skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terminal. Git. Wifi. App store & re-downloading purchases. Imovie with direct YouTube upload. These all often require screwing around or installing addons in windows. All worm flawlessly out of the box (OK I movie takes 3 or 4 clicks to buy/install) on my mac. These are just the firs few things that came to mind.
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I admittedly have used these services to procure obscure tracks that aren't available via iTunes or other means. That band who did an a cappella cover? No download link on their site or anywhere else? Youtube to mp3.
To start with, the 13" model (the only one available in 2008) isn't even that (ultra)portable; it is sure thin, but in comparison to that FSC Q2010 it is a monster: it is 50% heavier with an additional inch of width and half an inch of depth.

In exchange for being more consistent in its thickness (despite having almost identical thickest points), the FSC Q2010 ends up with a plethora of ports: in addition to an ethernet port (although one that requires an adapter), you had ExpressCard, an SD card slot, an external microphone jack, and two USB ports.

Now, looking back to the Air, one of the interesting design choices they went with in 2008 was to get rid of the ethernet port entirely. This is not as much of a problem with the later Airs, and not for the reason you might think... (it isn't just that WiFi became more plentiful).

Instead, the MacBook Air 2010/2011 came with two USB ports, and the 2012 model adds a thunderbolt port: it is totally fine to use an adapter on a random extra port. Instead, the 2008 MacBook Air had a single USB port; this, combined with the mini display port, was the only extensibility on the device.

In essence, everything you could possibly attach to this device but the monitor had to go in to the one port, so if you wanted 1) cellular or wired internet and 2) an iPod/iPhone, you couldn't do it. I had a friend that was travelling and ended up sitting outside of a hotel in his car trying to steal enough WiFi just to upgrade his phone to the latest firmware.

However, it isn't just these external inconveniences that defined this device; to get an idea of just how spartan the 2008 MacBook Air was, you have to realize that they didn't even manage to get stereo speakers into it: yes, the thing had only one mono speaker. This was fixed in the 2010 versions. ;P

While the RAM configuration on the 2008 MacBook Air trounces your FSC Q2010 (a device that, despite its name, seems to have been sold in 2006?), it still couldn't go past 2GB, which even at the time (the contemporary MacBook Pro took 4GB) limited your options as a developer, or even a browser of many websites. In 2010 they upped it to 4GB maximum.

Looking at the 2006 specifications for this FSC Q2010, it is ludicrous just how much stuff they stuck in it.... I mean, you had a 2G cellular radio... the people I know who travelled with the Air had to carry around a massive USB dongle to accomplish that (as in 2008, phone tethering wasn't yet that common or convenient).

In essence, no: I'd argue that the MacBook Air, in 2008, was a horrible device that was mostly based on some kind of weird design fetish of "how thin can I make a computer housed in a metal case". It was not really attempting to be a usable system: it was at best a proof-of-concept for what, after two years of re-engineering effort, they might be able to make into an awesome machine.

The result at the time was then large (width/depth), underpowered (RAM/CPU), under-featured (mono speakers), and unextensible (a single port); this is even in comparison to computers that had come out years earlier (the 2006 FSC Q2010) that were significantly lighter (2.2lbs vs. 3.0lbs).
It's just twilio for texts plus django and a cronjob. Text messages are the use case I wanted most for myself, so I just did that first. I'll add email/twitter/etc if the simple version gets a good enough response to warrant it
My girlfriend, a CS double-major who wanted to learn JavaScript, tried Codecademy earlier this year. She spent more time trying to guess the exact output the solution required (i.e. the exact string) than actually programming. The app provided no feedback besides "you're wrong". In a few cases, I actually had to debug their minified JavaScript code to determine what output the program expected. Eventually she became really frustrated and quit.

I'm not sour on Codecademy, but it seems to me they need better ways of evaluating completion of an exercise.
People seem confused as to what this is. MightyText lets you text from your computer as if you are texting from your phone.

I've been using this for around 2 months now. It is VERY buggy. Sometimes you'll experience delays in receiving and sometimes you don't even know if your text was sent out. You have to kind of get used to its 'quirks'.

Having said that, it has gotten a lot better and I expect it to continue. Anyone who texts a lot during the day should love setting up MightyText.
Am I the only person that sees a huge 999999px tall red block whenever I visit any change.org site? It's like someone added another <body> tag with ridiculous properties.
Yes, the audio quality of mp3s is much lower than a CD. This format will never catch on.
You realize that's a total straw-man argument, right?
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yes the difference is that it integrates directly with your android phone # and sms.

been using it for a few weeks, really like it.
Consider the invention of the airplane. The Wrights certainly invented it, but if you take a good look at what the other experimenters were doing, it's a pretty good bet that others would have gotten the pieces together in probably another 5 years.

