skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Apple certainly isn't manufacturing the displays themselves, so that's partially true. However, like on the iPad3 - Apple probably paid the manufacturer (in that case, Samsung) for a large chunk of the NRE to develop that screen, and has in return been granted some period of exclusivity to it. Knowing Samsung, it's probably 12-18 months. On the laptop display, I don't know if we know yet who supplies them, but expect a similar deal.
yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for your feedback
Ah, good to know James!

Of course non-blocking is what people want for stuff like websockets in most situations.
you just came to a profound conclusion that would let you personally grow to a billion-dollar consumer electronics company (if you kept following through on it, and building a community around that one perfect choice - assuming that, like Apple, you're actually qualified to make that choice and develop it.)

then you dismiss it as crazy talk.

of course the easiest engineering choice is not to make choices - let the consumer choose. just give them long, long lists of component choices. worked for dell, right? right??

That doesn't require as many/any fundamental engineering choices to be made.

It also doesn't get you Apple's brand or customers. If you let me put my own laptop together from whatever components I wanted - where is "you" in the equation anyway?
Some context? Who's Patrick?
We are still talking about the same thing right? The picture of a fat woman chasing a bear? There is no possible way that we will ever be on the same page if you think a drawing of a fat woman chasing a bear is anywhere near the same as using a racial slur. You can continue to spout such absurdity all you want but that doesn't make you right. Good day.
I think most of us would be ok if they had a policy of not supporting Linux returns and they were up front about it. But if they don't support Linux returns but claim to potential customers that they do support them then, well, that's problematic.
"For example, maybe their return inspection policy is to run some Windows test software or something and it would have to be rewritten to multi-platform, or all their inspectors would have to spend time learning how to and reinstalling Windows, etc.."

Or just boot from another device?
Gentle noises show you're still listening, if you use them at the right time.

The key being "at the right time." I used to know a guy who had the strangely off-putting habit of doing this with the completely wrong rhythm, giving the impression that he wasn't actually listening – and I don't know, maybe he never really was. It was as if he was counting down a random number of seconds to mutter "mm-hm" in a vacuum.
I'm disappointed by this, but I have a feeling that Google is going to make a big gaming play. My money is on a 'game center' type app for Android at IO and that this will have some sort of tie in with Google+.

On a different note, I think that Google is basically implementing games perfectly on Google+. The reason people hate games on Facebook (and consequently, without thinking, want them gone on Google+) is because Facebook is constantly pestering you to "play Foo Game 2000 with such and such a friend", or "such and such a friend go 10000 points in Foo Game 2000". I've never once seen this on Google+. Gaming on Google+ is completely separate from its other functions (which are in turn just ways to tie Google's multitude of services together).

Google+ does social gaming perfectly, and if there's a tie in with Android gaming I think it could really take off. Imagine games that save your progress between the browser and your phone, and allow you to do all the social things that OpenFeint tries to do (but fails at).
>For example, maybe their return inspection policy is to run some Windows test software or something

Why would anyone run that on the user's OS?? If the point is to test the hardware, wouldn't it make more sense to have a custom USB stick OS that automatically runs the appropriate diagnostics after booting?

What's easier: 1) plug in USB stick, power on machine, move on, or 2) power on machine, wait for OS to load, plug in USB stick, install diagnostic software, start diagnostics, which may or may not reflect actual hardware problems since you don't have a known-good OS under you?

RMAs typically don't troubleshoot software. Even Apple's hardware return people will only offer to wipe your drive and reinstall (you did back up before sending it in, didn't you?)
This is an interesting argument but I'm not sure I completely buy it. For a similar example, the Gizmodo/iPhone 4 fiasco definitely led to increased awareness and pageviews for the site. However subsequently their reputation took a hit and they no longer had a good relationship with Apple which hurt their ability to cover future product releases. I don't have any data to really back this up but I imagine in the long term it reduced readership for the site. Funnyjunk is way less known than Gizmodo (I had never heard of it until this recent story), so maybe the increased traffic will have a positive effect in the long term. However I don't think that's a smart or sustainable way to build an audience for any website.
I also found it useful. I'm just coming back to editors, specifically Vim, after years in IDE-land on Windows, and your simple definitions provided a nice mental model for me to build on.
Although restore disks are great it might be prudent to buy an additional disk drive and store the stock one away until time comes for RMA or otherwise.

This way the condition of the laptop cannot be so easily disputed.
Eavesdropping passwords from smartphones with an antenna
This solution naively assumes a fixed resource need. Growing startups steadily provision additional resources.

They also try new things with large amounts of data. This requires scaling up to additional machines for hours or days at a time, and then scaling back some or most of them when they optimize new ideas and services for production.

