skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment, this feels very much like a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Well, sales are down" or "Sales are such a small percentage of revenue"... that they question keeping the product line around. Given that there haven't been any major updates, yes, sales are down.

I suspect if they hadn't put out a new model of the iPhone since the 3GS, sales of the iPhone would probably decline over the last 2-3 years.
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They also switched from 4:3 to 16:10 and now to 16:9

I like the 16:10, but the drop in screen real estate going to 16:9 is too much for me. I ended up getting a Thinkpad W500 from a Lenovo outlet.

I'm tempted to go buy another and store while there's till a chance new ones can be found.

Looking at the ZaReason offerings I couldn't quite see who they are meant for. Poor resolution, no option for track point, these are not developer machines.
They did post about the screen aspect ratio issues on their blog. The problem is the panel manufacturers prefer those aspect ratios (they get more panels out of 16:9 than 16:10). The estimate was that Lenovo would need an advance order of tens of thousands to get the panel manufacturers to retool for the aspect ratios you and I want.

> It's almost like Lenovo WANTS me to switch to Apple.

Huh? Their 15" is 16:10 too. Lenovo lets you do 1920x1080 on their 15" while the highest resolution from Apple is 1680x1050. (The "HD+" resolution is the lowest Lenovo do, not the highest. Yes their mnemonics are stupid, and thankfully they actually clearly state the resolution these days.)

And the Thinkpads use non-glossy screens. For me that rules out everyone else.

http://blog.lenovo.com/perspectives/display-ratio-change-aga...
So, a standard functionality for web applications is commonly referred to as CRUD. Many applications exist solely to let users Create records, Retrieve and Update existing records or Delete records. It's a very common pattern that, while it isn't very interesting in and of itself, will give you exposure to all the parts of a web application without bogging you down in questions of functionality (what does it mean for all the associated foo's if a bar record has its created date deleted?).

To do this, you'll need some mechanism to store records (usually a database of some sort, but flat files can work), some sort of server process to handle user requests (this is where a framework like Rails and possibly a server to contain this process come into the picture) and a web interface where users can actually input data into your system. If you hear the term "full stack" before, it roughly means this picture (and note that this doesn't really correspond to MVC if you've heard of that).

The canonical example in academia is to do a course scheduling app: students enroll in college and register for classes. Other typical options are the aforementioned to-do application or inventory for a store. Really, this is just window-dressing though - if I were you, I'd think it's a fine goal to have a good understanding of everything that happens from the moment a user first sees the interface to your app until the moment the database is done storing their changes.

And, if you really want a language recommendation, I'd go with either Ruby using Rails or Java using Play.
You assume all of the Amazon traffic was organic. He directed all of his marketing efforts to the book on amazon.com; presumably he could have captured a good number of those purchases elsewhere.

I think the real issue is less about costs and more about how Amazon hides big revenues behind "delivery fees." Most platforms (Apple, Google, PayPal, even Amazon in the AWS world) that take a percentage cut + special fees separate the special fees to mirror actual costs (e.g. credit card processing). In this case Amazon just used it as another place to add significant markup, presumably in a way that was not expected.

Should he have read the contract more closely? Yeah, no question. But it still strikes me as sleazy on Amazon's part, even though I agree with you that a lot of what he did was only possible because of what Amazon's done.
Yes, It'd be painful for a time, but they'd recovery much faster. But of course, there's the scare of that becoming the fall of the Euro. And also, the other countries are not very happy to receive a lot of Spaniards. And with Spain letting the Euro go there'd be a lot of immigrants (unless of course, they let the Schengen Agreement fall too).
Anybody else having the overlay about 30 pixels higher than the image of the browser? or is it just me.
I wish you the best, like I said it looks fantastic. You can definitely tell that's there's quality and substance behind the product.
Web pages already have sandboxes.
No, the Thunderbolt Display definitely requires Thunderbolt.
On the online apple store, the retina MBP is upgradable to 16GB of ram for $200.
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You don't want to Osborne your existing line.
In my experience, Linux hibernation problems are down to not allocating enough swap space. I don't know if Ubuntu Precise makes a large enough swap file on the default installation - I always go the manual route (fumbling around), since I always have had hibernation problems otherwise.
It is curious where to draw the line between a faux pas, sexism, and misogyny.

