skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They released the next step in their roadmap. The device will be released to US developers in the IO audience who pre-order and they will be able to hack on it at the beginning of 2013.
Sad indeed, the news of a a cat being rescued from a tree or Lindsay Lohan on drugs again is more important, that another 4 or 14 Afghan kids were just killed by NATO is not worthy of prime time, not when we are the ones killing kids.
I can relate to the first part, the part about being a kid in his dad's shop with nothing better to do but examine the small details of things around him. But I didn't wonder at the long journey a screw took to wind up in a hinge. I created imaginary worlds where the crack in a bathroom floor tile was a cliff on an alien planet where all kinds of drama unfolded before me.

Maybe that bodes well for me to have a future telling fictional stories of some sort.:-)
Explain why a free software update for a year-old phone would even be on their radar of choices? The only time carriers have provided free Android updates was when a brand new phone was being released around the time of a major Android update, and competing against other brand new phones that already have the update, putting their product at a disadvantage among comparison shoppers.

What's the incentive to give you a free update a year into your 2-year contract? Nobody else is doing it, so not providing an update isn't going to influence a decision to switch carriers. Providing the update will cost significant money, while doing nothing will cost nothing. Why would creating an update "be more profitable"?
$200 for the Surface? Sure, in Bizarro World.
I suspect his immediate superior told him he was going to be fired, and when this came to the attention of the senior manager (as it would) is when the discussion about passwords, etc, occurred. So he was never actually fired... just kicked-up a fuss, and saved his ass.
DNS Made Easy - ANAME records (CNAME on apex/root solution)
Dear DNS Made Easy client,

Today, we are happy to announce the release of ANAME records, a new feature exclusive to DNS Made Easy. DNS Made Easy is adding more flexibility to enterprise DNS management and at the same time making DNS resolution over 50% faster.

Benefits of ANAME over CNAME records

* ANAME records can be created at the apex (root record) of a domain, whereas CNAME records are forbidden at the apex per DNS RFCs
* ANAME records can exist with other record types, whereas CNAME records must be unique per DNS RFCs
* ANAME records can exist in a round robin configuration, whereas CNAME records may not per DNS RFCs
* ANAME records lead to a much faster result for resolving DNS servers by cutting out additional lookups inherent with the use of CNAME records

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One of the things that struck me while they were doing the "fashion demo" was that if they made it symmetric (even with just a plastic facade on the other side), it'd be a lot more pleasing to look at. I'm sure we'll see styles like that.
Did google just replace Cue (Greplin) with Google Now feature?
Keeping His Word: Equality for LGBT Americans
Why does this monopoly exist? Is it related to law? Or is it related to needing a massive infrastructure to support such a business? Why can't a company "start-up" to offer fast competition in a city like Los Angeles?
The moment anything happens during protests, millions of camera phones come out and point at it. It's far more imposing than any glasses.

Yes, but a human-level intelligence anticipating what will happen, monitoring media coverage, and coordinating intel from other sources on the ground could be a very powerful resource.
Here is the link to today's actual demo and not the one from a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

* Looks like the link was made private
I was quoting from memory. So it wasn't the Black Panthers but there was targeted violence going on. Of course if you're going to give in you want to give credit to someone like Martin Luther King so hopefully in future people will imagine that non-violence works and you can be safe to ignore them.

It was certainly wrong of you to try and forward the propaganda machine of claiming the nonviolence on its own is an effective mechanism against dictatorships. None of us want violence, but many of us don't want lies either.
<video> tag _only_ supports h264 in android 2.2, it should work fine. their site's incorrectly detecting your browser or your Android vendor screwed up bigtime... or both. Galaxy S for example has some browser quirks[1].

[1] http://www.broken-links.com/2010/07/08/making-html5-video-wo...
If you can generate credible performances with a speech synth, trust me, Source Filmmaker is the least of your opportunities. A number of people with a lot of money would be interested in talking to you...
So you always carry two extra batteries around? That must be fun. What model phone do you have that you need 3 batteries to get through the day? Wouldn't it be easier just to carry around a charger?
Cmdfs
Spammers and 419 bots probably account for a good chunk of hotmail (and yahoo) usage.
I was just taking issue at your more general claim
about parallel programming.