When the new services are a hit with clients, traffic increases and the whole cycle starts again.
I'm not so sure. FunnyJunk does need attention to be successful, but more than that, it needs participation. There has been considerable dissent in the FJ community and if that mounts, it could easily kill the necessary critical mass you need to keep a "user submitted content" site alive.
Although it's not the most efficient way to go about getting things done, the internet pitchforks appear to be fairly effective when it comes to business. Next on the agenda is politics.
Poor design & management is bigger issue of AWS outage
Right, websockets servers tend to need NIO otherwise you just wind up with too many threads to manage. However, streaming has uses outside of websockets; for instance, returning a response that's too large to want to hold in memory.
You might want to at least pause before delivering a "you are being a bit negative," though.
Apple people who justify buying expensive technology that can't be repaired are like people who don't mind being spied on because they have nothing to hide. Apple has traded engineering principles for another dollar.
The barrel of Reason is small, but you're forgetting the suitcase-sized ammunition case and the isotope heatsink.

My desktop computer is not hand-sized because I have a slim keyboard and mouse.
Someone has added an idea to the official Dropbox idea board. Vote it up if you feel like it, maybe it'll help.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/9527/save-the-public-folder-
Not to mention it costs a lot to offer configurability, rather than just ordering countless hordes of a few models from the factories...
I didn't gloss over any deeper meaning to the letter--it's not there. It's a very focussed and on-point sermon on remaining faithful. He barely even touches on why men sometimes cheat, other than to prove their manhood. But without addressing the real reasons, the message is just a lot of hot air. The real reason that most people cheat is because they don't feel loved, not because they just need another notch on their belt. They feel like they've already given 110% and their efforts are not appreciated, and the other person doesn't love them for their true selves, only for whatever tangible benefits they provide to the other person.

If I got such a letter from my father, I'd think, Pappa don't preach, throw the letter into the trash, and mark it down to yet another way in which my father didn't bother to get to know me or understand me at all.
My comment was sincere and I stand by it. The article was quite long and I've often seen similar summary comments for such articles here on HN. I think for really in depth articles it helps to have a good overview before commiting time and diving in (something more than an obscure title and the valve.com domain). In this case, I was initially under the impression that it was part of an ARG, a topic I am very interested in.

I should also note that I don't see anything in the guidelines about asking for a summary.
In light of this, are people going to be more likely to buy the extended warranty?
> a very difficult time understanding that the filesystem is a hierarchy.

You are obviously right. But people have been using hierarchies for millennia, e.g. the military ones. Illiterate peasants had no trouble with legion, cohort, centuria, contubernia.

I wonder if the cognitive problem is that the classic file system is an ungraded, unlimited hierarchy - all folders are equal, and you can not find a folders "grade".

Perhaps we would have been better off with an artificial limit of four or six named levels. Instead we're getting the hierarchy removed from general use devices ...

(Leaving aside the "use a hash, not a tree" possibility.)
That's a good point. I hadn't really thought about virtual economies like WoW or Eve as similar to the Fed in that they can essentially print money.
Microsoft is buying a highly successful business that actually produces real revenue and profit. What makes you think they didn't do an due diligence and instead just threw a number like 1.2 billion out? You have no evidence of this, and it makes absolutely no sense.

As a MSFT shareholder I have no problem with them doing this given that Yammer had between 50-100 million in revenue last year and dominates their market.
What you are portraying as negatives (meandering detours into entirely unnecessary, but hilarious, trivia; absurdly unlikely plot scenarios [since when is anything about Snowcrash a likely scenario?]; etc.) are probably what loom as the largest selling points for fans of Stephenson's work from Cryptonomicon onward. I don't think we buy the books for the "plausability" factor.

Also, the books hardly take themselves seriously.
I was with you up until the final point; I loved it, and devoured it in a couple of days on my phone.
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"By gathering all scripts, regardless of where they're hosted, into a single HTTP request, Rocket Loader limits the number of HTTP connections that are needed. This also means that even third party scripts that appear on your page are requested under your site's domain. "

How do you do that?
My bad -- it appears that I saw the 16 in the 1600 MHz bus speed, for the upgraded model, and in glancing too quickly, mistook that for the size (looking again at the web page, still open in another tab).

To follow up on the RAM specifications, would the chip count/size for the 16 GB model be equivalent to two 8 GB DIMM's or to one 16 GB DIMM (as they are currently constructed)? (Asking anyone who knows.) I assume the latter, representing higher per-chip density, would reflect significantly higher cost.