(The Wrights succeeded arguably because they had the first directed research & development program, while the others basically just bumbled about trying things in a seat-of-the-pants manner. None of them, for example, seem to have done any calculation of how much wing area was needed or how much power was required.)
Yeah, when I was at boarding school (high school), we had a LAN in the dorms full of everybody's shiny new Windows 95 desktops. So everybody just had SMB shares, and nobody was careful about what they clicked on.
I put a trojan exe with the icon made to look like a text file in mine. Someone clicked on it, and then I popped up a dialog box that said "Hello! You've got a trojan. Open notepad and let's talk about it"
and he typed into notepad and I watched with the keyboard sniffer and answered back by injecting keypresses. (I couldn't see video of the screen - I think I could take screenshots, though)
I learned a lot about networking that year.
After reading the article, I tend to think the answer is going to be "all of them."
I know YC doesn't discriminate on age, but it really does seem like they are looking for people in their 20s. Their application asks for your HN ID for instance.

This is the second time I've come across the assumption that folk on HN are all in there 20s. Is there a breakdown by age somewhere I'm unaware of? Most people I know in person here are in their thirties or forties :-)
I could imagine a DSP architecture that doesn't intrinsically support indirect jumps. (especially as DSPs frequently use the Harvard memory model) That would make implementing function pointers tricky. I'd probably work around this by making a set of dispatch macros that expand into a giant switch block where each case is a (static) function call. The other option would be self-modifying code, which is annoying to do, to say the least, particularly for Harvard systems.
>The audio is as heavily compressed as the video, not much point in ripping that.

Kids don't care about the quality otherwise they wouldn't be taking this avenue in the first place.

I can't help but think a service like Vevo is playing a big role in this along with the RIAA. Music videos are consistently the most watched videos on YouTube and Vevo has been making a big stink about leaving YouTube.
looks pretty close to DeskSMS. they seem similar.

the problem with the "phone off" thing is -- then you don't get texts to your # at all.

I hope carriers will work with MightyText to do direct integration.
The author does disagree with this. He's saying if you're still sinking your time into the development, you have to subtract it from sales before you can cry "profit!", even if the profit is the result of previously sunk development costs that don't require ongoing involvement. The author doesn't differentiate types of development costs on this point. Most Internet development is invested into future profit: it's not standing in front of your lemonade stand.
if you want to "whatsapp" someone, you both have to have the app installed.
Can you still just copy and paste from your /tmp folder in Ubuntu? I can't do that on Arch, so I just use the FlashGot Firefox addon.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by this response. Most PR responses to public criticism are much much worse.
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Okay, I'm still confused. Is it "iMessage for Androud users" in that it automatically recognizes other MightyText users and sends those messages over the data connection? That point isn't especially clear.

Also, why is there so much emphasis on browser sync? Is the browser install a dependency? Does this work if, say, my browser is closed or my PC is shut down? I would assume that it does, but with the browser sync instructions so heavily emphasized in the install instructions, I'm not sure.
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For example, I do a little video blog where I film a 1 minute video about my startup progress most days[1]

I make the video on socialcam, which sends it to youtube. ifttt then picks up the youtube video once it's uploaded and turns it into a wordpress post, then picks up the wordpress post and tweets about it. It turns a 5-step process (full of annoying upload delays) into a 1-step process with no delays.

I haven't found any consumption use cases for it, but I love it for tying together all the places I create stuff at.

[1] http://bootstrapchallenge.com
We had exactly this at Bloc (formerly Trybloc.com).

There's definitely space for this, but what we've discovered is that it has the same problems as Codecademy-esque services. You can do various things to attempt to keep users engaged, but at the end of the day nobody is paying for anything and therefore has very little invested in the process.

That's not to say it can't work -- perhaps it can. But it's been tried and the variables need to be tweaked just right, and it's a hard combination to find.

I agree, I'd love this too. I learned in a similar manner as what you've described.
Thats an overly useless calculation. The whole point of this exercise is: not all energy is created equal. You can waste many many millions of kWh of Norways free power and then ship the panel to Germany where it will replace energy generated through coal or nuclear. It might not make up for the energy you wasted back in Norway, but that was never the point to begin with.
Is Reading the Internet Convincing Women Not To Study Computer Science?
Which is ridiculous, considering they cherry-picked RandR of all the technologies in the "Linux common infrastructure" to support with their latest driver release. I suppose I should be grateful that my projector can work without opening up NVIDIA Settings and tweaking about, but it certainly flies in the face of this statement and belies their true motivations: they'll implement the bare-minimum Linux-only feature support that will keep their business/edu customers from fleeing to AMD, and that's about it.
The main thing Apple did with the iPad was make it work without any major gotchas. Sure, you could have stuck a desktop CPU and desktop OS in a touchscreen device. Other people tried that. It wasn't appealing.

