skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The user serviceability argument is tired. The readers of HN are disproportionally more willing and eager to service their own tech than the overall population. The only group this really isn't good for is the third-party repair companies.

Apple has made it clear they want a tight relationship with the customer at every step of the product experience. This is (from Apple's point of view) just strengthening that relationship.
I personally don't find any of their products to be very interesting or inspiring. The ideas were all in the ether already as far as I cared about them.

Of course, Apple managed to realize them, polish them and place them in the hands of consumers and developers and thereby create viable markets based around the ideas (even for competitors), and while that's definitely a feat of engineering and marketing, many people (myself included) simply don't care about that part.

The only part I care about is that it's driving money towards tech such that there are R&D resources for developing new products (at the level of ARM chip designs or battery tech) that might make new kinds of products viable (from an engineering, not consumer marketing standpoint).
Surely you mean integer, not "decimal", right? I'm not an expert, but to my understanding none of the values in the bitcoin protocol are expressed as base-10 fractions.

It's a nit, obviously, but if you're going to ding someone for naive mistakes...
Something's telling me the 'regular' MacBooks won't be around for very much longer.
The Zencoder guide to closed captioning for web, mobile, and connected TV
"Keyboard shortcuts can be changed in lots of editors and OS's."

Yes, but you can't change the editing model as easily, e.g. converting a modeless editor in a modal one just by changing a few shortcuts.

My take is that there are two camps: people who adapt themselves to the tools they use and people who try to adapt their tools to their ways and their ever-changing view of the world. The former want the tool to help them to get things done, the latter want the tool to help them to get things done their own way. The former look at tools as tools, the latter look at tools as extensions of themselves.
Simplesafe - self-hosted password & credential management
As usual, competing psychological forces result in overbalances in either direction.

Over-admiration resulting in a "personality cult" are the result of wanting to be led rather than having to think through difficult problems. It's about wanting to be able to latch on to success so that you can follow the leader's direction and share in their success -- even if it's only loosely by perception of association like when wearing a winning team's jersey.

The other side of the coin where visionaries like Musk and Jobs are harshly criticized as being "cults of personality" seems to stem mostly from insecurity. Personal insecurity seeing that certain individuals are successful and praised for it as well as insecurity that their philosophy of "success is all due to luck" is in jeopardy.
The biggest efficiency gain, according to Musk, occurs with increase in altitude such that there is less drag. Aircrafts at higher altitudes can travel faster and further than at lower altitudes with equivalent force. Modern fuel powered jets cannot achieve these altitudes because they would starve for oxygen.
Why do Microsoft evangelists tout IE9 when IE10 exists?
Homeland Security warns of hackers targeting popular Niagara software
Exactly, the simplicity and clarity, as I recall, combined with page rank of course, where the main draw of Google.

It's evident in comparison, that simplicity pioneered by Google, has been a significant principal in modern web design.

While a lot has improved in the design of Google's image over time, mostly aiming towards simplicity, the essence of Google's design, remains unchanged.
I think it really depends on the service. We've always been upfront with the Burning Man organization about what we're doing and we don't make any kind of profit on the site. Given that it definitely provides value for their attendees, we've been in their good graces so far.
Would any tablet manufacturer?
Why would you pick one up? Why not simply download chrome. Having a cd is just going to be obsolete by the time you get home. Doesn't make any sense. If you're reading hn, you're probably already quite capable of downloading and installing the software.
Tiny 2-Foot Missile Could Be ‘Months’ Away From Drone War
Regarding login forms: "Engineers and product managers hate them because you have to build lots of sucky forms which are never quite are as usuable as they should be and lead to missed deadlines."

Unless you're talking about integrating with enterprise auth system, I see no way a login form delays a project.
Simple Made Variadic
oh my god chrome is aol
Count the cute icons.
It delivers a personalized curated news feed which is informed by complex data analysis, recommendation, semantic-filtering and machine learning algorithms that use your elected interests and social graph as a data source.

It's much more than simple aggregation.

You can probably tell that I really like it; and no sir, I don't work for them (!)
Brainwave-Controlled Kitty Ears
Techniques like this have been used in some high-end sensor applications since (at least) the 1990s. It was an option for increasing discrimination resolution via DSP that could not practically be accomplished via higher resolution sensors due to things like space constraints given the technology of the time. It is probably less useful today due to ongoing miniaturization of imaging sensors.
Interesting. And if we called it a patronizing attitude, we are using the word in its most literal sense.
We have built Discourse ( https://discoursehq.com ) with exactly that vision - that CRM is not a sales tool and good communication platform for sales teams, customers and partners will be much better.
Anyone interested to learn more can see also http://blog.smartupz.com
EDIT: this comment may sound like a plug but I'm really excited to see CRM discussion on HN and had to jump in :)
As I remember it, Digg forced some updates on it's users that they (we) did not like and were very vocal about. Facebook does the same thing, except there were other options for Digg users (reddit), Facebook users have a steep cost of moving to another service - I would actually argue Facebook users have no other options
The server is already slow, so if it stops working I think this coral cache version should still load. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il.nyud.net/~vision/SingleImag...
The 5 Commandments of REST
Making CSS3 triangles and using LESS? Try this
Larry is exactly right. I have never come across a company that believes their CRM is going to help them drive sales or has tried to trick their salesforce into using CRM by billing it as "sales software."

