skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. Pushing pixels is WAY more expensive then executing general code in a mobile app (and usually in desktop apps too). Deserializing a view structure and presenting it to the screen is going to be limited by i/o and gpu drawing. Data crunching just isn't a big thing on mobile devices, aside from game physics or potentially custom video/image processing.
You aren't going to use Rosetta style software on a battery constrained mobile device. There would have to be a huge benefit to switching to make that kind of problem for users. The iPhone is already bashed for having battery issues. What would be the benefit of switching to Intel for Apple?
> "We can't have everyone expecting to consume all their resources in the future, because then we're wasting our capacity to produce resources in the present."

Very true.

That said, there is something inherently noble about saving. Life is unpredictable and retaining your ability to weather some reasonable fraction of bad times on your own is the most base expression of a person's ability to contribute positively to a cooperative society.

If someone can't save to a reasonable degree, they simply can't be trusted to engage society in good faith. To vote responsibly, to participate without causing undue costs on everyone else, etc.

This isn't to say that more savings is equivalent to more nobility. Nor anything like that. But there is a reasonable level of saving that, when the drive isn't present, is of very real social concern and should not be allowed to pass as a neutral behavior.

To clarify: this isn't to say that low net savings at some given point is a fault. Again, life is unpredictable and a bad hand may have been dealt early in the game, or a string of bad hands beyond any reasonable expectation. It's the desire and effort and discipline expended toward (re)building that reasonable level of savings that society should incent and recognize as noble and good.
Perhaps you should have asked them that, instead of us.
Windows 8 On The Retina Display Macbook Pro
Apple has no reason whatsoever to switch to Intel for tablets anyway. Even if Intel's chips would be slightly better for that power consumption level, which they aren't, they're maybe half as good, it wouldn't be worth it for Apple to switch.

Not to mention that now Apple has almost full control over their chip, so why would they give that up? I don't know what Tim Cook will do in the future, but if Steve Jobs was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would've switched to ARM for Macbook Air or perhaps a "next-gen Macbook Air" to a 64 bit ARM chip in 2014-2015.

Look at the new iPad and its ARM chip. It can already support well enough a 2k resolution. Can Intel Atom do that right now? I doubt it. Medfield, their "low-power" Atom that is supposed to compete with ARM, can only support 1024x600 right now.
Having been in both SV and the UK, the difference you mention is one of culture.

In SV you are supposed to be super-enthusiastic and ambitious, the world is your oyster, etc. Any deviation from that will have investors worried that you don't have enough confidence.

In the UK, on the other hand, the approach is more defensive, and encourages you to avoid over-stating your case,in case you are wrong.

I always found Dragons Den to be a bit disappointing in terms of the ambitions of the people pitching. A 1/2 million per year business is no bigger than a cafe in a popular spot.
Yeah, this is the way I see it. Without any further context/history of them being disrespectful, I see no reason to start flipping out over a poor choice of words.
Calling Go's panic/recover system a proper exception mechanism is quite a stretch.
reminds me of this article by pg .. about being "hard to talk to" http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html
Living in the area (Lincoln, NE), you can see that the tech startup scene is blooming. With the cost of living so low, plentiful access to engineering students (UNL), and the rise of investment capital, the opportunity to build a successful startup in this area is growing quite quickly. I was once convinced that I had to move to the valley to be successful, but now I couldn't be more proud of this area, and am determined to build success here.
> And by the way, one last thing. The default option for Opera is to restore your tabs from your last browsing session, which was not the case for Chrome and Firefox last time I checked

Chrome's shortcut for 'reopen recently closed tab' is ctrl-shift-t. If you open a fresh browser window and do that, you get your tabs from the last session.
ICub Learns Words Like A Child
Email down due to "Security Attacks instigated by Matt Inman"
_I begin to wonder what this means for Apple_

There is no doubt in my mind that Apple will jump to Intel mobile chips as soon as Intel can meet Apple's needs.