Most men are not misogynists and don't purposely make sexist remarks. I agree with this:

"I don’t think that they intentionally set out to perpetuate the male gaze or to insult women or to discourage women from our industry. They just didn’t think about it."

Men sometimes forget what offends women: talking about blow jobs, appreciating a woman's curves in a tight white dress, passing along "brogrammer" memes (there was a post on HN how this excludes women and is therefore sexist), giving masculine names to coding projects like "Testosterone," hiring booth babes, etc.

Men need to remember the tech industry is not a "boy's club" (even if it feels like it with our nerf guns, foosball tables, and Beer Fridays) and change their thinking/behavior accordingly.

We don't need to go around educating everyone in feminist theory and second-wave feminism to fix this. Just say: Dude, that is probably offensive.
A Fresh Look At Features, Capabilities And Benefits Can Make A Sale
Step one is to make this cost transparent to people considering selling via Kindle (and to readers who care about this sort of thing). I'm preparing my first novel for sale right now. It's a novel, not a travel book, so I'm basically just delivering a cover image and text so I would expect my "delivery fees" will be much lower, but I didn't even realize that it would be in the realm of possibility that delivery fees would add up to any kind of significant expense. How could I know? Amazon doesn't advertise this anywhere. So we need blog posts like this in order to inform authors so they know that there's strong incentive to look into the other markets.
seems the ivy bridge is 20 degrees c hotter than the sandybridge chipset when overclocked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_(microarchitecture)
I don't get his complaint. I have written books for Springer-Verlag, McGraw-Hill, J. Reilly, Apress, etc., etc., and I am used to seeing 10% to 15% royalty.

About 50% royalty from Amazon seems pretty good, but regular publishers provide a lot of help producing a book.

Publishing books with Apple's AppStore also looks pretty good.

It is all good(!), one just has to appreciate having multiple markets available and choose which ones you like.
74% of advance users used the search bar VS 54% of beginners using it. Wonder why.
My macbook pro from 2008 survived a motorcycle accident and became accidental back armor. Still worked up until a few months ago until the mainboard went kaputt.

I'll rate that as damn good. Only damage was cosmetic other than that it was in great shape. I think you may be rating the macbook pro too low. I've seen people drop their thinkpad and having them go boom.

Yes yes anecdotal evidence blah blah. But I place a lot of props to that macbook pro surviving a motorcycle accident. Its been retired along with the helmet that saved me. Just my $0.02
Exactly. Amazon isn't providing storage and delivery nearly as much as they're providing eyeballs. (The "hot list" is a self-fulfilling prophecy -- you don't need to be incandescent to make the list, but being on the list tends to increase sales -- as are recommendations.) If you think you can drum up the eyeballs yourself, then go for it. Just be prepared for vanity press results if you're not all over the marketing.
I don't disagree with you, but as I understood it the author is partly dismayed by the fact that the delivery fee is so large. Even if every copy were delivered via 3G (which is unlikely), $2.58 for an 18 MB file seems steep. Sure, on one level it's not his place to complain -- he still probably made a boatload by leveraging Amazon's massive sales platform -- but I also understand that pricing schemes like that can feel like a bit of a rip-off (e.g. $20 printers with $40 ink cartridges).
He is making an entirely justified complaint that Amazon charges unreasonable fees. The idea that any and all corporate behavior is fine simply because "it says so in the contract" is ridiculous.

You aren't actually paying attention to what the author wrote - he even specifically talked about how Amazon's Kindle platform provides a good experience for readers and has accounted for the majority of his sales. His post doesn't display any ignorance of the points you are making - instead, he acknowledges them but makes the entirely valid point that charging several dollars for a "delivery fee" of a digital book is OBVIOUS BS!