In my experience, a CRM is typically fed leads by a marketing automation system or bulk record loading from offline events. All the reps need to do is sort their list of leads by priority, call on them, and flip the status to "meeting" or "closed/won" when they're done. That's nowhere near data entry slavery, IMO.

With a CRM, we want to ask:
* How full is our funnel?
* Where are our leads coming from?
* What's my projected revenue this quarter?
* Is anything stuck?
* Who isn't working their leads fast enough?

All of these things are hugely valuable and none of them have to do with being a "communication" tool.
I'd be curious to know at what magnification this breaks down, if any. For instance, most of the images have been enlarged by about 3x or 4x. What happens when you blow them up to, say, 20x? It seems like this algorithm does some sort of vectorization -- because look at how crisp the lines are -- which would suggest to me that it scale well. But maybe I'm wrong.
yep agenda is obvious like you said globalist and banksters pro
> If the model is based on generating a secure (in terms of entropy) token that is then stored on the device or in the iOS cloud it's fine.

That's about a likely to happen on your phone as any given website is to have secure password handling, eh?
Sorry, with "new generation" I meant "next generation". There's no way the fullsize laptops are staying around any meaningful time (unless they survive on no-update life support like the Mac Pro)
> It means that there are zillions of implementations of various parsers. That inefficiency costs money.

Most of them (if you are referring to command-line utilities) are open-source. I see this variety of implementations as a good thing - evolution relies on diversity and the openness makes it possible for software to "reproduce sexually", making evolution easier.
I like reddit, almost completely because I've subscribed to several small subreddits that have a good community, high quality content, et al.

But there's a tricky problem. Subreddits like /r/programming dominate, while more focused subreddits like /r/ruby (or whatever) languish. If I have a ruby link and I care at all about karma, I'm going to post it in /r/programming.
My dear friend, that's the definition of compromise. Lighter/smaller vs. being very powerful. I carry my 15" MacBook Pro + iPad 2 in my bag and the next time would definitely go with the lighter product.

I'm not saying I like it. I would probably buy a Retina MacBook Pro if it wasn't "crippled" (for me), now I just use my 2009 MacBook Pro a year longer, hoping for a better rMBP next year. It's crippled for me, but the retina MacBook Pro does more things than anything 95% of the world could hope to do in 3 years (it's a beast).
We're using Octopress (http://octopress.org/)
Keep in mind that the size pant you wear is not a real measure of your waistline in inches. Pant sizes have changed over time just like women's dress sizes.

Use a piece of string and a ruler.
It's just a PR trick, telling investors he's taking things seriously and learning some business 101 in a restaurant. Probably the restaurant doesn't even exist.
It's not even really possible to watch them this year without shelling out $100/mo for cable TV. So, hey, par for the course.
Parallelizing Delta Debugging
Really creative idea and +1 for Backbone.js! It seems like your Leaderboard views linger when changing to another view. Otherwise, really polished, good luck!
Fixed-point DECIMAL representation in the database is just as good as storing Bitcoin values as integers. Baked into the field definition is the amount of precision. And Python and other languages have features to work with fixed-point numbers. This approach relieves the mental overhead and complexity of converting to integers (which might overflow a 32-bit int) and back all the time.
Apple rejoins EPEAT green registry
Your loss. It's a very interesting article.
As an ex-Digger, I can tell you that it was Digg that killed Digg for me. At one point in time, Digg was cool. Granted, it was still mostly a rehash of news from Reddit, 4Chan and other sites, but the audience base was large enough to provide original content as well, and the UI was considerably better than any of the other sites.

What killed it (for me anyway) was that Digg suddenly allowed advertisers to start posting away. Ads popped up everywhere, and every other post from directly from Mashable. Digg was no longer cool, and mostly, it was Mashable's alternative site. :)

I switched to Reddit. Reddit didn't like all the Digg users migrating over initially, but attitudes have cooled over time. I can't really see a move that Digg could make at this point that would entice me back.
I know there is a temptation to blame bitcoin itself here, but wow... this is just some amateurish security on the part of these bitcoin sites. If the big banks were doing this, it would be cataclysmic disaster. Instead, the big banks have found other ways to drive themselves (and your money) into the ditch, and it dwarfs anything that bitcoin sites can manage to lose.
What do you mean by easily? Recycling is a very industrial operation; it's more than just the neat little recycling containers you see in the suburbs. If iFixit shows you how to do it, you can be guaranteed that professional recyclers can do it. Especially if it's a material of value: they meticulously disassemble dishwashers all the time for the copper contained within.

tldr; recycling != recycling bin
On the other hand, for mainland EU reader, it has a very liberal ("british") bias :)

So I guess the truth is in the middle.
You pointedly didn't respond to the post:

>> I have a first generation iPad and it does more things than the first day it was purchased.

