skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a properly coded website should be able to handle a very wide variety of screen resolutions. Seems silly to have a desktop site serve different templates based on something as wildly varying as a screen resolution.
Replying again since this is getting downvoted so hard. I made two distinct points, one of which was corrected by tptacek, the other, which is the above, I still stand by.

There is a huge leap from "this is a technologically advanced piece of software" to "this is a virus written by the US government in collaboration with Mossad targeting evil regimes."

I fail to see why people believe it so irrational to practice caution here - some of the most technically sophisticated code ever written happened in darkened bedrooms on a school night; David Huffman invented what to this day remains one of the most efficient coding systems working alone on a term paper while still at school. This is the only example that comes to mind, but computing, perhaps more than any other field is littered with examples of small groups having huge effects.

Is it so hard to imagine some 20mb binary bundling SQLite and Lua might have been written outside of a heavily funded, super secret mountain base? I would posit more interesting than the existence of the code itself, is the behavior of otherwise seasoned computer nerds grasping desperately to the belief that this "weapon" could only be the creation of their own government, perhaps it is testament to little more than a failure of imagination.
Ask HN: What do you think of Hartli?
Just co-founded a start-up (the Chaos Collective) a couple weeks ago with one of my previous co-workers and we've put together our first experiment. His name is Hartli and he's virtual a web-design critic.

For example, check out what Harlti thinks of sites like Wikipedia:
http://hartli.com/facts?site=http://en.wikipedia.org#v=ed8d3b44c2eaa379998dfbbfc51334b8

In general, we want to make everything we build as open source as possible, but we're bootstrapping everything and want to find a way to make our new venture fair/sustainable.

I'm sure many of you have been down this road before. How do you balance open source with revenue? How do you get people to check out your projects and build momentum when they are still young?

We're super stoked about Hartli -- he's already checked out over 10,000 sites -- but have yet to put it to the real test of users, revenue, and long-term growth.

We're hoping to work on lots of little projects and experiments instead of building our new company around a single service or product. Here's what we have so far:
http://blog.chaoscollective.org

Any thoughts would be great. thanks!
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Only tangentially related, but what's the consensus on which "ultrabooks" look best to compete with MBP/MBA? I was hoping that Apple would make my choice for me, but I'm underwhelmed.

I'm personally surprised that the Lenovo X1 Carbon hasn't gotten more notice: 14 inch screen, 1600x900, made of carbon fiber, beautiful body, less than 3 lbs, embedded 3G connectivity.

Question marks seem to be battery (I've heard numbers ranging from 3.5 hours to 10 hours) and price (I'd wager around $1200ish?).

Skepticism around the claims of improved sound.

The Samsung Series 9 (also 1600x900, but 13.3 inch screen) also looks solid. Any others out or on the horizon worth noting?
The problem with them was that they were better than the Apple products of the time, thus killing Apple's margins.

(although, really, most Apple products of the mid 1990s were abortions of various kinds -- Performa and Centris especially, and the weird education-channel-specific stuff. Good Macs stopped with the IIfx and IIci and began again with something around 1998)
Though I somewhat agree with the premise, the author ruins all credibility with the statement 'such a decision is akin to buying a lottery ticket because somebody else just won a million-dollar prize'.

The success of a business is not a random event. It is a matter of learning and applying that learning to the development of a business.

University is not a necessity nor the only road to business success, and that is what Theil is proving. If a University education was an actual requirement, there wouldn't be so many successful business people without university degrees.

Where I think 20 under 20 fails is that the 20 entrepreneurs seem to feel that if they fail, they can always just go back to University. That isn't truly in the spirit of what Theil is trying to prove. But only time will tell how well it all works out.
Perhaps, but I find it unlikely that professional companies would let their workstations - Windows or OSX - get loaded with malware. In fact, I hardly encounter exploits or malware on PCs nowadays, and never at all in the few corporate environments I've been in.
> I’ve said it before and will say it again: Google made a mistake by deciding to oppose rather than ally with Apple on mobile.