There is a huge disconnect between the attitude of "any price that people will pay is a fair price" and the fact that economic systems require that parties engage in transactions in good faith. To me, it seems blatantly obvious that Amazon is engaging in the bad-faith practice of trying to conceal the true costs of their service by loading a lot of the price into a "delivery charge" that is absurd.

This kind of thing is a very old game in business, but that doesn't make it ok. Just because something is common and legal doesn't make it appropriate. A large amount of standard business practices are deliberate, but legal, rip-offs - and calling a rip-off a rip-off is a good thing.
I say the future of desktop software is going to involve Linux, finally.

Both Windows and OS X are becoming walled-garden tablet-centric shitfests.
exactly. I use it on my laptop (linux) to save space.
Hope this increases the adoption of the API, now that the API is available on devices like iPad and iPhone too !!
So many fallacies in one post.

1. You conflate RMS being supremely talented programmer with his political strategy. ESR criticized the latter and never doubted - but actually emphasized - the former.

2. Anybody who actually read ESR article knows that RMS was never criticized for his ethnic origin, faith, belief or way of life - only for his political strategy and manner of achieving this goal.

3. Advocating violence? Care to give any proof of that? This goes so far that I actually checked the profile to see maybe this is just an anon trolling going on here. Such accusation needs serious proof.

4. Ad hominem attacks on ESR don't add anything to your argument as they do not defend RMS in any way (even if ESR were nobody, his argument still could be valid on merits) - and they are also completely false.

5. One does not any special qualification to comment on anything. One needs only to make sense and be able to build a solid argument. At which you seem to be failing now, since your argument seems to sum up to "RMS is great, ESR is nobody" and a bunch of factually incorrect statements. Such argument in no way can be persuasive to defend RMS's political strategy and rhetoric which ESR is criticizing.
Yes, somewhat. Models are a useful tool to see what happens when the science is known. They work well to check if you understand your theory well: You model it and experiment with it at the same time. If you model matches the real world then you are good to go.

But if you try to make a model based only on your observations, without also being able to experiment, then that's not science, that's tautology.

Your model will do whatever you want, and you have no way of knowing if it has anything to do with the real world because you can not run multiple experiments. In some cases if you wait long enough you may randomly get enough variation in the real world to be confident in your model (for example stellar evolution).

But using a model to predict something you have never seen in the real world? That's not science, that's speculation.
Seconded, if it includes PostGIS. I'd love to have something in the cloud with operations over more than just points for small hobby projects.
Maybe kindles are manufactured at a loss and these delivery fees are then part of the device cost?
Agreed.

Amazon charging 30%, then another $2.50 is sketchy, why not just charge 50%, or at least avertise the price as a fixed $2.50 plus 30%? Questionable on Amazons part, without a doubt.
For calling the last three recessions surveys did better than economists' forecasts. You see similar results for forecasting and reporting current price inflation. I don't really buy that the common American man is an idiot.

"Elites" have pushed most idiotic economic and foreign policy initiatives against the popular will. Americans have generally had to be tricked by lies and expensive PR campaigns into supporting wars, for example. Their initial judgments were sound.
To me, 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB of RAM on a super thin, light, laptop is a pretty big upgrade. I used to be on a maxed out 17", happily switched to a maxed out 11", and am now beyond psyched to get my maxed 15".
Osborne? Never heard this term. What's this from?
What tools do you use to track the users ?
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My rule is to only set "Only Me" permissions for any app I add on Facebook. That way, I can deal with all the news links, socialcam nonsensical tracking and sleep (somewhat peacefully).

Getting back to the topic, I have seriously considered telling friends/family on facebook to change their permissions but don't want to embarass them into thinking that they should be embarassed about the videos they watch.
Well...it's Europe. As a member of the Euro, Spain has vastly less control over their monetary policy than any truly sovereign state on the face of the planet. Conversely, as a member of the EU, they also have vastly less support from a central government than any province or state would have. They also face an incredibly sclerotic bureaucracy and a non-functional political process, dominated by groups and factions which (to put it mildly) do not have their best interests at heart.

