skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome for iOS doesn't use V8 or the Chromium fork of WebKit, just UIWebView. [0] Because it's using WebViews, it's about 3x slower than the OS's Safari browser [1], because WebViews in sandboxed apps don't get the "Nitro" JavaScript JIT from iOS 5 onwards (presumably for mark-executable security reasons).

Unless the tab-sharing feature is crucial to more people than I thought, I don't think this app is going to be a runaway hit.

0: https://twitter.com/viviancromwell/status/218402587760795648
1: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/21843446275153920...
I'm excited to use this, but wow, the sign in flow for people using 2-factor authentication is awful.
Other studies have explained/tried to explain how the low-carb diet (i.e., Atkins) work. The basis gist of those studies is that the body burns fat reserves instead of carbs. Burning fat requires more energy than burning carbs, which increases the body's BMR.
A book about woodworking doesn't have to be made of wood, does it?
The movement on their homepage makes me nauseous.
> We should "aim" to reuse rather than recycle.

I don't see why this is a XOR situation. Ideally, we would be reducing production, and what we do produce would be readily reusable AND (eventually, when we have gotten past the useful lifecycle of an object, and every object has one) recyclable.
By the same token, I don't think it is a universal truth that human labor will _always_ be able repurpose itself and/or do so in a way that doesn't involve tremendous human suffering.
I have met Jeff Barr and can vouch for him. He is in fact a flesh and blood person. He's just really dedicated to making you love AWS.
I can testify that the Amazon support people that I have intereacted with are professional, empowered and interested in solving your problems. I thought the bronze support service was a good value.

I'm not an AWS employee, or friend/spouse/servant of one, but I do run some production systems on AWS.
5000 jobs to be slashed, $518 million net loss.
By calling, or emailing?
I thought they were selling for cost price. AU249 for 8Gb and AU299 for 16Gb.
Check out Instagram’s brand new Web view
Well that's a bummer. The UI in the Chrome app is really slick!
I'm very proud of the ingenuity of New Zealands high court. So far the government, police and court systems have all bent over backwards to the Americans.

It's nice to know at least one public service still serves the people.
What makes this especially disgusting is that JPMorgan doesn't fundamentally do anything to earn the vast majority of what it does. Apple earns billions but at least it designs, builds and delivers millions of tangible products that people love and use daily -- beautiful tools. JPMorgan, like many similar banks and Wall Street type entities, is essentially just a financial organism that has inserted itself into the world's money flows, and, for the most part, does not provide any tangible benefit to the rest of the society. If anything, I think it increases risk to society: greater chance of national economic crises, greater chance of wars driven by profiteers, distortions to the political debate and governance, etc.
Looks good. Any plans for mercurial?
Perhaps the wrong choice of language is made then?
For $2 million/day, you can run the third fastest supercomputer in the world
I'm a little skeptical from my initial skim of this.

His attacks on using the DOM to store information make me think he's never know the joy of a clean data-binding setup.
Back in the 50s, not only did the USA fund coups to aid corporate interests, some of the insiders profited from it: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...

So much for a Golden Age of patriotic, selfless, public servants in the "alphabet soup" of federal agencies.
The Problem With Chrome For iOS
Show HN: Play games with people nearby
I made a simple webservice to allow applications to be automatically aware of other users nearby. I made a demo of an HTML5 tankwars game to show it off.

Play it here
www.battlewith.me.uk

Find the source code here
https://github.com/fmstephe/location_server

If anyone would be interested in using this to build something, mobile apps are the best target, give me a shout. I am very keen to see other people building on this.
RIM posts big Q1 loss, to cut 5,000 jobs
Yeah, except without all the bad parts like images that can get corrupted

Sorry, I've been a professional in Smalltalk since 1998, and I've never encountered a corrupted image. The closest thing I've seen to that is de-sync with source code. (Which you don't care much about if you're using SCM, for the same reasons everyone else uses SCM.)

stateful (wtf were they thinking?) web-apps.

Same things others were thinking at the time -- you're just seeing a slice of history. People still rave over the debugging in Seaside like it's magic, though.
Google Glass & Now: Utopia or Dystopia?
Isolated and alone, other people making money off you, and your friends don't talk to you any more? Sounds like prostitution to me.
His non-answer makes the real answer clear; they are not.
It doesn't seem to let you set custom search engines, which is a bit disappointing. More options than Google, Yahoo, and Bing was one of the reasons I'd been hoping for this.

Even without that, the easily accessible incognito mode (Safari's is through the system wide Settings app), request desktop site, and bookmark sync is still worth more to me than Nitro/V8.

On the jailbreak side, Browser Changer doesn't support Chrome yet. Hopefully that will come soon.
Tau is clearer in some domains and pi is better in others.