I don't follow. Google would be better off making services for iOS and, say, BlackBerry or WebOS? And Apple would be in the same position of trying to build their own differentiating services?
The problem with the early attempt Apple made at inviting the clone market is that they didn't give it time to evolve. The first wave or two of IBM clones were a mess. A disaster. Compatibility problems galore. People who buy crap don't continue to buy it and they sure as hell don't recommend it. The crap PC clones died a quick death.

It didn't take long for the market to evolve and "grow up". Companies like Compaq surfaced. Very soon you had a million hardware ideas iterating from every angle trying to do it better and for less.

Today you can buy a PC notebook for a fraction of the cost of a Mac notebook --maybe a third or less. And, frankly, quality is excellent. Today you can walk into a place like Walmart and quite-literally grab almost any notebook computer and walk out with a quality product.

That's what Apple missed out on. Everyone got spooked as they watched the evolution begin and they pulled the plug.

Also, evolutionary forces are interesting. They naturally select product that people want. Perhaps Apple was afraid that they'd loose a lot more than the hardware war if they let go of the hardware. I don't know.

Barring a few details, today a PC and Mac notebook are basically the same machine. Same processor, memory, graphics, etc. Yet Apple isn't iterating the hardware as quickly and efficiently as the PC market continues to.

It'll be interesting to read what will be written in business books about this in twenty years.
I prefer U2410.

If you buy in quantity or through the right channels, pricing should be 300-400, 500-600, and 800-1100 for 24/27/30 Dells.
There are plenty of thin and light laptops other than the Macbook Air.

http://www.engadget.com/tag/ultrabook/
You also almost assuredly get battery life that
is worse to a comparable windows 7 installation
with Lenovo customizations.

Why is this though? This has been the case for a while, but I'm unclear as to what optimization happens on Windows/OSX that doesn't happen on Linux. It's usually attributed to the Windows/OSX manufacturer drivers, but what are those drivers doing differently? Anyone have even a general idea?
According to David Pogue Apple will have a new Mac Pro, possibly in 2013: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-explanation-of-...
No, it is indeed $3 to transmit a file. They even call it a "delivery fee". Consider that the percentage cut they take should cover all of the above.

I can get a physical pizza delivered for less than Amazon charges to send me an electronic file. That's just messed up.

Hell, I can get physical goods delivered, from Amazon, with 2 day shipping, for less than they charge to send an electronic file! And how much do you want to bet that the infrastructure involved in sending me physical goods is a lot more expensive and finicky than the infrastructure required to blast a file out over 3G?
Of course when it comes to busting terrorists on Facebook, it's all "then don't share it on the Internet"
I just watched a documenry tonight that partially explains this: contains fairly obvious stuff that intellectually we know is true, but, the last 15 minutes suggest a few things that sheepal (that is, ordinary sheep/people) can do to improve our situation like not buying from misbehaving corporations. Yeah, maybe. One thing that is really interesting in the first part of the movie is how psychology was used to control consumers. Buy, baby buy, because it will make you FEEL better! Another main message of the movie, that war = profit for corporations is obvious, but worth thinking about. They also cover the fact that the corporate controlled news media is not to be trusted.

So, really obvious stuff, but well presented.

http://www.ethosthemovie.com/

This movie is on Netflix under documentaries.
Anyone know when the iOS 6 SDK will be released to non-paying developers? I'm not enrolled in the developer program, as I have no intention of publishing an app to the app store at the moment, but I'd like to play around with the new APIs.
And get fined all the joys that would go along with:

1) intentionally destroying a police car

or worse

2) killing a police officer (see what happens if you shoot a police dog)
Should we take this as a fairly clear indication that we'll get NFC on the iPhone 5?
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I'm not sure I'm seeing any issue here. OK, so he was good at SEO. The fact is that he has always been very happy to have his comics republished, so long as they link back to the original site. Can't be fairer than that.