P.S. I'm not a fan of small, light gray text on a white background (the specs listing on the Apple product page).
I've also just moved to the Bay Area from Tennessee (well, after 21 years in Asia in the middle).

Do you have to live near the office? Can't you telecommute some days? Investigate cheaper apartments a little bit farther out -- e.g., Fremont.

Perhaps consider buying a house as well as prices will only go up here (again, a little or a lot farther out and telecommute and commute).
Another issue is that open jobs become protected secrets to the extent that it becomes hard to find positions without a recruiter. It's some type of strange cyclic dependency where companies turn to recruiters because the employees have given up looking for openings on their own--which leads to job opening info residing only with recruiters (and, yes, an about us -> jobs page buried on the corporate web site), which in turn fuels the employees turning to recruiters.

I feel the glut of job boards hurts this as well. Everyone is so eager to start a site to get their own $20 job posting fee that employees are overwhelmed over where to spend their money. Postings are broadly scattered across dozens of sites, and as a result job postings get worse results than recruiters. So, companies turn to recruiters, which helps start the whole cycle up.

Then there's a different form of blacklisting--if you get hired via a recruitment agency, sometimes you can't get access to their exclusive jobs if you go looking again, for fear that the hiring company will fire them. Of course the agency will choose a portfolio of jobs over one hiring fee if the land the right company.

I was shocked to find out that in other industries, the workers pay the recruiters to find them a job.
I don't think Patrick is someone of any importance(no offence). I just think it's someone nice who is willing to give away his laptop. Hopefully only genuine people apply, but this being the internet, I doubt it will happen.
Grandfathered users have been burned many, many times before.
>can't be turned by readily-obtainable screwdrivers

$11 from newegg. Including shipping. Unlikely, however, to be readily available to an inquisitive 5-year-old, who might easily do more damage to some expensive electronics than he meant to, if he could get it open.
Just curious, but are you actually using a conspiracy theory site as evidence of "not hard to find"? My favorite part of the article was perhaps this line:

"The evidence comes from events that revealed the NSA’s true motives from 2005 through 2009."

It sure is a shame that the author forgot to link to such evidence and actually present it; someone should notify the webmaster.
I enjoyed it, though I'd agree that it comes off as a bit of a goofy spy novel in the end. My guess is that Stephenson overcompensated for the perception that his earlier novels had anti-climatic endings.
This isn't how it works. Apple has exclusive deals in place with many of its suppliers. Many of the parts Apple buy are either not available for anyone else, or not available at the same price.

One way Apple has done this is to provide some of the initial capital needed for new plants/technologies. For example, if retooling a plant for new LCD production costs $1 billion, Apple might front 1/2 the money in exchange for 6-18month exclusivity on those panels.

Also, Apple has scale in its favor. They can negotiate better terms and ensure that their quota gets filled first.
Modulating the antenna's attenuation would add depth-control, which may also be interesting.
I think you need to reread the article:

1) The analysis assumes that John ensures the seat is in the up position before #1; if the seat is up he pays cost 0 and if it is down he pays cost C. Furthermore if John performes #1 with the seat down, the question of the final position of the seat is moot compared to the question of "why is John gross?"

2) The article takes the probability p of #1 for John. It notes that if p < 1/2 then Marsha's strategy is actually good, but this is clearly not the case
And the lawyers!
Any Dropbox alternatives? I use Dropbox with an automatic script to upload screenshots / files / you name it, on Mac.

I'll stop using Dropbox when they release this.
In cities like NYC or SF, you need a very high salary to attract true talent.

Worth pointing out that one of the big problems the industry has right now is the assumption that those are the only two places to put a tech company.
Using regular screws would be pointless; there's nothing you can do inside the case.
I'd add also that Javascript proto inheritance is more about composition than type checking, since `instanceof` has its frames problem [1].

As a result, I'm increasingly inclined to do data-structure objects and composable functions, which seems similar to Go's approach.

1 http://perfectionkills.com/instanceof-considered-harmful-or-...
Looks great for client-side connections!

I wonder to what degree this is a solution for office-based servers. How would DNS failover be handled?
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I feel torn about this.

On one hand, I'm excited that this is finally being made into a movie but on the other hand, IMO Snow Crash is one of those books which the movie has to faithfully reproduce much like the Lord of the Rings movies.

Not knowing much about Joe Cornish, I hope he is able to properly capture the outrageous, over the top parts of the story.
I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it!

Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
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- add an IR LED to each band and make it transmit a unique 2 byte MAC address on the IR channel(s)

I would think it would be easier to just put a serial number bar code on the back lining up to a MAC of sorts and scan it when the person arrives correlating the the serial number to their seat. That should give you all the location information you need, at least for the non-standing room only areas of the stadium.
I suppose that is part of the reason though, they want you to buy a new one.
When I interview technical candidates I follow the following process:

1) Ask them to rate their own skills based on the areas of focus found in their resume

2) Completely skip the areas they have self-identified themselves as beginners in

3) Drill them on the areas they self-identified as experts/advanced to validate the claims

4) Spend the bulk of the technical interview discussing the areas they identified themselves as "intermediate" in to identify where they want to go with their career and training as well as to assess their potential for getting there.

After all that I compare their perceived strength, weaknesses, and interests against the needs of the position and make a determination based on that.

The formula I use to assess skills can be expressed as: S = (SA * 5) + (SI * 2) - (FA * 10) - (FI * 4)

SA represents skills validated as advanced,
SI represents skills validated as intermediate,
FA represents skills claimed as advanced, but not proven to be valid,
FA represents skills claimed as intermediate, but not proven to be valid.
Value: added!
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It's helpful when dealing with emotional people, but is not strictly for dealing with emotions. The whole point of parroting is to repeat back to the person, in your own words, what they are saying in order to ensure both parties are on the same page. When frustrated, people want to be understood. Yes, if you merely repeat back to them what they said you're doing it wrong. It needs to be in your own words and you need to reflect bullet points, not everything they say.
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I grew up with three brothers and my mom enforced this rule because she was sick of cleaning the toilet and bathroom and four boys had been in and out all day.
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According to Rotten Tomatoes, both critics and audiences thought Chronicles was simply a better movie. Unless you think the critics were somehow swayed by protestors? Seems unlikely.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/his_dark_materials_the_golde...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chronicles_of_narnia_lion_wi...
CloudFlare's server acts as a proxy. It downloads each resource over HTTP from its original location and caches it, then delivers all the resources to the client over SPDY. The preceding paragraph explains it:

"For SPDY support, CloudFlare acts as a gateway... We handle the multiplexing and begin sending down objects we already have in our cache. The request to the origin server for non-cached objects is sent over standard HTTP/S."

This is similar to the proxy mode in Amazon's Silk browser for Kindle Fire.
Sometimes a good candidate has surprising gaps in their knowledge that can be filled in with some quick remediation. Ethics of lying aside, a sink-or-swim type may be able to succeed in the job in this case.
> Did you miss the downhill skateboarding in an office building? The nuclear-powered cyborg security drone? Hiro deflects a spear with a katana. There's a man with his own nuclear deterrence strategy.

Seriously, all these things are like you asked a 90's teenage what would be "kickin' rad". I loved the book, but in many ways it was just Stephenson saying, "Check out all this cool shit I thought up".
I always imagined Hiro's truck looked something like the Batmobile/Tumbler in Batman Begins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tumbler_in_Toronto.JPG
this guy: https://twitter.com/phuesler
I think Basil Fawlty used that exact excuse once....
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If I have to download and configure a custom application into my toaster in order to choose whether I permit raisin bread, I'm being a toaster systems integrator.

"This isn't a problem, install this third party app to keep your permissions secure! But sorry, it could break at any time because Google don't provide support for it."

This is a desktop computer mentality. Sorry dude, I'm a programmer and a sysadmin, but my phone is a #*$@ing APPLIANCE! I want it to make and receive calls, and maybe play a few rounds of Angry Birds without wondering if Rovio is tweeting my location behind my back.
They used to have pricing information, unfortunately I don't remember what it was now. I do remember that at the time, their minimum order was around 1000 wristbands.
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That's my point. The title dates the story. It's supposed to take place in the near future, but for the title to make sense it will have to take place in the recent past.
I like how it is not best viewed in Internet Explorer!
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Your desktop computer was called a microcomputer in the era when normal computers filled rooms. Reason's a depleted uranium gatling gun which is man-portable... that's small. Hiro is counterattacked by guns of a similar type which are way bigger.[0]

Perhaps I should have specified "small for what it is", though.

[0] Something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS , as I recall.
* Facebook/Reddit/Twitter/HackerNews (sorry)

* delete your twitter/facebook clients from your phone

* delete RSS reader (I still checked Google Reader, but browsed selectively every 4-5 days)
Hey, the cloud is always online and my instances are mine. If I were running my website from my computer, it would be down every time I went into the subway.
Latency would be huge with that setup. 900mhz radio has more than enough range and bandwidth to handle 50,000 - 60,000 devices updating several times a second. I've used LSR [0] modules in the past for prototyping and they have a gateway that would allow you to control the entire thing through ethernet so any computer could run the program and just spit out ethernet packets to send control information.

[0] http://www.lsr.com/