skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I think about this, the more the protestations that Apple had nothing to do with this seem bizarre. A price drop of this magnitude - $120 for the cheapest Win 7 upgrade to $40! - does not occur without competitive pressure. Can you imagine Adobe doing this kind of upgrade price drop on their (essentially competitor-less) creative software? If the iPad were not taking a serious bite out of the consumer PC business, Microsoft would be in no such hurry to spread the platform to existing PC users (who they've been happy to not-so-subtly push to a whole new PC in past years).

PC makers can't be too happy - OS upgrades might not represent much of a buying cycle, even in the consumer sphere. If anything, Windows 8's improved performance across the board might extend the life of old PCs.

I don't say any of this to damn Microsoft, who are doing good work but are against bigger forces. It is fascinating watching the sudden commoditization of a once revered, culturally central product.
So generators at multiple sites all failed in the exact same way, being unable to produce a stable voltage, even though they are all nearly new, have low hours, and are regularly inspected and tested.

It's impossible that it's an amazing coincidence they all failed on the same day. The fact they were all recently certified and tested means that that process doesn't work to ensure they will come on line any more than the process worked at Fukushima nuclear plant.

They don't give the manufacturer or model, and they say that they are going to have them recertified and continue to use them. So that means they are not going to fix the problem, because they don't know why they failed.

You can not fix the problem if you do not know what caused it.
Yup. I see disruptive opportunity, but I hate to see it driven as a reaction to a court judgment. However, many game and business software vendors have been heading this way anyway.
There's one difference between pirating games, and buying used games. Pirated games make perceived value of a game smaller - because you have alternate source to get it for free, AND you get DRM in your game, making it less convenient to use than pirated version.

Possibility to easily sell used game may make perceived value smaller (there's cheaper legal way to get a copy). But it also may make the perceived value bigger - if I can sell game after finishing it - I can get back some of the costs, so I can justify buying more expansive game in the first place. I know kid that routinely buy legal games, play them, and sell them at Polish equivalent of e-bay. If it wasn't possible, he would buy much less games, cause parents only give him so much money for games.

I don't know which way the perceived value will go, I'd guess it's self balancing - the easier and more popular selling used games is, the more perceived value of games will rise, making it possible to rise the prices, but also making used games more popular.

Anyway IMHO the entire information market (games, apps, music, movies, ebooks, etc) is going to be mostly honour-based in the future, at least for things that can't be made into services. The only thing that makes people pay you for your content is their feeling that they owe you something. Make them angry at you, and that feeling disappears. One great way to make your clients angry at you is to use law to enforce "unjust" conditions on them. And I don't see why selling used licences is ethicaly different from selling used books, so it may be hard for publishers to persuade people it's actually Evil.
I'm still not clear on the value of finding the Higgs Boson or why its so exciting -- If I understand correctly, not finding it (or disproving it exists? Is that logically possible?) will force us to rewrite certain aspects of physics. But what effect will finding it have to either theoretical or applied science?
The video was extracted from an amateur VHS recording.

In 1080p, you'll get analog artifacts in HD, I'm not sure it's worth it...

The YouTube link above is fine (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193665). All you see on screen is Jobs' face anyway.

Edit: There's a spanish-dubbed version in 1080p, you can mute it and watch it with the sound track of the other one if you like. But it really doesn't add much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyF5c9sdBk&feature=rela...
You're pointing to an article that was very short and provided no detail.

I had to go through the HN thread to see that it's more complicated than what you make it out to be but I also read a story by John Paczkowski regarding this:

http://allthingsd.com/20120702/italy-accuses-apple-of-misrep...

I think you're trying to paint a picture from a certain perspective that doesn't contain the whole truth. I'm not saying that Apple isn't greedy as everyone else but I do believe your argument has flaws.
Is 9 billion a lot? as an american, It's hard to see that as more than the operational cost of a fighter jet.

Just trying to manage the data from the LHC lead directly to the world wide web. I'm pretty sure there were a bunch of other technologies developed, like the superconducting cable that power those magnets, that will have a big long term payoff.

I mean, sure, it's a lot of money. I think we're getting NASA moon mission level of return on our money. Paying a bunch of smart people solve really hard problems does good things for everyone.
Clojure is very lazy about computation and the loading of values. You can work with sequences of infinite size. Lazy sequences are actually the default.

As to processing data like you would with other really good libraries... if you want to do it like that you can. Clojure gives you easy access to Java.
> Why not go and submit a patch there?