That's certainly true of mine, crashing 3rd-party apps notwithstanding.
Do you think they remove their brain and insert it into a male chassis before firing up Eclipse?
Nice resurrection of Forum2000! Props.

http://randomfoo.net/junk/200402/xalton.forum2000.org/matrix...

http://slashdot.org/story/00/08/13/0213225/end-of-an-era-for...
A demographicly uniform team can communicate more effectively with each other due to having a larger shared vocabulary of common experiences.

Aren't you arguing against OSS here, essentially? Is OSS not the perfect example of communication across cultural and demographic differences? Should Torvalds just shut out everyone under 40 in the name of efficiency?

It reminds me of my manager going on about how our unit test coverage is only 60%.

Splitting your time between coding and test coverage is an extremely poor analogy to inclusivity in software. For one, your time is a resource, software is output. If you split 8 (wo)man hours into 8 hours testing and 0 hours coding, your output goes down; if you add 8 (wo)man hours to a software project, your output goes up. Even more importantly, coding and testing are not people, they don't have feelings, children to feed, etc. The comparison simply doesn't apply.

As far as your point about "bursaries" (had to look it up, it means scholarships), please consider that the original article talks about having more women's user groups and better conference policies and makes no references to financial aid of any kind. It's really not germane to pit every discussion about gender in software against apocalyptic scenarios. Yes, it would be bad if all of a sudden men were totally excluded and women were totally included, but we are far from that now, aren't we? Shall we worry about "loads of bursaries" when said loads become an actual problem?
Show HN: GreenCan - Mobile Recycling App
What’s New in Facebook SDK 3 for iOS
New chat widget for websites
Ask HN: Would Freelancers use a job board for "on-call" backups?
As a freelancer, I find that if I go on vacation, finding someone who is a) qualified and b) available to handle client requests/emails is huge hassle. Are there any other freelancers out there with the same problem? If so would a job board type site help solve the issue? Any feedback welcome.
The login system suggested should be used via HTTPS where you have to do more than just sniffing the traffic. Also, as the author mentioned, we don't do e-banking or stuff that involves $$$. Just keep it simple :)
This should be integrated into web browsers. Seems like it would particularly benefit people with high-density displays.
> "Don't listen to this study, listen to my firmly held belief". That's not how this works. If you want to combat a study you need to do so with another one, not by just saying throwing out untested assumptions.

Yeah. Combat the studies that you totally provided the link to. Throwing claims around saying "scientists say that" or "studies have proved that" is surely not how it works.

> Thanks for the condescension.

What part was condescending? Leaving vim in insert mode causes errors? The rest state of vim is normal mode?

> Having this kind of muscle memory is a killer for vi usage
for you

You are extrapolating personal anecdotes to absolutes.
So you have to pay money to the Japanese RIAA for the priveledge of letting people download content you created from your own website? This is getting ridiculous.
Github is also quite good (http://developer.github.com). They are straight forward docs for developer, and the prospect that the complete site is on github itself is a +1. I had some troubles with Cors support recently, and found it part of the spec within two clicks from their main portal. Try to

a) Keep headings readable (nothing fancy) and un-ambiguous. Don't make me wonder whether I have to go to Authorization or Authentication for instance.

b) Document everything. Even small nuances that you feel are implied. The API specs should change before your API changes.

c) Give me an archived version somewhere. This is easier if you just release your docs as a repo on github. This really helps people out. I ended up converting the parse.com documentation to markdown just to get an offline, readable version for myself.
The problem they faced, then, was in deluding themselves about their valuation, and raising more capital (and incurring greater obligations) than they could meet.

Digg were apparently sustainable at their prior valuation, and with their existing userbase.

Icarus problem.
The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms
Interesting question and answer near the end:

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The European: In contrast to Google or Facebook, you are not dealing with personal data at the moment, but the thrust seems to be going in that direction. How might that change WolframAlpha, and what new challenges does it raise?

Wolfram: We know that we can do scarily well at computing things about people. When you look up someone on the web, it’s noisy and messy. But by combining different data sources – particularly in the United States, where many sources are publicly available – we can pretty much nail a precise report about a particular person. For the time being, we have decided not to do it because the bad appears to outweigh the good. I feel somewhat squeamish about it. My guess is that it will eventually happen, but it’s not a trail I want to blaze.