Funnyjunk didn't do that. However, he didn't take legal action. He wrote a blog, and exercized his right to free expression. Nothing about the blog was factually incorrect. The links are dead because the images have been taken down.

To be honest, he does come out looking flawless! If someone can point out what he's done wrong, I'm very curious. Certainly the letter he recieved from the lawyer is absurd... Starting from the top:

1. "FunnyJunk, LLC. ("FunnyJunk"), a competitor of TheOatmeal.com in the field of online humor". Where can you go with this? TheOatmeal isn't competing with them.

2. He took an old blog post from last year, then stated that the screenshot was "taken long ago". As is pointed out in the annotated letter, this means nothing.

3. Google cache shows that they had hundreds of images, many of them with the attribution removed.

... more points, but is it necessary?
Moralists and fanatics are principally concerned with issues of ideological purity...often to the point of being willing to sacrifice tremendous parts of society in pursuit of this purity -- even as their own slice of the pie gets smaller and smaller and even when pursuit of the practical would move the world towards their ideal much more effectively.

Every so often an event will happen where an ideological purist's rhetoric is true, and this arms them for years of ideological advocacy and warfare...while day-to-day practicalities are dismissed and pass them by. Sure, one could spend 16 hours a day praying at the alter of a particular path, but then there's no time to eat.

Interestingly, highly intelligent ideologues often (not always) follow an interesting path of massive and early creativity and productivity, while trailing off quickly into years of chasing imaginary rabbits down imaginary holes -- when simply continuing to produce would have done a better job of getting their point across.

RMS is like this. Early on he produced absolutely amazing stuff at an astonishing rate -- pieces of software which are still being actively used and developed decades later. Many developers would give their left arm to have achieved this.

And then it suddenly stops. The creative outpouring and concrete contributions to the material world suddenly end and he focuses his energies almost entirely in ideological purity.

It's akin in some ways to Newton's deeper dive into Alchemy or Savonarola's switch from medical school to religion.

Don't forget, Savonarola, despite his desire to pitch the Western world back into the Dark Ages, also fought corruption and exploitation of the poor -- he was right some of the time.

The recent news of Stallman's laptop's theft makes me even sadder because of his ideological purity, the chances of him finding a replacement, and getting back to just making stuff are even further away.
Most creative pro apps are only available on Windows or OSX. I don't hate Windows7 but I find OSX superior (integration, stability, decent shell etc). If you want OSX, you generally need a Mac.

I'd switch to Linux if the apps were there, but it's not even close. And I'm an edge case, I suspect most creative types would rather not mess with xorg.conf.
Discounting home-made computers, which the big names are not interested in competing with, where you can you source a workstation that's more powerful than the 12-core Mac Pro?

The Dell T7600 with 2x2.2GHz 6-core Xeon chips and only 8GB of memory and a 500GB drive comes out at $4,300. The Mac Pro with 2x2.4GHz 6-core, 12GB and a 1TB drive is only $3,800.

Unless I'm missing something, the Mac Pro is still a better deal, even for Windows.
> But if you want your browser to be nothing more than a
> document rendering engine, no one is forcing you to use
> Firefox. w3m and xxxterm, for example, both fulfill this
> role quite admirably.

No they don't, not even close. Firefox and Chrome are years ahead of them in important features like CSS, fonts, and graphics.
What are you going to do with a Xeon processor, run a server on there?
Hosting for Java Web App?
Any recommendations for hosting services for a java web application?
451 implies an error on the client side, when the client has done nothing wrong. To an extent, neither has the server, so this probably better falls into the 300 category.

451 is OK for propaganda purposes, but will people outside of North America and the UK understand the context?
Yeah, the people who can't get anything done at less than 1920x1200 amuse me. I guess they didn't use laptops at all ten years ago.
I think Apple's "ridiculously large" profit margin is lower than other vendors on their high-end workstations.