Because WebKit is a rendering engine, not a UI. The Safari UI wrapper is responsible for receiving those touch events and properly notifying the rest of the browser code.
True. Sometimes they're asleep. :)
Yep. This design is partly because of lessons learned from experience: PHP development showed me that mixing things together and code duplication is a bad idea.
Makes sense in light of this recent interview of the CEO - http://hrishimittal.com/post/25990405916/really-interesting-...
The star doesn't inherently say "I have this bug too". It just acts like a bookmark to find the bug later. That correlates with the number of people who want the bug fixed, somewhat, but it doesn't directly indicate how many people have experienced the bug.
Gas turbines are a good choice. Mentioned elsewhere in this thread are concerns about storing gas on site and tremendous cost. Gas is not stored on site, it comes from the gas line, which doesn't stop working when the power goes out. Regarding cost, McDonalds has experimented with running their own gas turbines per restaurant because it can be cheaper than paying for an electric line in some areas. Here is a 13 yr old article about their initial experiments with gas turbines:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FZX/is_6_65/ai_55084...
This was a very good explanation, thank you. One question: the Standard Model describes a finite number of "fundamental" particles/waveforms, correct? What makes them "fundamental"? Presumably they are orthogonal (or at least span a complete vector space), but there must be some restriction on the (otherwise infinite) domain? (e.g. "waveforms with total energy = 1" and "wavelength is kX where k < 4" or some such.)
Hmm... I guess you're right. My bad!
I wrote an explanation of this, the last time this was discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783687.

For those who are confused by the European concept of guaranteed two-year warranty.
Windows 7 surpasses 50 percent global OS market share
Yep. We use Haskell for all systems, online and offline, including the soft-real time stuff that watches the live feeds.
Zed Shaw uses state machines in Mongrel2 to handle connections.

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1278464593.html

Here's the image of the state machine: http://sheddingbikes.com/mongrel2_state.png

Now imagine having something like that (say a prettier version of that chart) for web interactions with your complex web app.
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If only somebody's bounced the idea of Solaris off of him... ;(
Thanks for the correction (and good to know).
Two year wait and 40 hours of developer time spent on a simple bug is worth a bit of swearing.
Why Frappuccino Sales At Starbucks Mean Cheaper Drinks In The Near Future
OS X Skinned Kitten. See - I knew they'd think of a new cat name for the next OS release.
Apple is pretty well known for helping its customers even after the warranty period is up, from everything I've seen. Certainly not always, but enough so that they get more good press for it than most companies.

So, even if they are as evil and plotting as you claim, they seem to be confused on how to be efficient and effective in implementing their evil plan.
The corporate overlords are not screening your bugs, the engineers are. Your mention that your bug got closed as a dup? And that the dup was closed as not being reproducible? It seems likely that either it wasn't really a dup or that the second bug didnt have steps that allowed it to be reproduced. In your case, I would think re submitting your as a new bug, referencing the other two, would probably bring some traction. Openradar is also an option for making your reports more public, and possibly getting more traction.
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FBook cares very much about customer satisfaction. Those are the advertisers.

You're the product. You're inventory.
http://www.adzerk.com/ seems to be the only real upstart in the game, as far as I can tell.
Italy isn't the only place suffering from poor Apple service.

I experienced the worst service of my life from Apple South Africa. My iPad USB cable frayed, and I was first told that it was not under warranty. Then I found it was, from the call centre who asked me to take it in to the nearest iStore. When I took it in, the salesperson refused to help until I made an appoinment. I phoned their local call centre which instructed him to help me, and the he still refused to help. I had to get the manager involved. Three weeks later -after they lost my serial number twice- I finally got a replacement cable.

You can't use the local App Store to buy games (since they haven't bothered to arrange for self-rating like other app stores). This is never mentioned by Apple South Africa in their marketing material.

My theory is that their overseas branches/distributors were set up for an older era, and they can't keep up with Apple's sudden rise.
What the fuck, developer ?

how could you not know that iOS is a closed garden ? Stop being complicit of this dangerous ecosystem. I understand that a lot of people have spent a decade or more in a very good relationship with Apple, swimming in wonderful hardware, nice frameworks and a helpful and friendly community, but it is finished now. This is not the Apple of today anymore.
Very cool. And it makes sense. Living together first gives couples an idea of what it will be like later. Great related article. Thanks!
Blizzard is banning Diablo III players who use Wine and Linux
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Yes! State machines are a natural paradigm for complex UIs.

Event handlers are great as long as they remain independent little globs of code: this button turns that thing off, this click makes that color different, etc. But once they start affecting each other at a distance (e.g., the button starts some action that temporarily changes the meaning of the click), you need a method of controlling the effects systematically or you end up with spaghetti. Pretty much every complex UI I've ever seen is that spaghetti.

MVC is too simplistic to give this. M means "state" and V means "what the user sees" and C means "just make it all work, mkay?", which lets you down right where you need an organizing principle.