As for the GIL, it's such a dead horse. Threads are a
very problematic parallel programming model and
parallel threads would bring in an enormous amount of implementation complexity as well, if it even could be pulled off.
I believe this website uses pngquant to perform the optimization. You can get the tool from http://pngquant.org (it's open-source and pretty easy to use as a library too).
Hihi, you are funny. You view of the companies clearly colors your view. It’s not really clear that either company plans or does not plan the obsolescence of their devices.

The end result, however, is that iOS devices become obsolete much more slowly than Android devices. What do I care about the reading of tea leaves as to whether some company plans something or not?
Can't you achieve the same results with ImageMagick? For example, `mogrify -format png8 *.png` converts all png images in the current directory to indexed versions.

Moreover, ImageMagick itself recommends a variety of more advanced lossless and lossy png compression utilites: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#png_non-im

Then I opened the original panda PNG with GIMP, clicked on Image -> Mode -> Indexed -> Optimized palete -> 255 colors, and obtained an even smaller file size.

What's so special about this?
There's the Sonos system: http://www.sonos.com/
I think google just replaced the need for recently launched Cue[1] (Greplin) with Google Now

[1]https://www.cueup.com/
>What's your ASN number(s)? Carrier neutral facility? How many connectivity providers are present in the data center? Does data center run BGP over these providers? IP Transit providers - Bandwidth Pricing? Overage pricing? Straight $mbps/month? Who manages your network? Ip allotment? Assignment procedure? High density for micro vms(Heroku style)? 200 VMs per host meaning 200IPs per vm. Swip/rwhois updates on assignments? Cross-connects? Cross connect pricing? Charges? Local loop(last mile connectivity) charges? BGP support? Is our traffic on a private/separate v-lan from your other customers?

If you are spending more than, say, two grand a month on co-lo, you probably want different providers for your rack and your bandwidth. Aside from the ease of moving providers to keep costs down, usually the 'house bandwidth' is often 10x market rate. I just got a quote the other day (I only need a little bandwidth, 100Mbps at this new place) and they wanted like $10/Mbps for single homed cogent. $0.50-$1.00/meg is market for single homed Cogent.)

Most of those are reasonable questions, though most salespeople won't know how to answer them. (and many of them, like 'local loop' charges will only make sense to telco guys. In data centers, we call them 'cross connect fees' and they are still important, but much less of a big deal than local loop charges when you are getting a telco line from someone off site)

Note, all of those questions should be asked of the bandwidth provider, not the rack provider. except the cross connect fee - this is what the datacenter/rack provider charges for a connection between you and a transit provider in the building. Sometimes it's one time, but it's usually monthly, and scales directly with how nice the data centre thinks it is. It's $50 one time for copper at he.net, but can be like $300/month+ at a coresite location for fiber.

Note, every bandwidth provider in the building is going to have different answers to all those questions, and even within one provider, the answers will be different based on what class of customer you are or how much you can pay.
Met a VC recently who snarked that another fund invests in competitors because they can't remember what's in their portfolio.
I read all that. If false is zero and true is anything else, its incorrect behavior to assume anything about the value - a test for zero or non-zero is the only legitimate test. I may have passed in 55 as a value for 'true' since any non-zero value is supposed to be true (not false anyway).
With loads and loads of bugs, dragonzkiller's CM9 ROM is incredibly alpha.
Of course it weaker, but tons of two chord songs only have I and IV, it's a sound well burned into our ears. Anyone studying music theory would not be surprised by this. Perhaps I'm meaning something different by classically trained, I just mean trained in theory, not the classical period in history.

I also dislike this idea of breaking the rules, theory is descriptive of music, not prescriptive. There isn't anything you can do that can't be described by theory, that's its purpose. The rules aren't rules, they're just common idioms that people use, using an uncommon idiom is not breaking a rule. Rule is not a proper word to use.
They've made a lot of those kinds of promises -- they don't often deliver, so parent poster is right to feel uneasy about future support.
>and maxes out at 16GB of storage.

I think the key thing here is the "built for Play" moniker. It's also an extension of just how deeply integrated Android has always been with the cloud.

I've been using Android since the G1 first came out. My devices are a portal to my stuff rather than a container, and I don't overly care about storage space as a result. My music streams from Play to my phone in the car. I stream Netflix to my tablet. I haven't manually synced my phone to anything in years, and been through multiple devices and hundred of factory wipes playing with different ROMs in that time. Facebook statuses asking phone for phone numbers after losing a phone mystify me because I can't remember the last time I had to manually sync a device to back up my data.