Dell charges through the roof for memory. 16GB of 1600MHz ECC memory for only $700 more? Wow, that's thrifty!
I've had 1 & 2 work reliably for a while on laptops under Linux, but this tends to vary from model to model, unfortunately. I've been able to get 3 to work on my work setups under Mac Mini running Ubuntu and a POS Dell desktop running Ubuntu (though the Dell had obscure USB issues related to the motherboard chipset that were apparently worked around w/ the Windows driver, but not in Linux... Basically the hardware was crap so they fixed it in post^Wsoftware). Both were NVidia chipsets, IIRC.
IOS 6 and Facebook deep integration : creepy?
Does any body see any issues with that? Things could be worse from a privacy perspective: a Facebook OS. But the bigger question is is this the right direction for us as a society ? Is this the right direction for capitalism. The argument should be looked from both sides.
Linux distro-fragmentation hinders consumer adoption, no innovation in UX.
Linux distro-fragmentation hinders consumer, other segments adoption, no innovation in UX. Wouldn't you agree?
If we're talking about the man, then you may be right. Few humans are worth constructing an orthodoxy around every aspect of their lives, and RMS ain't one of them.

But as far as ideas are concerned, I think RMS's romanticization of MIT hackers is severable from most of his well-known stances on software freedom. I think ESR's article has more to do with RMS's ideas than with the man himself. If (Microsoft|Apple|Facebook) are evil, they are evil no matter what RMS smoked in his MIT days. If it's counterproductive to treat them as evil, then it's counterproductive even if RMS turns out to be God's only nephew.
Very cool, but wow I wasn't expecting the price to be at almost a grand.
The upgrade path from a Mac Pro is to a MacBook Pro with external monitor, and external Thunderbolt disk array if you need it.
In any batch of Apple products from the pre-Tim Cook days there were always a few solid products and a whole bunch to pad out the channel. They were junk that was simply intended to clutter up shelves and take up space in retail stores to command more presence.

I know people that ran their Quadra into the ground and only gave up on them, reluctantly, when the PowerMac equivalents became embarrassingly faster. Expensive, as was everything in that time, but irreplaceable.
For anyone thinking of trying Mint; they will install customized search engines in your Firefox and Chromium, it is a shit experience, and it is irritating to remove or avoid.

I would suggest you do not use Mint if you plan on doing any internet searching.
I don't think aresant was implying any malfeasance on Matt Iman's part.
What are your arguments against it? As a society I don't think that it affects us. We're simply taking things that people already did on Facebook and making them easier to do. Facebook exposed all of this through their API so there were plenty of apps implementing this anyways. It's just one less layer.

In terms of capitalism, I suppose that remains to be seen...
I guess everyone's sense of humor is different. Personally, I found the "literally" comic confronting, but I was rolling on the floor laughing at the gay-roller image... IMO, the guy is a comic genius :-)
Good reasons but I wonder is the current/new generation 12-core Mac Pro inadequate for this? It could be better but it still seems to serve its purpose.
Apple and Microsoft worked on arbitrary resolution independence for years. It's nearly impossible to make it work right because things look blurry unless you redo everything as vector graphics and even that isn't perfect. [1] (Appropriate hardware wasn't available, so their failure kinda didn't matter.) Then Apple decided to just double everything in iOS, which made things tractable enough. OS X is mostly following the same approach, although there is a compromise mode where the screen is rendered at 2x resolution and then scaled down to fit the LCD.

[1] See http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting
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I don't know that anyone's tried that yet. Boot2Gecko is focusing on making a real phone that people will really be able to buy, so working on a platform that requires "fighting the manufacturer" isn't a priority. But it's open source, so it's always possible that someone could take on what's likely a huge task! Currently B2G works on a couple of models, and requires Android ICS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/B2G_b...
Wow I have no idea who this author is, but jeez get over yourself. An article comparing resolution sizes could have easily been written without coming off as an entitled brat. No one is holding a gun to your head saying that you must upgrade your 2 year old laptop, so stop whining that it's not the pony you were dreaming of.
I like the idea of Boot2Gecko, but it's 100% pointless as a project. We had a shot to have a pure web based OS with webOS, and absent awesome hardware and marketing nobody bought it. Mozilla building their own Firefox version of webOS is not going to make this kind of thing successful.