To a first approximation, there is nowhere else on Earth where this debt crisis would be simultaneously so serious and so hard to deal with. You can't treat this like you were dealing with the US, or China, South-East Asia. This is Europe and that means that, barring a miracle, we're all[1] probably screwed.

[1]: Well, anyone who relies on the global economy for income, goods, or services, anyhow. Which would be, uh, all of us on HN, at a minimum...
Personally, I'd be more depressed by something that says "Amazon charges authors $2.58 to deliver an e-book (after 30% cut)" than some big fancy number like that 129,000%. It's more meaningful.
A wire is a commitment, an adapter is a training wheel. The intent is for you to grow out of needing it. Apple's guesses about what you'll eventually stop needing have been pretty good so far (e.g. ditching floppy drives, going to USB-primary early).
> charging several dollars for a "delivery fee" of a digital book is OBVIOUS BS!

Do you think that the largest file sharing service (S3) and the largest public cloud computing infrastructure (EC2) in the world just operate for free? Digital delivery fees help pay for the millions in hardware, software, infrastructure and maintenance costs for these services, which Kindle uses extensively.
Most Kindle purchases are coming from a Kindle, which never has a consumer data plan. 3G Kindles' cell usage is paid by Amazon.
This is brilliant. Next they have to automate it.
So the $2.85 delivery isn't so much the digital download but the digital download + the kindle subsidy.
Dell starts a $100 million startup fund
My bet is Apple is paying them to create the components and gets a time frame to keep them for themselves before they can be generally available.

That or Samsung just doesn't care about being the first to the gate.
Looks like you can get it cheaper than $19 if you get a reserved instance.
Reminds me of one of the "extras" clips on a DVD season of Star Trek: TNG. One of the special effects dudes said something like, "If you can't make it cool, make it blue."

Maybe there is something inherently more likeable about the cooler hues than the warmer ones, and the science of visual artistry has honed the practice over time.
If anyone else feels this way, please ping me and I'll be happy to sell you my current MacBook Pro at the same price as the new MacBook Pro.
I've been running Ubuntu and windows on Thinkpads for years on the "that doesn't work so I don't do it" basis and am perfectly happy. So happy, in fact, that I can't even remember what feature doesn't work on my current machines, if any (X61 and R61). You make a valid point and certainly it would be wonderful to see better integration, but still: 1. performance certainly "feels" better than running windows on the same machines, 2. I spend my day typing and the MacBook's keyboard feels like going back to my ZX Spectrum 3. the 5-6 hours battery I get from an 8-cell are enough for me, thank you.
According to the technical specs, the new MBP will support both 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 as "scaled" resolutions. Usually "scaled" meant you'd get blurrovision but with such a high DPI screen, scaling up to 2880x1800 might be bearable? I'm intrigued to see how it looks because 1920x1200 at 15" would be ideal.

UPDATE: 2880 / 1920 = 1.5 and the iPad 3's Retina display (at least) is a very precise linear RGBRGBRGBRGB arrangement - http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipad-3... - so running 1920 wide on 2880 would essentially result in "pixels" of RGBR BRGB RGBR BRGB and so on with an extra "shared" green across two pixels. I'm NOT a display or color expert and really hope someone who is will respond but that seems to me like it could render rather nicely with some fringing between sharply contrasting colors (e.g. yellow and blue or green and magenta).
While I generally prefer the classic keyshapes, my main problem with the new Thinkpad keyboards is the removed row.

Instead of the Insert/Delete/Home/End/PgUp/PgDown key block in the upper right corner, the keys are put into the function key row. This also means that the gaps between F4&F5 and F8&F9 are removed. They also removed the menu key and replaced it with Print for some reason.

With the old Thinkpads, you could just pick them up and start typing without having to learn too many idiosyncrasies of the laptop keymapping. This is not the case anymore. When you work both on a laptop and a regular keyboard, this gets really painful.
They charge him $.15/MB to delivery the book[1]. Cell carriers charge you ~$15/200MB = $.075/MB for data. Certainly a markup, and it gets better as more people use WiFi, but not 129000%.