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The real article: http://michiganradio.org/post/tracking-invasive-species-detr...
Exactly. Username & password have the exact same situation regardless of it being user input or stored.
Big Idea vs. Lean Idea
Jennifer Pahlka, Code For America founder Reddit AMA
+1 for Juan Cole, he was my professor in undergrad, and it was one of the most insightful college classes I've ever had.
Statistically, shorter men suffer more from heart disease, I believe.
Food servings aren't generally adjusted to the diner's size.
Maybe smaller people just get used to being relatively overfed.
What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?
"Nothing"? I assume you're referring to phones and tablets. You do remember that Apple makes more than iPhones and iPads, right?

Despite the attention the new rMBP gets, they are still selling iMacs, Mac Minis, and MBPs that are easily upgraded.
"It’s too bad Sublime Text isn’t open source."

Bad bad bad, if you are investing time in mastering a tool which could disappear tomorrow, or take a direction you don't like. This is one of the strongest reasons I chose GNU Emacs as my editor. I remember how burned I was when Visual Studio moved from VBScript to .NET as its macro language. All the time I had invested in learning its macro system and in writing macros went down the drain. Never again.

"Its plugin API doesn’t allow setting tabstops manually, which I would like so I could write a plugin implementing true elastic tabstops."

Elastic tabstops are awesome. This is a feature I do miss in Emacs.
Price conscious consumers are already drawn to android. Even if a free amazon phone was a decent android device it's unlikely that apple would care. And if it runs android isn't that still good for Google?

tl;dr - If amazon releases a phone it'll be android, low cost and good enough.
You have to get the check to a piece of trusted hardware for it to not be permanently bypassable (aka, not the device) by a jailbreak style hack of the storekit libraries.

The check HAS to be done off the phone for the hack to not be global and ever available.
Why doing what is cheap and easy can cost your business time and money
Tight relationship at every step of the product experience => almost forcing the customer for paying a fucking premium for every little service you need for a device you have already paid for and own. Too bad educated people on HN still justify that kind of BS.
NBC should be floating through the air for free so you should be able to watch it without paying anything.
iOS 6 removes the needs to enter passwords for app updates. finally.
Possibly they could make zsh the default interactive shell, bash is GPL. If you need a better scripting runtime python is probably a better bet.
Well that's the price for avoiding garbage, you have to do a little more work. It's not impossible to successfully have a branch of an existing sub-reddit. Just take a look at the offshoots of r/gaming: r/gamingnews and r/games; or even the branches off from r/politics like r/progressive and r/libertarian.

In your case, ruby already has a good news site and it doesn't need reddit. Rubyflow is more than sufficient imo
Their terms are pretty straightforward. You're not allowed to use their logo in links, since that implies a false association. There's nothing new or broken here.

You can link with text as much as you want.
Oh, fascinating! Thanks for the link.
I just looked this up (feel free to correct me if you think I've missed something): the value field in a TxOut is a 64 bit unsigned integer. It's true that by convention the unit is 1e-07 BTC (i.e. a decimal fraction), but nothing in the protocol actually cares, the "decimalness" is just in what you call it. Implementing this with decimal math is just wrong, and likely to break your implementation due to subtle bugs. Storing it in a database as a decimal fixed point is plausible as it prints nicely, but in no way would I consider that choice "just as good as" a quantity that was designed to fit in a native machine word.
Fosamax and osteonecrosis of the jaw
The article's author failed to provide any evidence to support his key premise "Non-Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation". It would be nice to have a substantial discussion on this interesting topic.
I know this. I was just quoting someone else.

I remember when power users came out far before v3. That was when I started browsing Reddit more often.
Should the price, quality of the product, quality of the service, or simply the way a company does business not jive with your principles... don't do business with that company.
Can you point me at some code comparing the performance of your JavaScript quicksort implementation to the browser's native sort? I threw together a quick comparison myself and couldn't see any cases where the JavaScript implementation was significantly faster than JavaScriptCore's Array.prototype.sort, and there were a few cases where Array.prototype.sort was significantly faster than the JS implementation.

EDIT: One interesting case is that of sparse arrays (e.g., the arrays which trigger JavaScriptCore to fall down the slow path that prompted this discussion). It seems that your JavaScript quicksort implementation doesn't handle these correctly: it gives different results from Array.prototype.sort and is dramatically slower as well. I'm guessing the performance impact comes from the fact that from JavaScript's point of view the holes in the array are identical undefined values. I'm not sure why correctness would be affected though.
The original iPad was very much sold on the promise of upcoming third-party apps. If it didn't have the potential of apps, I would definitely not have bought it, just how I didn't buy the original iPhone.
Evolution Research points to multiple path to solutions.
Hacker News, please DON'T Fix the "Unknown or expired link." I Love IT
I like the logo a lot!