Number one compelling reason: Samsung is Apple's foundry.
Working non stop for 36 hours while being called a 'resource' and some shmuck with an idea gets 50%? That sounds great! Sign me up.

I have a name for this, and its called exploitation.
Your "wand" feature also adds a terrifically ugly yellow border to remembered inputs which developers have no way to prevent (like you can with WebKit by using outline: 0). I'm all for a constant UI to create a good UX but not when it can make a site look bad.
"Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do."

"I was just following orders" never makes a good excuse for doing something that is patently wrong. It is even less so for an independent lawyer who has tremendous discretion to refuse to take a case.*

*Just to be clear, once a lawyer begins working on a case for a client there are ethical rules that (within limits) require him/her to follow the client's directives and work for the clients best interests. The lawyer also may not be always be free to cease representation once it has begun. But an independent lawyer can generally freely refuse to accept a case.
exec('sudo cat /etc/shadow')
=> RestrictedCodeException System Calls disabled

Also, while File.read('/etc/passwd') works, at least File.read('/etc/shadow') doesn't.
Standards suck
From the site:

"1. Register either as an Entrepreneur (who has an existing idea or business) or someone who can be a Resource (has business, technical, or design skills and wants to help). There is a $20 ticket required after registration – to cover basic expenses and ensure you will be teamed with serious participants."

That sounds reasonable to me. If you're a developer (or designer, or biz dev, or some mixture) and have your own idea, you register as an Entrepreneur. If you DON'T have an idea, but DO have valuable skills, you can sign-up to help out.

How is this so bad?

I can't think of a great alternative. "Employee" doesn't really fit. Nor does "team-member." "Developer" is too specific (since any role could fit here). For those who see this as a travesty, what would you prefer?
I find the phenomenon of internet lynch mobs both fascinating and deeply disturbing.
We are experiencing a similar bloom in Cincinnati, it is quite exciting to watch! It is awesome to see it happen in other places too.
Doesn't appear to be up and running yet:

http://www.reddit.com/r/junk001/

Has recent links to all 4 announced bans.
Unless I'm mistaken, the latest version of Ubuntu is 12.04
I don't have the time or opportunity to watch a 50 minute video right now, but I found a summary of the talk on the presenter's blog [1]. Interesting stuff! He references a paper [2] that discusses a "compelled assistance" attach, where a government can use the law to compel a CA to hand-over a certificate that would certainly be usable for a MITM attack. Bruce Schneier also mentioned this [3].

But this is far from "Businesses (and governments) can legitimately buy root keys that allow MITMing any SSL connection". Businesses can't invoke CALEA (or the UK RIPA[4] law, since we're talking about UK government surveillance) - only governments can do that. And the keys are not really being sold or bought. And I don't see how a government could compel a CA in a different legal jurisdiction anyway.

"any CA can MITM the whole internet"

No. A CA has access to keys that can be used to MITM a connection that is secured by keys issued by them. Thats not the "whole internet".

[1] http://blog.thoughtcrime.org/ssl-and-the-future-of-authentic...
[2] http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf
[3] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/man-in-the-mid...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd...
Read to the end, that's pretty much what I end up doing in the final version. I create the TableRowView in the helper and then listen to the parent views "rendered" event so the row view knows when it's element is in the DOM and it's safe to render itself.
Which apparently people like?
Don't use MySQL, then.

I don't want to sound flippant, but really- the wealth of database choices out there is astounding. And it's already largely known that Postgres is a better database than MySQL in most use cases. So go use it.
Happy Birthday Reg! You're one of the most influential people in my career, even though we've never met. 50 huge thank yous for that!