I struggled with UI spaghetti for years before finally realizing that state machines are a nice systematic way to manage this complexity. Now it seems kind of obvious that UIs are state machines. They're machines and they have state!
um, how is colour possible?
If you run the numbers on signal strength there is only a tiny number of stars that are close enough that we could receive anything that was not sent directly to us using a stupidly powerful and tightly focused beam. As in if there where a repeater on the closest star that sent out a 1 to 1 copy of every omnidirectional radio signal from earth we would not be able to hear it.
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I've personally seen 3 coredumps of one of the SETI executables, so...
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That makes sense to me, as I read the article it sounded like he was saying that outside iOS he was locked in to Flash in the same way as he is locked in to HTML5 on iOS.

The iOS restriction is very real and enforced, there is nothing forcing people to use Flash for any popular platform.

However if you put it in terms of "if I want to use Flash, I'm forced into Adobe's implementation" then I can see that argument.
Great response! Thanks for that.
Theses are really common questions to ask and we already know the responses.

But are you asking the right questions?

Your hypothesis is that anybody suffiently trained is enough and it is easy to scale by having more people.

This work well for contracting companies that effectivelly sell people and not really care about the software. Their model is totally scalable: they revenue is mostly dependant of the number of people billed. And too much productivy is more a nuisance. They just need not to be worse than other contracting companies. So do the same as everybody else, be sure to have low operationnal costs and you are fine.

But from the software side, this is the opposite. Software don't scale. The bigger the code base, the more it cost to maintain. Too many people working on it and too much turnover and your team start to spend more time in meetings, politics or helping newcomers than getting things done.

As a manager, while this is far more satisfactory to manage bigger teams, your role is to empower your team so it can do more with less. And any tool that can give you an edge is a huge asset. If a better programming language mean more productivity, use it. If a better SCM can help, use it! If faster computer ensure that your devs stay in the zone, buy them.

That the point here. You can do more with a good team of 10 people than with an average team of 50 people (where 10 peoples will be consumed just to manage others).
> It's an open-and-shut case if the power existed to prosecute it.

if that were true, why are their customers not suing them for fraud? seems like they'd win a lot of money pretty easily if it were an open and shut case.
I think big companies most of the time are looking for the business opportunity that the new acquisition can bring and also how well the new acquisition fits on their vision for the company. Usually they prefer if the software written by start-up is already scaled & written in production setting but bigger companies always have resources to help them with these transitional stuff.
Regarding #2, no, it's not a story, it's linkbait and happens every year.
As far as I can tell, that post you're quoting was written by a user totally unaffiliated with Apple. It's a pretty enormous stretch to call this "their stance on requirement of antivirus".
Actually, it's possible to to prove that something doesn't exist. It depends on how well defined it is. For example, you can take the dragon in the garage from Sagan's Demon Haunted World.

If you're not familiar with it, the example is a guy who claims to have a dragon in his garage. When you attempt to look for it, not being able to see it, the guy says 'it's an invisible dragon.' And likewise the story continues, each time, there is a reason provided for why the dragon cannot be found.

The issue here is that it's a very poorly defined dragon.

Let's consider the strongly defined dragon. If I claim that there is an 8ft, red, visible, fire breathing dragon sitting on the ground in my back yard, a simple search will disprove that statement. There is no evidence to be found of that dragon, and it can be safe to say that it doesn't exist.

However, if I then say, 'well, the dragon isn't really visible,' then I've changed what you're looking for, and the search must be conducted with those new parameters.

The case with the higgs is similar. It can be possible to say 'a higgs with these properties does (or does not) exist.' If you say 'well, what if it has these different properties' well, it doesn't invalidate those previous results; it just provides you with something new to do.

The core mistake here is that 'absence of evidence' is not always 'evidence of absence,' but many times it is. In the same way that 'correlation is not causation' but many times it is.
You fortunately now have the option of running Chrome on iOS. I'd like to see the side-by-side comparison for compatibility issues.
Used software cannot be sold in the Banana Republic of the USA.
"Be generous with benefits" seems like a good policy in general, but should be optimized for employee #1 (and the next few).

I wouldn't feel a need to get excellent healthcare for my first few employees if they have existing good insurance on their own (I plan to keep my $100/mo HSA plan indefinitely), but I value a $10k equipment budget and basically unlimited Amazon book ordering more than they cost to provide, I'd value a place to receive packages during the day, including cases of ammo, far more than the cost to provide that. If you are a tiny startup, don't just do cookie cutter benefits, pick benefits your current and prospective employees would particularly value.

I'm not sure about spending a marginal dollar on benefits vs salary.
Care to explain?

You don't have a clear strategy for "pro accounts" on your site, you don't have a pricing page--there's no indication that there's even anything for sale on your site.
Depressingly this cartoon is more complex than almost all of the BBC science output.