The relatively slim storage is as much about a different approach to mobile devices as anything, IMO.
No. The dominate strategies of HFT firms are market making and related arbitrage such as latency arbitrage between venues. There is nothing nefarious about having a computer do this in general as it is much more efficient than a human doing this. These strategies are not very complicated and instead require a lot of infrastructure to run. It used to be you needed to buy or rent a floor seat at the exchange to be able to run these types of strategies. Today that money goes to servers, hosting and engineers.

Automated trading, such as statistical arbitrage would be lower frequency, although often still high frequency by most peoples standards. This algorithms often are liquidity takers from HFT.
Leaked iOS 6 beta for Apple TV hints at apps
I fail to see your argument. The original iPad launched two years ago, and will not be getting iOS 6 because it is "too old".
Which makes it okay?
What hasn’t happened? live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware?

I have been doing that with my phone for a few years.

Also, look at the part of the glasses behind the ear, now look at any recent smartphone teardown and see how they compare in size.

I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this demo was really cool, but hardly a technological achievement. You can do the same thing by strapping a phone to your helmet.
That's different from the one they did live, though, which was IMO more impressive.
What myth is supposedly being shattered here, by the way?

Besides the obvious statement that ExtremeTech is a god-awful blog that loves to write incorrect statements and editorialize, I would say there are three main "myths" being "shattered" just from reading Microsoft's paper:

1. Myth: Desktops are more reliable.

2. Myth: Custom systems are more reliable than OEM systems

3. Myth: A stable overclock is stable.

On 1, the article speaks for itself. Laptops clearly show fewer failures in their data. Same with 2. On 3, you have to read between the lines, where they state "Even absent overclocking, faster CPUs become faulty more rapidly than slower CPUs." With that in mind, it's easy to see that even when you find a stable overclock speed, your hardware will crash more often even without taking into effect the crashes caused by finding this stable speed and without necessarily inferring that overclocks themselves cause hardware issues. However, their conclusions show "even small degrees of overclocking significantly degrade[s] machine reliability, and small degrees of underclocking improve[s] reliability over running at rated speed."

Microsoft is just putting this data out there in an academic journal, they make no recommendations or assumptions. They certainly don't make the claim that enthusiast myths are being shattered. That analysis is all on the side of ExtremeTech.
Does it really matter the amount of spam you get if you never see it? I have used GMail exclusively since it came out and I can't remember the last time I saw spam on my inbox. Also I have never had a problem with GMail wrongly classifying a legit email as spam.

I can see the desire to avoid putting more info in Google's servers as a reason to avoid GMail, but in the end you are just trading one mega-corp for another, it's all the same. And Gmail just works too.
Asana Inbox announced
If the US was serious about growing the US economy, they'd make US taxes more attractive than Ireland's.
It can also be political. Companies want to hire cheap foreign labor but are forbidden to if they can find native workers (various EU countries have this) so they'll advertise a job with bad conditions and low pay and then after not being able to fill it for some time they show it as evidence of skill shortage.
It certainly is the most popular service for spam accounts registered to my company.
That seems strange. I've had a gmail account since the first open days of the beta in 2004, and never get spam in my inbox. Their spam filtering works extraordinarily well for me.
The numbers are computed based on the number of people who start a business any given month. I find it slightly unlikely that a lot of 60 year old attorneys or physicians are suddenly starting new practices.

More likely they're just unemployed and working odd jobs.
Android Jelly Bean
Android OS scales items to match the density of the device. Also, you can adjust text size via the accessibility or display settings as of 4.0 (there may be an accessibility option on older device but that is inconsistent).
That’s cool. So in a year we will finally know what this is all about.
New in Android 4.1 Default Browser
Really excited to see what fan-made stuff comes out of this. The replay editor is a child's toy in comparison.
I honestly don't see what makes this worth $300 over an Apple or Roku for $100. Aside from the amp and a couple very small features, it seems to do the same thing. They call it the first "social" media player, but what exactly makes it that? If it's the party/playlist mode, I have that on my first gen AppleTV. If it's the playing from mobile devices, Airplay does that. All in all it doesn't look like a bad product, just priced way out of whack with the competition.
I don't want Google to provide my hardware. They control too many things already.
You can generate the same image format with ImageMagick, Fireworks, pngnq and pngquant (the last one seems to be powering the site).

The difference is in quality of quantization. The poorer the algorithm, the more banding artifacts or dithering noise you'll get.