From a recent blog post of mine: "Raganwald always felt like a programmer, exploring issues that programmers cared about ... Raganwald seemed like a better version of what I could become."
- http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/writers-i-love/
Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials
At least they're not mincing words. This is what sponsored hackathons are all about, after all.
I think when you start reimplementing garbage collection in your application, you are probably going down the wrong path and should think about a better way to do things.
May I suggest a portmanteau of Linear and Arc ... LineArc? The way that the gaps create circles reminded me of electrical arcing. Best of luck to you!
Silicon Prairie is probably one of the emerging startup centers of US. Apart from Dwolla, there are many promising startups in the region which might make it big. I feel, the Midwest work ethics and dignity of labor set them apart. Most of these startups are also well connected to each other and form a tight network.

Though it's smaller compared to SanFran, East Coast or Austin, I would still bet on Silicon Prairie.
Here's our vision, do you think it will be huge?
Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the way that companies buy computing, and our vision is to be the one-stop-shop for computing in the future. The cloud's pay-as-you-go billing model is very different to what most people are used to, and we're developing tools to choose providers and deployment options. And we're just getting started...

So like you said, it's something that's not big now, but could be huge in say 5 or 10 years from now.
> unless Intel was willing to license the spec (Intel would much rather make the chips); as ARM licensing allows them near-full control over their chipset vs being dependent on a third party.

Intel's lack of customization is the real problem. NVidia, Apple, Samsung, TI, and Qualcomm can build amazingly specific chips to the task of mobile, while Intel wants a one size fits all solution. Intel has effectively removed all the chipset makers from the PC world giving us poorer performing PCs. This approach won't work in mobile.
Bitcoin safer than the euro?
I LOVE your earlier game Dropzap. This one looks even more fun. You could call it anything really. Here are a few random ones that come to mind:

Zaptron

CrossZap

ZapX

CrossTalk

ZipZap

ZingZap
I don't really understand why any serious Developer or Entrepreneur for that matter even goes to these type of events.
I can't even imagine how bad driver support would be in Windows or OS X if every single device driver had to be made by the same company selling the OS.

I can. That situation happened with OS/2 back in the early nineties. That's one of the big reasons why you don't hear about OS/2 anymore.
Culinary powerhouse? No. But it is undeniably a powerhouse in delivering food consistently and reliably.
As someone who's been there, it's super interesting how different everybody's interview experience is. I get the sense they tailor their strategy for each company, whether it's advance prep or just going with their gut. YC seems to have a nose to sniff out the most likely place a startup will raise a red flag. (One failure mode for them is if the interviewer guessed wrong.)
STUDY: Has Timeline Been A Boon Or Bust For Brands?
Car Makers Think Apple Overly Optimistic With Siri Eyes Free
The takeaway ...

"New York-based company BitInstant, which specialises in transferring funds into bitcoins, is seeing European trade into bitcoin "skyrocket".

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD
I had a similar experience as the OP, but we are bootstrapping and now ramen profitable since our YC interview rejection two months ago.

I wouldn't be so quick to equate their failure to impress YC with not having a viable business. It's 10 minutes and can go either way really, and certainly many YC companies fail to find a viable business model. Note that you are pitching three different partners, and might not get one that deeply understands the pain point (this was feedback from one startup that did get in but felt they failed to convince two of the other partners)

For us the feedback was that they thought it was unclear we could turn into a massive VC backed company. Rejecting us was supposedly the hardest decision they made all day. I guess we'll never know if that's true or not since we have decided to continue bootstrapping and won't be applying again with this company.
I think you're out of luck, and you're going to have to rename your apple box. There's stuff you could do with DNS but if apple sends apple.com to .apple, then you're out of luck. This isn't exactly, but looks like, a domain name collision.
Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental
I think it's a play on "room for improvement" involving the version number.
> "Space douche-wagons" is now officially in my vocabulary. Thank you.

I think it was supposed to be grouped the other way, i.e.
"What a (bunch of (waste of space) douche-wagons)"

but hey, "space douche-wagons" is a nice phrase too :).
Graphics? What about just grepping over more than one line of code?
That kind of Win-Win is also a Lose-Lose. It's just a glass-half-empty thing.
>No

Yes. Again, pretending otherwise doesn't make it so. Allow me to demonstrate:

Man, you sure sound like a dumbass. Not that you are one or anything.

