skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is the SSD upgrade would have cost something like $500 and at that point it doesn't make sense to differentiate it from the higher-end model which also includes the new processor.
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Agreed. Also look up "sexual harassment at conferences" for a handful of recent examples.
My Motorola RAZR could, in theory, do everything that the iPhone could do. Apps, email, web browser, three way calling, blah blah blah. I couldn't remember how to use any of it, and when I managed, it all sucked dog's balls.

When android boosters realize that compatibility, simplicity, ease of use, and even standardization are actually FEATURES they might get somewhere.

Meanwhile they've got phones from hardware vendors who expect no loyalty from their customers and don't show any loyalty to thei customers, because their customer will buy whatever gadget has the most blinking lights next time around. It's a self selecting group.
Then they are either $BILLION mega corps with a big legal dept or they have no idea about H1B.

Essentially if you aren't Intel/MSFT/IBM you don't stand a chance of getting an H1B application through
A new toll road in NC (USA) has successfully implemented an all bill-by-mail approach...I wonder if/when other existing tolls will catch on. An EZ-Pass-like device offers slightly lower rates for regular commuters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Expressway
If that's the measure we're going by I'd like to point out that many APIs have been backported by the Android Compatibility Library as far back as Android 1.6 (http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html).

Some features are missing from the compatibility library, but have been made up by open source projects such as ActionBar Sherlock (which is great by the way if anyone hasn't tried it out yet).
Off topic, but when talking about evented/continuation based systems, I'm surprised the c# approach with the async/await keywords isn't brought up more often. For those unfamiliar, those rather confusingly named keywords make the program compile down to a continuation passing style, while still letting the source look synchronous. Makes the code _much_ easier to handle.
If you are an IOS user, whether a poweruser or not, you will get the latest upgrade and a range of new features by default.

If you're an IOS user, you're paying the comparable price of the latest nexus phone. If you buy the nexus instead of an iPhone, you WILL get the latest upgrade and range of new features by default. Let's keep a similar comparison please.
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Yes and more than these aren't available on older devices, let me direct you to this post on a different thread for a breakdown:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4096633
Is it possible that the app runs in sandbox?
Or is that already the case?
One thing that a lot of circumvention tool promoters get wrong is the threat model. The threat model isn't "attacker can read your traffic" --- although some of the best known circumvention tools have made cryptographic mistakes that did allow that. The threat model is "tractable attacks that isolate traffic using your tool from bulk Internet traffic".

A torture cell will do just peachy at decrypting the actual packets.
The attack was on a phone call message for 2-factor authentication "Your one time password is XXXXXX. Please use this to login now" not an RSA token.
i'm glad someone said it. i enjoyed the story but wondered how someone could suck that bad at civ after playing it for 10 years.
That's your own fault then. Android offers a variety of hardware configurations, and you opted for a low-end one.

If you're in America, I have even less pity. The $200 price difference between some low-end free-on-contract smartphone and the $200 Galaxy Nexus or HTC One X is near negligible when you consider the price of the voice+data+messaging plan over the course of a 2 year contract.
I'm still a student myself and won't pretend to know which is best, but I can share the resources I've been using.

There are two great interactive courses on Udacity.com that will be helpful if you choose Python. The first course teaches you how to build a basic search engine while learning the Python language. Sergey Brin even makes an appearance. The second course is on how to create a web app using Python taught by a co-founder of Reddit (Steve Huffman). Both are totally free and incredibly high quality.

Codecademy.com will teach you Javascript for free. The Javascript tutorial is really great, but the jQuery tutorial has mixed reviews.

Finally, the de facto place to learn Ruby on Rails is railstutorial.org. The content is freely available as HTML, but the PDFs and screencasts are well worth the money.

Good luck!
Yes.

Civ games have never been known for their stellar AI. The way they keep the AI competitive at higher levels is to brutally cheat by getting free techs and units at the start and a beneficial modifier to their production and research.

Considering how quick the AI needs to run (you don't want "end turn" taking forever) and how complex the game is I can appreciate its simplicity, it is disappointing though.

I have examined the sources for the Civ IV AI and must say that it isn't very pretty (hardly any comments too!). One thing it doesn't seem to do that often though is cheat by examining what other players are doing (such as not building wonders it wont get) which is something at least.

But still.... can anyone point me towards a game where the devs actually spent a significant amount of time (relatively speaking) on the AI? It always seems like such an afterthought. Mods seem to always be a better bet. Although perhaps that's because the most efficient ways to play a game are always developed long after the game is actually released.
Apple cares too much about user experience than to foist this type of inanity on users.
Not everybody with whom you disagree is a puppet.
Show HN: Boston Logan FlightTrak
I always make a lot of airport runs, and wanted an easy way to get updated flight info if I was driving or didn't want to navigate the Logan website on my mobile browser (not the prettiest thing out there).