This argument is addressed explicitly in the section "What is really going on here?":

http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:what_is_really_going_on
Yes. Easily.

Show that this non-sql database will drive profit or lower costs for the business. Done.
Imagine what most people would do if they no longer had to work to survive.

Sit around, watch TV, etc.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dissipative

Specifically: "To indulge in the intemperate pursuit of pleasure."

Contains a more...nihilistic edge than hedonism though.
That seems to happen a lot, kinda like how the Rails framework misapplies the MVC pattern and is really a MVA framework. I just assumed it was some new fad around APIs; I found a conference talk I'll watch later.

One day I'm going to release the OMFGBBQ pattern. I don't know what it does yet.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case. I couldn't find data for xlarge, but here's a dmesg snippet from a small instance:

Memory: 1711020k/1748992k available (2071k kernel code, 28636k reserved, 1080k data, 188k init, 1003528k highmem)

That's pretty close to 1.7 GiB. Here's a large instance:

Memory: 7635512k/7864320k available (3204k kernel code, 388k absent, 228420k reserved, 3714k data, 500k init)

That looks like 7.5 GiB to me, just as Amazon claims.

17.1 GiB is actually quite normal when you consider than Nehalems have 3 memory channels with 3 DIMMs/channel so you get numbers like 18, 36, 72, or 144 and then subtract some Xen overhead.
These are interesting as discussion points, although it's a rather weak argument overall. Among other things there is no discussion of the benefits of incubators, which are not at all insignificant.
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Vim chokes on large files? Never ever has for me on any platform (Linux, OSX and Windows) that I have used it on.
This is based on experience? Please share.
Ouch. That's your new kind of lock-in right there. It's not going to be about software compatibility, it's going to be about the extreme high cost of running on more than one cloud and sharing data between them.
I think what he's saying is that the noun is poorlly chosen. The proper, unambiguous sentence should have been: "some of the donuts were eaten" or "some of the donuts were not eaten."

The "not" is correctly used in either case, except in the edge case of "all" or "none".
> The headline should read Google Chrome Skin

That would be redundant. Long before Google had a browser, the URL bar, buttons, scroll boxes, etc, of a browser (as opposed to the rendering engine) were called chrome.[1]

Developers didn't refer to browser skin, developers referred to browser chrome.

This is — quite literally in the original sense of the term — Google Chrome for the WebKit rendering engine.

1. "chrome: the browser UI around the web page" - https://developer.mozilla.org/Talk:en/Chrome
>People still rave over the debugging in Seaside like it's magic, though.

Typing `C-c p d b` in my Emacs inserts this macro:

import sys; sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__; import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

All the benefits of a Lisp REPL and a Smalltalk debugging environment in a language people actually use. Tab-completion, dumps, breakpoints, testing assumptions/data, running arbitrary code inside a specific environ...the works.

I can use it in my virtualenvs without having to explain to an IDE what a virtualenv, a running test in Nose, a normal script, or a running web server. It's normal code so I can wrap the trace in a condition or whatever else I want.
You mean the dormant one from 2004 which was never finished?
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=241

Or the "Groovy specification" which is almost completely empty?
http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/
Thanks Finnh, that made my day! There's just one of me, and I do all of my own email. I truly enjoy my job, and I do everything that I can to help our customers to succeed.
"Excluding some items, the first-quarter loss was 37 cents a share, missing the 7-cent loss predicted by analysts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Sales fell 43 percent to $2.8 billion, trailing an estimate of $3.05 billion"[1]

Shockingly bad numbers, for a company that was expected to produce bad numbers. Exceeding expectations, but not in the direction you'd want :(

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-28/rim-reports-loss-as...

edit: more numbers from same article:

"RIM said it shipped 7.8 million BlackBerrys and 260,000 PlayBook tablets in its last fiscal quarter, which ended June 2. Analysts had projected 8.8 million smartphones and 280,000 tablets, according to a survey of 10 analysts. A year earlier, RIM shipped 13.2 million BlackBerrys and 500,000 PlayBooks."
If the Federal government lends them large amounts of money at close to zero interest, and then the banks are allowed to turn around and lend it back out in the private sector at rates ranging anywhere from 3-20%+, I'd call that a subsidy. A huge subsidy or handout.
> It also can't use iOS' JIT compiler

Last I heard this wasn't true as of iOS 5 I believe. They didn't initially open the JIT to UIWebView apps but they have by now.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Some people say we should use e for the base of natural logarithms, but that's crazy. The letter e is already used for the charge on an electron, for the eccentricity of an ellipse, and for orthonormal basis vectors. Oh, and it's the identity element in group theory. Exponentials and logarithms show up in all those contexts, so the risk of confusion is too great. Using e also breaks the convention of using lower-case Greek letters for fundamental mathematical constants (such as the circle constant π, the golden ratio φ, the Euler–Mascheroni constant γ, and the Feigenbaum constants α and δ).