What is the purpose of that statement? It is only included to call you a dumbass. Just as saying "you sound like you have an axe to grind, but I'm not saying you do" serves no purpose other than to suggest that I do in fact have an axe to grind.

>Whether yes or no, your post still sounded like you did.

You interpret my post that way. My post is a simple statement, which isn't based on newegg specifically, but rather the general concept of "just saying oops isn't good enough, you need to explain how you are solving the problem". Your interpretation is colored by your own biases, just as everyone's is. So while you see me as someone who hates newegg, others may see me as a normal, reasonable guy, and you as an obsessed newegg fanboy, or a shill. Of course, the reality is probably neither of those. Pushing your bias on me serves no purpose other than to dismiss my opinion. You are welcome to dismiss my opinion, but you need not report to me every time you do so.

>The standards you expect Newegg to reach are absolutely insane given their size and the triviality of this issue[1]--and that, given the very widespread amount of goodwill toward the company, that you're absolutely flying off the handle.

The standard is in fact very low, and easy to meet. Explain what happened is not complex or difficult, regardless of company size. I am not familiar with newegg, so why would other people's goodwill make me feel comfortable dealing with them? And again, your bias is painfully loud here. I did not fly off the handle. I calmly answered a question with a very simple and reasonable answer. I would suggest that the many upvotes my post received indicates that a significant number of people do not share your perception.

>Getting the pitchforks and torches out before confirming malice is stupid.

There are no pitchforks or torches, again with the insane bias. I simply answered the question "why is this not good enough?". With the actual reason that I would not purchase something from a company that refused an RMA for an obviously bogus reason, and then just said "oops sorry" when there was a public outcry, but never bothered to explain what happened or how they are preventing it from happening in the future.
But how often does trying-to-be-better-and-failing come along and torpedo good-enough-for-the-job?
I didn't intend to brag, because I'm not a particularly good programmer. I only mean that, once you've taken the "Compilers" and "Operating Systems" classes in college, there's really no mystery left.

You are absolutely correct that it would take me a long time to do any of it. (I'm also bad at estimating how long things take, BTW!)

Then again, for most big polished software I use, I don't use most of its features ever. There may be icebergs, but chances are most of them are in code that I wouldn't write in the first place, if I was only writing for myself.
> Note: In the hours before our presentation/release, Google pushed a new version of reCAPTCHA which fully nerfs our attack.

I take it that "fully nerfs" means this defeat of recaptcha is no longer useful?
Create a Jigsaw Puzzle Using jQuery and PHP
I would hope that at least the mob of individuals who frequent this web site would be a little classier then both Matthew Inman

Matthew Inman's response to this whole sorry affair seems to be primarily that he wants to write comics and not play at being a lawyer, and he'd prefer it if people just let him get on with that and enjoy the results. Given the flagrant copyright violation of the other site involved here, and the nature of the lawyer who is chasing Inman right now, I think he's been remarkably classy.

I suspect a lot of people in his position would instead have lawyered up, gone after the other site for a retirement-level scale of statutory damages, and gone after the other lawyer personally with the intent of ending his career. Frankly, I wouldn't blame them, and I almost wish Inman would do that as a matter of principle. However, I have to admire his focus on doing the work he wants to do and his choice to do something socially useful to make his point instead.
offtopic:

sam(and acme) sounds like an interesting method at first, but when you try it out, its really weird and slow to get stuff done. Its because for me, mouse is really inferior to keyboard to do the majority of the tasks.

This is an except from coders at work:

Seibel: Is there anything you would have done differently about learning to program? Do you have any regrets about the sort of path you took or do you wish you had done anything earlier?