So I built FlightTrak as a quick project: Text 'Arrival <FLIGHT NUMBER>' or 'Departure <FLIGHT NUMBER>' to 617 209 9002 and you'll get the most updated flight information back.

Pretty basic, but maybe fellow Bostonians will find it useful.
> Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list.

I don't know what a more appropriate method of comparison you're suggesting would be. I can say that I've been using ICS for a few months now and I wouldn't want to use any other mobile OS, is that more what you were trying to get at?
Doesn't the situation the author is describing fall somewhat into the domain of SLAPP lawsuits? Maybe not quite, but there seems to be some overlap there.
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Long time android owner and now Galaxy Nexus owner here:

I... Hate... This... Phone...

And here I could deliver a scathing rant about the camera locking up the phone and refusing to properly focus. Or I could go on about the constant gmail, navigator, and browser crashes, the horrid battery life (even in 3G with the "extended" battery) and yeesh I'll just stop here...

And don't get me started about my Galaxy Tab 10.1 still stuck on 3.2 6 months after the release of ICS.

So why did I buy the Nexus? Because I figured the much-vaunted 2011 google phone would get great support. But if this is the best they can manage, sign me up for a Windows phone. More realistically, I'm going IOS on the next spin. Android is dead to me.
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You complain about Android Fragmentation?
You have to remember that apple makes software to sell hardware. If they didn't restrict some features to the newest hardware fewer people would upgrade. Oh and the experience may not be as nice...
Brave New World definately is a good pair for 1984.

http://www.totalitariers.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Brave...

(yes, the message of that image is debatable, but i found it intresting anyways)
You can imagine the same segmentation, but you'd be wrong about the end result. 4/5 of iPhone users have updated to 5, while less than 1/10 of Android have updated to 4.

As a service provider, we see the device stats in our logs across tens of millions of users, and the numbers line up with Apple's slide: over 80% of iOS devices are updated to iOS 5, and under 7% of Android devices are on Android 4.

And really, it's a lot worse than that, with variations in the 2.x releases, even within the 2.3.x releases, affecting whether devices are able to stream video properly or not.
I tend not to skimp on the cost of construction for my caustic, flammable energy storage medium.
You said,

Anyway, I believe in celebrating human sexuality and wish that more people (male and female) could quit being so damn defensive about the fact that men like women and women like men.

The simple fact is professional women don't feel this way. Due to power dynamics, due to gender differences, due to concern over personal safety, due to a general feeling of alienation because of being minority, and due to probably 100 other reasons I'm not insightful enough to cite, professional women as a general rule do not want to celebrate sexuality in the workplace.

So my reply to you is get over it already. Every time one of these threads comes up, some geek has to make the rest of us geeks look bad by pointing out, as if it was somehow interesting, that "men like women and women like men". People do all sorts of things that we don't allow in the workplace. Some of them are bad, some of them are totally innocuous, and that ambiguity is why we came up with the word "INAPPROPRIATE".
But there are a 100 ways around it. In fees, expenses, supplying you housing and a car as part of the deal, or simply not paying you what it says on the W4.

You don't like it? You're fired - now you have 12hours to get out and to the airport before we call the INS
I am emacs user. The problem isn't patience with vim. The problem really is deciphering the `h,j,k,l,esc,d,x,p,b,w,i,I...` sequence.

So as long I can't make sense of what random stream of characters mean, any amount of practice to put them into finger memory is going to be a exercise in frustration.
Are you familiar with the milkfsh project? I use it to talk with my brother, but getting anyone else I know to set it up has been impossible.

http://www2.milkfish.org.sipwerk.com/?page_id=2
I think she's arguing that even if 100% of the current employee participants are happy going to a hooters restaurant, posting a photo of it will deter future female hires.

In reality, it won't deter only female hires. I have nothing against going to places like this (or strip clubs: subsidized steak, at least in Oregon) socially, but a fair number of people wouldn't want to go socially, and I absolutely wouldn't want to go in a work context.
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That's a really good explanation, and something which I hadn't considered.
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Have you looked at iOS 5 at all?
I doubt it. Pro buyers want to select a display and it would be silly to build expandability into an iMac form factor.
It's really unfair to call what the 3GS gets "iOS 6." Apple's been doing this for awhile; calling maintenance upgrades mainline upgrades while not actually delivering all the features.