The iPad gave long battery life, a comfortable form-factor, solid usability and reliability, an impossibly low price point for such high-end hardware, and most importantly it was a tablet above all else. Every app becomes the machine. That's entirely different than carrying a desktop around in an iPad-sized box.

Be careful if you think this is simply dumbing down a desktop, because it shows you're missing the point.
Yeah, it's like a plot line from Catch-22
I think you're overlooking the age of exploration, funded mostly by private interests, and things like the first transatlantic cable.
Microsoft naming things again... They needed to call them Surface and Surface Pro.
The Creativity of GTD
A note about Kerckhoff's Principle
- Double your rate

- get a written contract

- get paid in regular intervals

- document everything
Yeah, email would be cool for a lot of international "customers" as text messaging doesn't work in a bunch of European countries with twilio.
What is some one was to create an open-source version of the app and release the code. There is nothing to stop the parents from acquiring a developers licence and running the app on there hardware. Is there any chance of a project of this nature getting shutdown?

Also what is the patent in dispute?
If it is a UI issue, it would be interesting to come up with an alternate UX/UI interface.
Except what you miss is that Internet sites don't have maitre d's. They only have development costs and hosting/service agreement costs.
where does he say that modern-day detroit is worse than 1945 warsaw? i didn't see anything to suggest that that s/he thought detroit was worse warsaw. is it possible that you are reading to far into the comment?
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"Safari cannot open the page because too many redirects occurred." - what I get when trying to go to cueup.com or cueup.com/app on my phone.
That's a great point.

It's been on my todo list for a while now to remove the JQuery dependency from Backbone UI, since we're now only using it mainly for event handling and positioning.

JQuery was an obvious choice when this project was born over a year ago. I've since formalized my preferred method of DOM generation into the Laconic library, but have yet to do the same for the last bits of JQuery still being used.
Agreed, this a measured, professional response to a childish, unrestrained rant from a community primadonna.
This really makes me want to launch a new "Government Information Awareness"[1] initiative. The tagline should be "Snoop unto them as they snoop unto us." Seriously, if these assholes are gonna spy on us, we should spy back.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awarenes...
Am I the only one that noticed the exact phrasing of the question: "how many persons inside the United States have been spied upon by the NSA?"

Last I checked, not everyone inside the US was a citizen. In fact, I would posit that the VAST majority of people NSA is listening in on, are non-citizens.

I am also curious why everyone is worried about NSA and not the FBI. NSA isn't interested in the US, they care about the rest of the world. This isn't anecdotal information.
The arrangement at 4clojure.com seems to work well for this.
is it dead?
Now, given the content of the article a moment ago, the question becomes: "Should I trust science_robot? Or is this a trojan?"
Very similar to swipely
I don't know about transcodes, but there are often live recordings or rare recordings that I can only find on youtube.
He's right about that.

Nobody, however, is saying that once you've recouped your investment, your hourly bill rate needs to somehow factor into your profitability.
If you grab the source video yourself you can demux the audio using ffmpeg (I've done this for some live performances that I wanted to listen to offline).
Anyone notice that these are no longer being taken down: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album

There are a lot of full albums on you tube now, many with track markers in the description.
* How do you securely log in from an internet cafe?

For this we're going to have to rely on SSL but the server does check that the messages sent by itself and by the browser plugin are not modified in transit and will prevent login if they were.

* What if someone gets your private keys, and gets your password with a keylogger? This looks like "game over."

Well the encryption key is derived using random salts that are in the database so a keylogger alone won't work. Of course it would be trivial to create software to steal the salts as well but if you're computer is infected with malware TrustAuth is no worse than passwords.
Yes—it's called American Sign Language, and it's easier to learn than Spanish.
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Both the 2003 directive [0] and the 2009 directive [1] state that member states may give priority - with notion of exceptions for security. Maybe priority was indeed the factor, but it's not mandated on a European level.