Great devices are a marriage of hardware and software. Focus too much on one at the peril of the other.

Shipping an OS to basically closed hardware devices - phones is a much different ballgame than shipping a web browser app on a preinstalled operating system and with Android already being both free and popular and open source, I don't know why any hardware maker would use Boot2Gecko.
try heroku, or aws elastic beanstalk for easy deployment.
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Funnyjunk appears to be a comedy site with no sense of humour. Next thing you know someone might start a rolling TV news channel with no knowledge of current affairs, named after some kind of wild dog, and then where would we be? Although, to be fair, that could never happen, as nobody would be stupid enough to watch it.
A touch screen display? Are you proposing everyone get gorilla arm (http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html)?

There's nothing wrong with the Mac Pro but the whiny ones who can't afford it or prefer to scoff at the price rather than recognize the value. Yes, we all want a smaller "Pro" system you can upgrade, but there's no market for it.

The sad truth is Apple sells only "thousands" of Mac Pro systems compared to "millions" of their more mainstream products. That they make them at all is interesting considering the expense that must go into designing them.

It's possible as Apple makes an increasing proportion of their revenue from iOS and are less threatened by the possibility of losing control of a portion of their OS X market that they might allow a few select manufacturers to produce and support a true workstation-class system. For Apple it'd be checks in the mail for licensing fees and an almost imperceptible loss of market share.
My family just got an Apple TV and I'm very impressed at the fit and finish, but I was disappointed at the lack of features. I would love a more open device where I could install whatever I want. For example I would love to mirror my display, have better integration with Android and web browse directly on the box. Any recommendation for good media center software to install on the mintBox that can do this?
> I really like gedit more than Notepad++

gedit is available on Windows too. If you really want to harness the power of Linux, run Vim. You'll see at least an order of magnitude in productiviy improvement.
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Funny, I remember the Mac clones being quite nice machines.
One for normal resolution, the other for Retinal displays, with @2x images

If you're not a perfectionist you could just design the retina version first and use some scripts to generate the non-retina assets.

ability to reduce icon sizes on toolbars, etc for more real estate.

Honestly, I think this is the user's problem. They can run in scaled mode if they want moar.
Their consumer facing division cared little for me or my problems. Evidently I didn't pay enough for support, even though my problems were all well within the first 90 days of purchase.

I've had some of the worst customer service I can imagine from them, both at the policy and individual level.

But it is ABSOLUTELY the case that my T520 has a slightly different configuration than most of the T520s I come across. There is no argument allowed here: this is fact. It's also ABSOLUTELY the case that Lenovo couldn't replace my latpop with a new one because I ordered a very popular processor option that was repeatedly out of stock. Twice now I've been offered replacement downgrades without even so much as an offer of credit. Twice I've refused, and twice I've gotten back a laptop with the same exact problem.

So perhaps I am just not enterprisey enough.
Speaking for myself, I have no more desire to go to funnyjunk than I did before this mess started.
This is going to be great. Should be far easier than Objective-C, Java and whatever Windows Phone 7 uses for simple apps.

I'm still not totally convinced about large code bases being developed in JS but I would say that MOST iOS and Android apps don't need "programming in the large" features. But, I could also see some kind of compile-to-javascript language like CoffeeScript making this easier.

I hope this stays up to date with the now fast moving Gecko for Desktop so it has the latest and greatest HTML/CSS/JS features as they get implemented.

Another concern would be: Where does mozilla stand with hardware manufacturers and cell carriers? I feel that this isn't going to gain much traction if someone has to buy an Android device and then hack it. Windows Phone 7 has proven that even if you have the hardware, you still need Verizon and AT&T (in the U.S) on your side as well.