Keep in mind the problem of vendor recalcitrance is much less of an issue for an interested Android user. You can literally reflash your phone to a mod with an app from your phone. You don't even necessarily need to plug it in to anything.
Thunderbolt is the #1 thing. Apple's own $1000 display is not supported by its high end desktop computer, which is just absurd.
I have a Nexus S for exactly this reason, and yet I had to wait well over 6 months to get ICS. It's embarrassing that they can't push out a new OS to their own phones on time.
This is probably as much a function of age inequality as much as gender inequality, to be honest. Get a bunch of 21-25 year old men together for long periods of time, and shenanigans of a crass and sexist and possibly misogynistic nature will ensue.

All men have been there, most men outgrow it.
Glad to hear it. When people ask me about ePub/Mobi, I tell them that both formats are broken and that if I ever produce them it'll only be as a stupid marketing gimmick.

What we really need is a format that works across different devices. If only there were a portable document format that solved this problem...
"when" they catch up? I think you surely mean "in the unlikely event that they ever catch up or even provide/allow any update at all"

If android is so "open" why do you have to pick a single device from a single manufacturer (even apple offers more options than the nexus lineup) if you want android that's really android and not raped by the handset manufacturer or the network operator?
I have played very little Civ2 (my Civ career began with Civ3), but doesn't FreeCiv have a ruleset that aligns with Civ2 very closely?
and if you down vote, please be generous and explain why you disagree with me.
Is the point of the advert that smaller, commoditized burgers do better overall in the marketplace due to their cheap price, or that there's a market for the smaller segment willing to pay more for better quality? Or both?

I'm also not sure what your point is, since Android is present in both markets.
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I see a lot of folks fleeing the Bay Area to go to Portland.

Compared to SF, the cost of living is far more reasonable for experienced folks that have or want to start a family.

The area is attractive with a lot of natural beauty, mild weather, and lots to do.

SF is only a short plane ride away to meet with VCs and angels, and you're still in the same time zone as them.

The business climate seems better and the government is pretty amiable for new businesses.

The one thing it still lacks is diversity. Seattle and SF are still far better in this regard.
Prepare a demo video ahead of time. If the actual demo fails, show the video in its place.
Well personally, I wouldn't want to go to Hooters with my workmates anyway... it seems like a form of unwanted intimacy. I prefer to think of my workmates as machines that consume dollars and produce work; seeing them leering at women would force me to think of them as people, and that's just getting dangerously close to blending personal and professional relationships.

(I'm exaggerating above, of course, but the thought of going to Hooters or similar with my workmates or especially with my boss fills me with a feeling of ick. Boundaries, people, boundaries.)

But in answer to your question, if some other people at a company I don't work for all want to go to Hooters (or the male-stripper equivalent) together then I'm not gonna sit around and disapprove of that. Or, closer to home, my workmates and I all do eat steak [I assume] so if we go to a steak restaurant we need not worry about the hypothetical vegetarian who might be our next employee.
Agreed, this has little to do with gender.

Other common situations are going to bars for company outings when people don't drink; doing outdoor type outings when people are physically impaired (obese or old or whatever).

Some people are going to have to be left out of certain situations, it's unavoidable, for a variety of reasons.

I probably wouldn't organize a company outing at hooters, but that said it's really not that controversial of a restaurant. I've seen families there the few times I've been there.
Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like we've got some work to do in the 'clarification' department.
And some sports are treated as an investment, see Washington Redskins. Some are both, see Dallas Mavericks.
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It is a problem because it is an explicit sign to women thinking of applying to that company that they would not be welcome in the organization.

Is it really, though? If so, why? Men who enjoy going to Hooters are not necessarily crude, aggressive louts who treat women poorly. And a company that has lunch at Hooters is hardly a place where women are automatically unwelcome, or treated as inferior. In fact, I see very little connection her at all. As a man, I find that appreciating beautiful women and celebrating sexuality are completely orthogonal to my desire to treat women as respected peers and colleagues in the workplace and to treat women with respect based on factors other than their physical appearance.
"Gender inequality is a problem that needs to be avoided"

Why is gender inequality a problem that needs to be avoided? The economy needs tech startups. What difference does it make that the vast majority are started by men? It would be equally good if most tech startups were started by women, but they aren't. Who cares? The "gender inequality is bad" meme seems to be an unquestioned default that most people hold in their heads. The first thing people will always assume is that any uneven statistical distribution of people in a profession will be due to discrimination. But that's usually not the case. Usually, it comes down to a far simpler explanation. There are significant average motivational differences between men and women when it comes to math and the hard sciences that will always ensure a gender imbalance in engineering-related fields. Statistically, it has little to do with ability (except at very elite levels). Far fewer women than men enjoy thinking about and discussing technology. It's a simple fact of the world that's easily observed in the ever day conversations that men and women choose to have. And it will forever ensure a statistical gender imbalance in tech. Most women aren't interested in technology and women (and men) who are in technology, who keep pushing for this fictional perfect male/female balance would do well to show a bit of respect to the majority of the female population that chooses to be interested in other things that females are typically more oriented towards.
> Is it possible that the app runs in sandbox? Or is that already the case?