Usually less optimal quantization also gives worse quality/filesize ratio (since palette entries are "spent" on less noticeable areas of the image).
Thanks. Updated as well.
Google started that design language quite a while ago with Google+ and all the new designs for their services. The big images thing came a long time ago in the Chrome Webstore as well:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Why do people have to immediately associate something with something else even if it's only 5-10% similar?
I only have one problem with this... There is no freakin way they were going an average of 30 mph on that bike ride. No way.
Amps and power supplies are expensive. That feature is probably responsible for $100 of the $300 price. Maybe more. (the relationship between BOM, assembled cost, and retail price isn't always obvious).

I'd rather have no amp for $50-100, or amp+speakers for $300-400 (in a single portable package).

Volume is already going to be variable based on speakers and speaker placement, so having an outboard power amp wouldn't really hurt the user experience.
"I've already taken it on a camping trip to read books"

What a bunch of nerds. Tell me about something exciting you actually did with your new product.
Are you the Halo Machinima guy?
According to the NY Times, it "contains almost all American-made parts" but "Semiconductor chips are more of a challenge. In some cases, the chips are made in the United States and shipped to Asia to be packaged with other electronic components."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...
It's not exactly fan-made, but I'll be evaluating it for our current performance capture projects tomorrow/Friday. VERY excited.
The Xoom is pretty old and should be getting JB.
I would assume the author is using "user" as a way not to repeat "unique visitor" three times -- I mean, this is all in the context of comScore data, so it seems pretty obvious.

Also, I assume you won't be counted, because comScore is probably not counting mail protocol connections, but rather actual website visits. A POP3 connection wouldn't count as a "unique visitor" in my book.

So the article's data is probably fine.
Bootstrapping like a Winemaker
Looks very promising, I will definitely give it a shot! Good job!
Sounds like the "academic edition" of the Rejection Therapy game: http://rejectiontherapy.com

But on a more serious note, Mark reframed his rejections into a positive learning opportunity for many people. Thanks for doing this Mark.
afaik it's made by ASUS so I don't imagine how it would be much different from buying something ASUS branded. Besides if they have control of all of the software already I don't see what difference the hardware would really make.
I think the joke here is actually on CoffeeScript, not Javascript.

And really the joke is on CoffeeScript evangelists, not CoffeeScript.
I still need to watch the video, but sadly I'm in a hotel and my laptop battery is almost empty. Would like to advise anyone to read the book "The Alchemist" - very inspirational stuff and offers some explanation why some people don't get what they want in life.
Agreed. The price is low enough that I pre-ordered one on impulse, just to play around with and possibly use for development.
My argument is against the idea that 18-25 year olds would be buying this for $750 even if they don't have a large TV or a stereo system. It's significantly more expensive than an HDTV plus a discrete stereo. It's also more expensive than using the computer you already have coupled with Windows Media Center, MythTV, or the solution Apple has. Launching one program then using your bluetooth/IR remote control isn't exactly an inelegant solution.

There's a market for this. The problem is, it's made nearly inconsequential by the $750 price tag for the whole kit.
I'm glad I don't live where you do. Seriously. I would hate to be surrounded by that many people who don't know how to look past their nose.
I haven't been to that site in probably 15 years. This is about what I think of: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o1MzQ-TV5SU/SIk8yBmT1ZI/AAAAAAAAEM...

The red logo, a lot of blue over the right half of the screen and I could have sworn that the login was on the left hand side, that's how I remember it.

This is the hotmail that is basically, burned into my memory until my death: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/p/2006/1997-hotmail.jpg
I was thinking of something fairly easy and specific. I happen to be married to a Dentist. When she is working she has her hands full and is already wearing protective eye wear.

A cool use case is to display patient specific display on an unobtrusive heads up display mounted to the glasses rather than turning her head to look back at the monitor to see the patient's chart. I am sure this technology is possible right now but google glasses would presumably dramatically lower the price and availability.

So, this isn't pie in the sky AR but something more specific and approachable in the near term (and great for developer hacking).
Will Linux end up being the primary OS for desktops and servers?
T-Mobile USA CEO joining unnamed rival after abrupt resignation
How LinkedIn Statuses Can Get You Hired
Can we appreciate for a moment that this is a product that is _manufactured in the United States_. I hope this is a step forward in the manufacturing of our consumer electronics, and by doing this, it makes it so doing manufacturing in the United States becomes more of a possibility to more of our companies.

I'll happily shell out an extra $200 to buy a product that is built in any country with halfway decent environmental and labor laws.