[0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
Not anymore, a Flash upgrade broke that sometime ago.
Scientists create "evolved" music via selection and reproduction
He did say that. I would be surprised to hear that they still do that.
People that can't tell the diference between DVD quality and HD.
People that listen to music using their crappy cellphone speaker.
I think every test suite has tests that only fail right around the start and end of daylight savings time.
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There probably aren't any. But it doesn't take a wild imagination to assume that both Google and Facebook facilitate government requests either with a dedicated staff or through an automated self-service interface or API.
There's few things that are as infuriating as having to write sync code, when you have other things to take care of. Glad this is around now.
How else would you distinguish the ARM model (Metro-only) and the Intel model (contains a full desktop) ?

I seem to recall MacBook and MacBook Pro co-existing for years without a hint of ridicule...
Ah, I always forget my American privilege. You're right of course.
http://www.vattenfall.co.uk/en/kentish-flats.htm

500 tons of materials for 1MW (actual) wind turbine.

That would imply a 1GW reactor should be less than 500,000 metric tons in order to use less materials, and while I can't find figures for the weight of a nuclear reactor, they certainly are not that large!

A proposed thorium reactor: http://www.thorium.tv/en/thorium_reactor/thorium_reactor_1.p...

500 tons, for 100MW - meaning 100 times as much material is used for a wind turbine compared to thorium. Uranium uses larger buildings, but still much less than wind.
This is probably not a great idea due to the difference in capabilities at work. For instance, they can get big corporations to cooperate and offer them indemnity, while you can't. Even more importantly, their ability to lock you up and smack you around with a pipe wrench when they catch you spying greatly exceeds your ability to do the same to them.
The takeaway ...

"From the get-go, and despite Redmond’s very noisy protestations to the contrary, Windows 8 is obviously a touch-first operating system. This kind of made sense; with tablets and smartphones very quickly taking over the world, Microsoft was compelled to quickly bolster its mobile presence. In the process, though, Microsoft was effectively screwing over its installed base of 1 billion non-touch Windows PCs. Surface is the missing link. The strategy is now perfectly clear: If you want to experience Windows 8 properly, you have to buy a Microsoft tablet."
I did the first 5 weeks of Code Year. But it turned out to take too much of my time with less than optimal results. Honestly, reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockfordm, saves a lot of time and gives you a more enlightening experience relating to understanding JavaScript.
"Bloomberg has decided that learning to code is something he ought to promote"

Agree that it's notable. Keep in mind though that Bloomberg has ties to Fred Wilson of USV who invested in codecademy and codecademy is located in NYC (so even w/o the Wilson connection that's an axe to gore/grind whatever). Wilson opened http://afsenyc.org/

http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/mediarelations/NewsandSpeeche...

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-12/tech/30618838...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/the-chorus-for-immigration-r...

Disclosure: I've done some consulting for the above mentioned entity.
Chernobyl: a monumental cock-up by incompetent morons in charge of a badly designed and badly built scrapheap. With so much cocked up, a disaster was surely inevitable.

Fukushima: a series of cock-ups magnified by one of the world's most destructive tsunamis. This nuclear plant should never have been built where it was, and its old technology should have been decommissioned years ago. Yet the death toll due to the accident is still, what, five?

Three Mile Island: injured fewer people than a single typical high speed road accident.
I look at it like this:

* Employees are adults who deserve to be treated with honesty, integrity, and respect. In a word: Trust. If they violate that trust, they're out.

I suspect if we indeed estimated a week's worth of work that ended up being literally a NO-OP, the kind of person I'd work with would realize this and re-assess the situation.

In the least, part of our process (and a "result" that people are tracked against) is "continuous improvement" and part of that would be recognizing we messed up somewhere to have that situation occur. Hiding this wouldn't be meeting that result.

It's an extreme example, agreed, but it illustrates a key point: if "management" can hold you accountable for not meeting your goals then they have to be comfortable when you do meet them. Part of the explicit agreement of ROWE is that this is a fair and equitable relationship. Having management assign you more work because you got it done "faster" goes against that agreement.

We track and iterate professional growth weekly. Thus, the expected results are set and evaluated on a week-by-week basis. People tend to find their unique rhythm within a few weeks and reach steady state.
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This makes me wonder: are there any truly `built-for Linux` video card/chips out there? Aside from ATI/AMD, nVidia and Intel, I can only think of Matrox and S3 -- with S3 being recently bought by HTC, and I have no idea what Matrox does these days, especially after the Parhelia failure.
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I think one of the biggest problems is that no one who is involved in collecting the information is willing or able to answer that question.
RandR is a Xorg extension, it's not a Linux kernel thing. To continue to provide graphics options for their customers that use OS's with recent Xorg installs (they make a FreeBSD driver available too) they had to support RandR.

This is right in line with 'we support our customers/users' not whatever the Linux kernel guys feel like doing today.