Why does that matter?
i think by "win" he means break the stalemate. the ai in that game sucked and only stayed competitive by cheating. he should have been able to wipe out the opposing civs after 10 years of playing. especially since the op said he was only playing at prince/king difficulty.
DING DING DING THIS.

I have no problem with guys going to strip clubs or guys going to Hooters or guys hitting on girls at bars. I'm friends with plenty of people who do these things and still think they're great people.

But none of them take it to work, or go out of their way to take work to there.
Thank you. I must say, you summarized our core product very well.
Unwelcome? I've never understood this. The stereotype is that attractive people got hired by being attractive (or maybe for putting out) rather than being competent, but I have trouble believing anyone has never met any coworkers who were both. I've had my share of crushes on sharp people I've worked with; it's my responsibility not to let it be an issue, and so I don't.
I read the plan differently. You could tether your laptop through your smartphone's hotspot feature without paying for the laptop.

You only need to add the device if it is directly connecting to the cell network, like through a laptop's 3G card.
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These threads sure do bring out the best in HN, don't they?
Even if it is, the first sale doctrine would likely apply and so it would not require the permission of the copyright owner.

Whether this is the case or not depends on whether or not the Navy is making copies, or just passing along copies they received from a contractor.
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Incredible visualization. Seriously one of the best I've seen all year.
The point remains - they're adding a bunch of features for free and most users will benefit from them. I'm far more interested in account unification and improvements to the phone app than 3D maps. Your inference that the update is a dud for older devices doesn't ring true.
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There have been a number of stories recently indicating that development of new/updated Apple products has sort of stalled. A few die-hard Apple fans I know have migrated recently to non-Apple products (e.g. from iPhone to Android). Is excitement about Apple beginning to wane? Apple is obviously on a solid footing financially but are "alpha geeks" now are finding their shiniest new toys elsewhere?
Single-Signon is basically universally regarded as the ideal user experience.

Enter your passcode (or otherwise ID yourself to the device), and then everything "just works", with no need to remember or type passwords to every single site. Apple's already perfectly content to consider iPads and iPhones single-user devices, and with OS X, you can have multiple user logins with fast user switching.
There's only one right message in this article: linking your company brand to Hooters might be detrimental to your bottom line< no pun intended > Now that that's out of the way, there is absolutely nothing wrong about doing this. In fact, her complaint exhibits the lack of respect for freedom of choice and expression one can take advantage of, without paying a price in the public court of opinion.

It boils down to this: she was offended, she should avoid the company. Instead she's publicly trying to gang up on them, where it actually might cause them to lose some coin. Live and let live.
>Travel and reward card management
>iOS6: Passbook
>ICS: 3rd party apps

This is missing the point, iOS has been doing this with third party apps for a while, passbook is like news stand or game centre and aims to consolidate lots of confusing implementation into one.
Can you share with us how you made these bindings? Specifically open in browser? using

{ "keys": ["f8"], "command": "openInBrowser" },

Didn't work on my windows machine when I made it.
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I think Hertzfeld mentioned the lack of thunderbolt and USB 3.0. So it's probably not the power that's lacking.
We need to get past this meme of "if the situations were reversed, I'd be OK with it."

Think about it for a second. How many "all female crews" have you actually heard of in Silicon Valley (or tech startups in general)? Any? I'm honestly curious if you can come up with one.

Now let's suppose we've found an example of an all-female startup. They need funding, so they have to apply to VCs. What gender are an overwhelming majority of those VCs? Hint: it starts with an M.

Then let's say they want advice and connections from other entrepreneurs. I just clicked around on CrunchBase for 10 minutes looking at the names of people who run random startups, including Airbnb, Path, Tumblr, Yammer, Airtime and others. I didn't see a single name that sounded female. Maybe I missed one or two.

The problem with your hypothetical all-women crew going to "man hooters" is that not only is it unlikely to happen, it ignores the power imbalance in tech. These guys that went to a Hooters-like place and posted the photos are sending a clear signal that women are not welcome in their company. That's a problem, especially in an area where women are so underrepresented already. Sexism doesn't have to be deliberate or explicit to be real.
Title is wrong: he's not settling the lawsuit... He's raising some money for charity, and raising his middle finger to the lawsuit.