (but I'd like to).
New KDE Telepathy version features audio and video calls
A funny thing too: having an HR manager tends to automatically increase this cost. ;-)

NOTE: Not a strike against HR, just reflecting a reality that salary figures for HR people probably disproportionately understate their overall cost. HR people are much more unlikely to work at a company where the only compensation is salary.
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The should have stoped spending when they saw tax revenue going down and spending going up.

They waited way to long.
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Quote from article:
"Twenty-three years ago, the Supreme Court made clear that a criminal defendant does not have a right to use someone else's money to finance his defense."

Is this implying that the guy who wants his videos back is a criminal defendant?
everything he says becomes a top story on hacker news. unbelievable.
Santorum is a true believer.

There's a difference between a leader who drinks the kool-aid, and a leader who mixes the kool-aid. Kool-aid drinkers by definition cannot set the agenda.
If you test something, delete that something.

Bir şeyi test ederseniz, bunu silin.
> i.e. conference tables have MagSafe power adapters zip tied to them semi-permanently, since that's what almost everyone uses.

It's too bad that Apple is moving to MagSafe II with the new retina MacBook Pro. I guess we'll all have to carry around adapters now: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD504
Airs shouldn't be that bad. IIRC, Linus runs one.
I don't like Air. I don't like hd4000 graphics. As a student, I still need to use photoshop.

A student can be pro.