I'll keep using β = 0.367879..., thank you very much. Then the base of natural logarithms is 1/β, and 1/β^(iπ) = -1. How beautiful is that? Now, some people say that writing exponential growth as β^(-x) is confusing, but I say, come on, it's only a minus sign!
Eh? The guy you responded to was talking about a web app and an Android app, iOS didn't factor into it at all.
I'm curious what you would replace local disk with. EBS? Now all the root devices in your system are dependent on a functioning network, greatly magnifying the impact of network failures. I am all for I/O optimized instances with relatively little CPU or RAM. I like having my disks local to my instances though.
God, Approximately (Brian Cantwell Smith, 1998, MIT)
Google with its heavy emphasis on tech teams led by rock-star computer science PhDs is not well-equipped culturally to compete on customer service with Amazon, a company built on retail with exponentially more experience dealing directly with paying customers.
I'd order one, but paying that much for a domain is too expensive.
Worst advice ever. I thought "click here" died years ago. Hostile to AT users. Please value humans over google.
The point of the original study was:
1) For weight loss, how many calories you eat (or don't eat) matters more than any other factor.
2) Once the weight loss period has ended, the type of diet (i.e., the balance of calorie types consumed) matters more for maintaining the new weight and overall health.
I'd say databinding is useful for smaller convenience plugins, not for the architecture of larger JavaScript applications. From my quick skim this book is spot on.
Google Chrome is built on top of WebKit, so this is rather Google Chrome for Safari.
From a seller's standpoint, Ebay has one significant issue.

Ebay pushes the use of Paypal really hard, to the point where many sellers won't accept any other form of payment. Ebay convinces sellers that Paypal is a safe, secure form of payment to accept, but they don't support sellers at all.

Basically, if you want free stuff from Ebay, all you have to do is pay through paypal with a credit card and then claim the purchase was fraudulent. 100% of the time, paypal will refund your money because they don't have the clout required to argue with major credit card companies, and they sure as hell aren't going to be stuck with the bill.

This complete lack of support for retailers is slowly killing the site.
And that is why it has neither. At $200, you can't include throwaway features that don't appeal to a majority of your target market. For myself, I don't know why I'd care that my tablet was a phone. I already have a phone; if I want to put the tablet on the internet I tether it to the phone.
Download Google Chrome for iOS
IIRC about a week after it was first announced there could be a $2B trading loss at his bank, Dimon went to the Board of Directors and was granted a $23M compensation package.

There's a saying about pizza and sex. When they're good, they're really really good. But when they're bad -- they're still pretty good!

Banking: when they do well, they do really really well. But when they do bad -- they still do pretty good!
hehe, agree on meteor :) and I also said the same when read on vert.x .
Microsoft's "Data Hub"
What would you call it then!? It's a platform where you share and talk with friends. How is that not communication?

When one sends a email newsletter to 50K people, that is also communication. When one blogs, that is also communication. But these are not replacements for actual "conversations" which you have with one person at a time, or very small groups (2-3 people?) - which is very engaged, where everyone is interested in everyone else and emotionally involved.

Facebook news feed is like a giant scrolling billboard of "announcements" - sure it is communication in the sense our friends are telling us what they were upto - that is pretty much it.

May be I am wrong, but I think GP meant the difference between real conversations and broadcasting announcements.
I think their main point is not to switch to tau but to allow it in answers. I like the attitude.
How quickly giants fall. I see an M&A in their future.
https://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:RIMM

Down 18.07% in afterhours trading as of the time of this comment.
Off the top of my head, I can easily name a pile of manual-labor jobs that won't become subject to automation for a very long time; some of these require training or apprenticeships, but none require formal university-style education, and many pay significantly better than minimum wage:

Plumber, electrician, woodworker, metalworker, mason, numerous forms of construction-related labor, electronics repair, truck driving, towncar/shuttle/cab driving, most of the hospitality industry, yard maintenance / landscaping, restaurant staff, grocers and other brick-and-mortar stores of all sorts, warehouse labor (only some of this can be automated).

I think that list can easily become significantly longer with a bit more thought, but that seems sufficient to make the point. And apart from the handful of crafts on that list that require training or apprenticeship, switching between them does not require significant unproductive time, making them all available as options simultaneously.