Broadcasters with the BBC's remit need to have science programmes that are far beyond my understanding. Almost everything on the BBC can be followed by a reasonably smart 14 year old.
Change the game design slightly? He claims he wants to walk and jump at the same time, maybe adjust the control scheme to make jumping triggered in a different way.

This bug, in particular is not a an easy thing to work around, I agree and maybe he did try all sorts of things but none of them worked, we don't know.

My point is - in the general case you should not rely on Apple fixing a bug to make your product work correctly.
Ford predicts self-driving, traffic-reducing cars by 2017
While I appreciate Carson's candidness in blogging how they do things, there's a couple of dangerous things in his recommendations.

"I’d recommend waiting until you’re overwhelmed with your work."
This is a bad idea. Do not. Hire when you can afford to pay close attention to what you are doing. Your first hire is crucial to your company culture and direction, so you need to be on the spot here. Packed schedule and cognitive overload do not a good hiring setup make.

Additionally, that recommendation assumes that you are hiring someone to do the stuff that you don't have the time to do. While that's certainly true and helpful in many cases, it shouldn't be the whole truth. I like the maxim "hire people smarter than yourself". Because if you do, maybe you'll see that you weren't packing your schedule with the right things after all.

"Avoid hiring a friend as a first employee."
Right, there is the fact that it potentially changes the dynamic. But not in all cases. If you, say, hire your closest friend since childhood, it's very possible that your friendship will survive anything the work life throws at you, and makes that in turn stronger. On the other hand, hiring a more 'distant' friend has the massive benefit that you not only know the person, but likely know their network, too, and there is no better filter or background check than sharing the same social circle. Carson does mention this in "ask friends for recommendations" of course.

"I’d recommend your first employee should be a designer with strong frontend dev skills."
Um. What if that's exactly what we don't need? Ok, cheap shot, but it's a bit silly to say that everyone needs a designer-dev (then again, Treehouse training does prepare people for that...).

And while he says that you should start with freelancers, he doesn't mention that the first hire can also (in most legislations) start as a contractor or on trial period, which is a safety net for both the employee and the employer.
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What does this mean about copies of Windows shipped with PC's for example? That don't even come with reinstallation discs?

The license prohibits you from transferring those (the manufacturers pay much cheaper than retail)... but this ruling would indicate that you still can.
At least they specified the timezone, and at least they got the timezone correct (PDT, and not PST) [1].

[1] Not only do a lot of communications not specify a timezone at all, but some communications specify a timezone incorrectly. I recently submitted a ticket with Apple dev support, and the automated reply specifies their hours of operation as 7am to 5pm PST. They're probably clueless, and they mean PDT, but if someone takes them at their word, those hours of operation are off by an hour.
Because "everything digital" != "everything else digital". That argument is a very slippery slope, considering it can be applied both beneficially and harmfully (for whatever your definitions of "beneficial" and "harmful" are).
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If someone went looking for you on facebook, chances are they know how to simply click and message you.

If they're going the extra mile to copy and paste your e-mail address, chances are they want you to e-mail you, and not send you something through facebook.

Aside from the simple fact that not everyone has the same notification settings, it's already been shown that facebook has been losing people's e-mails. No notifications, no nothing, just gone.

http://www.rluxemburg.com/2012/06/29/bad-facebook-email-scre...

In no possible way is this better.
The posted article lacks a lot of details. According to a more comprehensive one[1] (german as well):

- The court has ruled that reselling doesn't violate copyright, but nothing prevents a software vendor from forbidding the reselling in it's license. The court didn't force vendors/service providers to permit reselling.

- The court has not demanded that vendors enable the reselling technically.

- The court has limited its ruling to computer programs, and excluded media like ebooks, video, music and the like.

So in effect, this will change: Software vendors will have to change their licenses to prevent reselling.

[1]: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EuGH-Klares-Ja-zum-We...
Neat site, thanks for the link. I got all excited thinking they were going to be videos about crypto though... I guess The RSA is different from RSA.
Probably good in some areas (Canada near a pipeline but with bad roads), and bad in seismic areas like California (gas is likely to get shut off) or California (pge malinvestment likely to cause all gas lines to explode independent of earthquake).
Time to use selenium [1] to automate it and send you emails?

[1] : http://seleniumhq.org/
FYI: Facebook is breaking shared links
If you share a link on Facebook with a query string, Facebook automatically strips the equals sign out of any empty parameters. IE:

'ship_id=19&region_id=&duration=&embark_id=15&debark_id=&depart_start=&depart_end='

Becomes:
'ship_id=19&region_id&duration&embark_id=15&debark_id&depart_start&depart_end'

I think this is effectively altering standard browser behavior.

This also breaks my rails app, which is unfortunate. Looking for a solution on that front, but thought I should make people aware of this asap.