Thompson: Oh, sure, sure. In high school I wish I’d taken typing. I suffer from poor typing yet today, but who knew. I didn’t plan anything or do anything. I have no discipline. I did what I wanted to do next, period, all the
time. If I had some foresight or planning or something, there are things, like typing, I would have done when I had the chance. I would have taken some deeper math because certainly I’ve run across things where I have to get help for math. So yeah, there are little things like that. But if I went back and had to do it over I’m sure that I just wouldn’t have it in me to do anything differently. Basically I planned nothing and I just took the next step. And if I had to do it over again, I’d just have taken the next step again.

It would be interesting to know if Ken Thompson is using sam because he is a slow typist and hence doing stuff the sam way (mouse oriented) boosts his productivity or simply because he likes using sam.
I really enjoy the Ruby Rogues podcast team (assuming you have a similar background due to DHH).
if i may throw out a name for tech startups in madison: silicon dairy.
I suspect you haven't gotten around to it, but did you study the noise at all? According to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_frequency>, 85-255 Hz is the usual range of human speech. You could try a band-pass filter with that pass band, and probably a pretty high roll-off (this will cut off sounds like S and X, but I suspect voice recognition software is often capable of dealing with those, given how often they fail to be represented well in discrete audio).

Audacity can do this, and there's almost certainly automatible tools out there. Worth a shot, anyway.
At midnight on NYE 2008/9 we dialed up the speaking clock, and there actually was an extra beep. It was pretty cool, and we felt a brief moment of existential nausea when we suddenly felt our size in relation to the solar system.

(I'd like to point out that after that we did go to a massive party.)
I see it's time for the weekly HN pitchfork- and torch-fest. "Resource" is a term with a lot of history in this context, it's used by everyone, and everyone knows what it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources

Why are we so hungry for drama that we chomp at the bit every time some little thing like this comes up? You know what they're saying, you just want to ignore it and make it into a fiasco. Move on.
There are plenty of reasons to do graphics on the command line (e.g. batch operations) and anyway that is not at all the main point of the paper, it's just an example.
There are extensions that do the first part:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gedeaafllmnkkgbinf...

Remembering credentials can be done with something like 1Password.
Comcast refuses to hand over user data in illegal downloading case
The point was that skype has no x86_64 version. So if you have a 64 bit install (random aside: I hope you're on an Atom netbook and not running a 32 bit linux on a desktop/laptop) it will pull all the i686 versions of its dependencies.

This probably works now on Ubuntu, which has finally rolled out a multilib implementation (that I haven't kicked the tires on yet).
What's the international symbol for a lawyer?

https://www.google.com/search?q=parasite+icon
Code School open sourced their ruby sandboxing. Might be worth a look. https://github.com/envylabs/RubyCop
>You want 100% certainty it won't happen again, but nothing is ever 100%

No, I didn't say that at all. I want a reasonable assurance. Going "oops, nevermind" after a public outcry doesn't give me reasonable assurance. Saying "one of our support staff made an error, and we have decided to improve our training materials so that our support staff will know what an operating system is in the future" would give me reasonable assurance. And I would be totally fine with that, even though I have no way of knowing they actually did change their training. I would gladly give them the benefit of the doubt. The problem is not that I assume they are bad when they are trying to be good, it is that they are offering me no information at all, so I have to assume it would be risky to deal with them.
Uhh...isn't this just business-speak? The human resource department?

All employees are referred to as "human resources". This isn't new, and it isn't meant as a dig at developers.
Non-authorative suggestion: 1995 movie "Four rooms" and the phrase "room for improvement"
You're right, they go through so many interviews (around 370 in our batch) that they probably develop gut feelings about which startups to pick. But like you said, they might have guessed wrong in our case.
Awesomely bad Chrome "feature". Solution? Just click through all of the prompts
True Full-duplex Connectivity: The Future of Wireless
But it does not look checked, right? One should be checked. Also, clicking it has no (visual) effect (though it will toggle the checked attribute in the DOM). It’s a truly terrible bug, and a strong argument that Opera should not use -webkit- properties like transform until it can actually handle them.

I reported it a couple months ago and have not received any follow-up at all.