[1] https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O...
This comment is wrong on just so many levels.

You seem to think that browser are less secure than running native software. This is totally absurd. And this blog entry shows exactly that. In order to bypass the advanced sandboxing techniques employed by modern browsers you have to build up complex chains of dozens of bugs.

This is very different with desktop software. Desktop software is protected far less than code running in the browser.

So the idea that running apps in the browser makes you more vulnerable than running native applications seems very unrealistic.

Also you seem to have the very nostalgic view that the web should be just static websites with a few links in between. This concept again seems completely absurd. From my point of view as a PHP programmer the dynamic web is pretty much the best thing that happened to mankind. It allows you to run software without having to install it. From everywhere. From the the point of view of the end user this is still true. Just look around. Look at Facebook, Twitter and stuff.
It is interesting that the percentage of people using the back button decreases with expertise (98% for beginner vs 92% for advanced).

I find it more amazing how many people use the forward button. I think I've probably used the forward button less than 10 times in the 18 years I've been using the web.

To the 60% of users who use it - when do you find it useful?
Not to contradict your general point, but the i5/i7 MBPs from early 2011 onwards support 16GB total - it was just not a config Apple sold for some reason.
That could easily be fixed by bringing the price back down into reality (i.e. 30-50% more expensive than equivalent x86-hardware, but not 300% more expensive).

Currently you'd have to be lobotomized to buy a MacPro at this price point. You can buy literally 2-3 "beige boxes" with similar specs for that money.

The shiny case and OSX make up for a lot, but there's a limit to what people will bear.
Fair point, but don't you think It'd be nice if they advertised the price for said fee, or at least provided a chart for fees/mb? It seems like it is a "hidden cost", not outlined in detail, leaving the client in the dark, which appears to be the problem here.
Could it be that people search using the URL box? It's the biggest, most familiar box, so maybe beginners users just type into it.
Fun :). I did something similar with a bunch of photos of a stuffed monkey. I made a music video instead of an interactive web app, though the latter would probably not be too difficult since I wrote the software using Processing. http://sporksmith.wordpress.com/travels-of-code-monkey/
I think the complaint focused on other costs that were pushed onto the author. If amazon presented a larger cost structure (increase their per-unit charge) but covered costs like content delivery, I don't think the author would have as much of a problem.
That's a nice feature, but still looks half-baked for me.
It's now ios6 and you still need to jailbreak your iphone to blacklist people harassing you with phone calls or imessage.
What I do need is a blacklist feature which send to /dev/null people I don't want to talk to or receive imessage or sms from, and the DND feature looks more like a whitelist only available to phone calls.
Maybe in ios 7 ? It seems like a basic feature and I wonder which Apple Developper Program rule prevent to develop such an app available in the app store.
I'm part of the 0.1% :)
That begs the question, what is the future of the desktop?

It's not a knock on Linux, but if the mass market moves to tablets and smartphones (not sure if you count laptops as desktops), owning the desktop is going to be like owning the mainframe market. It doesn't disappear but it's not what it once was either.
I have two Hanns G 28" LCD monitors that are 1920x1200 that cost $220 each from a sale on Newegg.

I'm guessing you buy Apple products and have no idea how cheap non-Apple hardware can be?
Y'see, this is why The Oatmeal guy is a comic genius. He understands that while

"drawing of your mom seducing a bear"

is funny,

"drawing of your mom seducing a kodiak bear"

is hilarious.
I don't know what robomartin got but the Dell U2412M which is a decent 24" 1920x1200 IPS panel can be had for $300.
What you're trying to describe in the first paragraph is "having the same ABI". But that's not the only context where "binary compatibility" is used. In fact, in the fourth paragraph you are referencing the difference between source compatibility and binary compatibility: but in this case, binary compatibility requires not only a compatible ABI, but also the right set of system calls, libraries and assorted machinery that allows the compiled program to run.