Try an experiment: imagine you got in a serious accident (a server rack fell on your head), and when you recovered you found that while you still had the ability to think and act resourcefully, you remembered none of your field-specific education (university or equivalent self-study). Your treatment cost precisely all of your savings and assets, so you can't afford to not work immediately. Now, do you really think you couldn't find a job anywhere? Give it a non-trivial amount of thought, and assume that until you come up with an answer you have at least 40 hours a week to think about it.
It is your opinion that the answer to making a larger JavaScript application is one big bucket of state Object?

Tell me you've got something better than that.
What makes this especially disgusting is that JPMorgan doesn't fundamentally do anything to earn the vast majority of what it does.

Why is this "disgusting"? As long as they don't come to the taxpayers for a bailout it's somebody else's problem, namely JPM shareholders.
I'd imagine custom search engines etc. will come soon. They just want to get it out there for now.
Samsung releases ICS for AT&T Galaxy S2 (SGH-i777)
You still need to use Kies but it works
It's slow, poorly designed and a hassle to use. Aesthetically it is poor too and the submission process is way too complex and time consuming. Think about what you would make if you were going to build an auction website. I bet it'd look totally different to eBay.
Performance. I believe other comments in this thread have described the way that the lower tiers for the two services don't quite match up.
I'd say stay away from trying to sell geo-fencing to businesses.

Location triggering reminders is actually a pretty damn useful thing. I can't remember how many times I can't remember to do something until its too late.

Unfortunately, this is something better built into a mobile device from the get-go, and not an add-on. If it was easy to set up, and did push or text notifications that would be nice. Getting the forgetful type to download and configure it will be the biggest challenge.
Apparently, you missed the point -- which was not a nerd missing match. Is this a defensive reaction to my calling you on the "corrupted image" BS?
Google is looking more and more like Microsoft, launching wave after wave of me-too products and services in what looks like an increasingly desperate effort to diversify its revenue stream. Where is the focus?
Sunglass team is solid with some of the smartest engineers I have ever met. Great job Nitin!
More to the point: the customer list is the intellectual property of WakeMate, and has commercial value to the company.

Using the customer list without reimbursing WakeMate (or some other arrangement, including for example WakeMate contributing the customer list to MiWhatever in exchange for stock) is essentially theft of IP. This is a crime in some states, but generally just means that MiWhatever owes WakeMate a check for licensing (or purchasing) the IP.
The WebKit on iOS is rather different from all other WebKit ports in various ways (e.g. there are various -webkit CSS properties that are only supported by WebKit on iOS and not WebKit anywhere else). And of course there are lots of Chrome features.

So the renders may or may not be the same, depending. And various DOM features that are part of UIWebView won't be the same (e.g. any DOM or HTML feature that Chrome has but Mobile Safari does not will be missing).
Performance, probably. To sandbox it I imagine it would have to run in a separate process, and then you'd have to pass messages back and forth, which might be slow. But who knows.

It may be one of these things they were planning to do later, and then someone pointed out it would possibly be detrimental to what they want the iOS ecosystem to be, so they scrapped plans.
Only JS execution is 3x slower -- everything else (DOM, layout, repaint, parsing) is the same.

Most web pages (and even web applications) are rarely bottlenecked by JS execution speed. (There are a few exceptions to this rule...for example, the JS GameBoy Color emulator probably won't work very well)
There is now little chance of a comeback.
Delaying BB10 until next year, even though it is to get it working well is another delay too far sadly.

How many more staff can they get rid off?

Nortel part two sadly for RIM. Sad, but realy have to make some epic bad managment mistakes for this level of fail and there making them :(.

So sad, but I hear the fat lady is warmed up already.
I think that wouldn't be a meaningful bottleneck on my productivity. But I could be wrong.
I hope that having these sorts of things (decent display size) will help Google jump start the 'its not a phone' re-write for some of their 'mobile' products. A touch based, high resolution, device for accessing Google products. I use gmail and its not fun on the iPad, its fine on the iPhone. The difference is display size and real estate.
The indoor Google Maps I've used in airports does this flawlessly. Is the Microsoft tech different somehow?
a related video link points out that researchers have yet to find a single atom out of place in the lattice http://richannel.org/how-to-make-graphene
Not that safe. Someone could always steal your hard work by doing a copy/paste of your site's CSS and using it for their SaaS tower.
Wow, persistent storage is really cheap!

Google sells 1GB at a fixed cost of $0.10. No monthly cost.
Whereas an Amazon EC2 EBS volume costs $0.10 per GB every month you keep it around.

Google sounds ideal for storing large amount of data that is not used very often.
No, I'm wondering if the promulgators of Smalltalk as a superior debugging environment actually have anything superior to what I just described so that I can steal it for Python.

Sometimes I toss stuff out there in the hopes of being shown something better. It's teaches me new things.

Lets take a moment to think on our poor brethren still tossing print statements all over the place though.