skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it is very much the case. We're talking about, at the very least, dedicated machines with a half gig of memory and hardware whose sole purpose is to run graphics and such without any extra OS layer (for the most part), vs a machine which is meant to have an entire OS running behind the scenes.

But even beyond that, the raw speed of the consoles is unlikely to be matched by one of these tiny integrated ARM devices for quite a while. The raw CPU speed may get there, though it absolutely isn't right now. But the graphics chips? Not a chance. On top of the fact that the integrated chips are flat out slower, they are also lacking a huge amount of features compared to dedicated chips. You need look no further than Open GL ES for iPad to see the major differences.

I don't have raw numbers but if someone were to provide them, you'd see a magnitude of power disparity.
Analytics. Another reason to use alternative channels.

(As for anononymization, as they say in security communities, once you create a means of access, who knows how and by whom it will end up being used?)

I'm glad to see someone from the business actively participating here; however, I remain unassured, in the larger context and perhaps also specifically.
>Unlike turkers, grad students produce much cleaner data and also see the data first hand. Which is important. I consider mturk/offshore as a necessary evil, rather than a panacea that will "make research easier and speed it up".

This is what we are trying to solve. You can get good clean data from crowdsourcing too if you give it out to the most suitable workers and have them work collaboratively.
Your first instinct was right -- this is a very valuable tutorial.
Marketing/Product Guy

Work:

- Dell Dimension XPS Core i5 8GB Memory 3.1Ghz running Windows 7 - 2 Dell U2410 24" IPS LCDs on Humanscale monitor
arms.

- Macbook Pro - Core 2 Duo circa 2010 with 8GB Memory.

Home:

- Custom built Core i5 gaming rig with 16GB Memory, Samsung 830 series SSD, 1GB graphics card - 2 24" LCDs (HP and Samsung) in landscape + portrait layout.
For those of us in San Francisco, it's easy to connect Apple's store design to the early Sony Style store at the Metreon. The Apple Store is not a direct copy (at all) but it's easy to see how it was inspired.
Lot's of trouble. Had to validate my account by having them send me a code number via phone and then typing it into their page.
Xerox actually wasn't limited to non-overlapping windows, the Xerox Alto which was demoed to Apple had them, it was only the Xerox Star that was sold outside the company that couldn't manage those.
One important reason why I am glad about Outlook.com as an alternative.

Not only is it getting harder and harder to read emails on a Netbook screen (there is almost no space left for the actual message), it is also getting painfully slow.

Gmail now loads and runs to much Javascript that my poor little Netbook can't even scroll smoothly anymore.

After playing with Outlook.com a bit, it seems much faster than Gmail.

Since Marissa Mayer is now at Yahoo, I expect a much improved Y!Mail soon.
But couldn't they have just signed the other distros' keys? (Naive question)
Awesome new musical artist information iPhone app
You say you only buy Levi's? All other jeans are knockoffs?
Internet 3: Rise of the Machines
That fixation will change. We're seeing a resurgence of the server-terminal paradigm that was popular in a bygone era.

People enjoy the idea of not having to sync their data because it's all "on the cloud" (eyeball roll) and because they have a 3G modem.

Sooner or later that enthusiasm will fizzle out.
Ummm... I thought Ubuntu was on Unity, not Gnome 3?
They had a similarly remarkable landing for the Mars Exploration Rovers. I happened to be interning at JPL with the MER EDL team when these rovers landed in 2004, and the level of precision and excitement was absolutely amazing. MER had 6 minutes of terror, and they do get some data during these 6 minutes, it's just they can't do anything about it because the round trip communication delay at the time was about 20 minutes.

I remember one of the engineers comparing the precision needed for launching and landing a Rover on Mars to hitting a golf ball in California and landing a hole in one in Florida.

Here's the MER EDL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g
Customer References: Why Investors Need Them
The UIs on this and even iCloud's webmail are so much better than Gmail's that I consider them functional improvements. They're clearly designed to make the most common use cases ergonomic and let you focus on the task at hand. Unlike Gmail, whose loud interface has no delineation between functional areas and bombards me with seldom used options.

When e-mail is one tab among 12 in my browser, I find this kind of focus and simplicity to be a real advantage.
One of the commenters mentions the Ada Initiative. Here is our reply, which we have posted to the original blog as well but is awaiting moderation:

We are very concerned about the harassment described in the original post. The Ada Initiative does not condone harassing women about their appearance for any reason. We believe that women should be treated with respect no matter what they are wearing, or how they look. In fact, many of our advisors dress in a way similar to that described in this post, as do our directors.

We dont control members of Geek Feminism, but we will review the example anti-harassment policy used as a source for many conference policies and see if we can make this point more clearly, since it isn’t obvious to some people that criticizing women on their appearance is also harassment.

This comment says that members and board members of the Ada Initiative have engaged in similar behavior at OSCON and conferences like it. Could you be more specific about what this behavior was and who was doing it so we can address this inside our organization? Note that the Ada Initiative does not have members, only a board of directors and a board of advisors.

You are welcome to email me privately at valerie at adainitiative dot org with a guarantee of anonymity if you’d prefer not to report this publicly. I have personally not been to OSCON for several years, so I’m unlikely to be the person who behaved in this manner. You can also email another person you trust on our 20 person advisors board asking for anonymity.

Thanks for letting us know about this behavior and I hope we can get more details so we can address this.

Valerie Aurora, Executive Director of Ada Initiative
That's a good way to get attention... from the SEC.
Reads more like a Haskell tutorial with some random nuggets of NLP stuff thrown in for fun, unfortunately.
Ricki Lake Starts Her Own Social Network
Never used Unity but I really enjoy Gnome 3, which is pretty similar from what I've seen.

A handful of tweaks and extensions have made it great. Use it every day for work.
I was somewhat surprised that they were able to get my profile picture from facebook, as all my settings on facebook were set to be very restrictive (at least last time I checked).
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/09/24/who-copies-who-samsun...

Last I checked the App Store and Safari were not available on Android. In fairness its a store within a store so the Samsung might not have been directly responsible.
Well, part of the reason the swimmers are wearing headphones is that they got them free: http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/branding/beats-by-dr...
Someone should send this article to the guys who make a business out of taking old pianos and, when no one wants their donation, doing this and selling them.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4317242
Stagedom: An iPhone App To Follow Updates From Your Favorite Musicians
I decided to switch my custom domain from Gmail to the new Outlook.com and used Windows Live Admin Center[1]. After changing my DNS settings to verify that I own the domain, it gave me an option to add a current email account to this domain. So I typed in the email address that I typically use.

When I opened Outlook.com I noticed that someone else's name was showing up. I went to the profile and changed it. Then I went to the People section and noticed there were a lot of contacts listed (a couple of hundred probably), and someone tried to talk to me on Messenger. This seems like a pretty big bug. I'm not sure if it imported the wrong data into my new account or if it linked my account to this other persons. Either way, pretty big security concern.

[1]https://domains.live.com/manage/default.aspx
All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White
The Soviet Union averaged 44 gold medals per year at the Olympic Games
It's not about remind you that you're on Outlook.com. It's about the tools it gives you. i.e. "toolbar".

Depending on where you are, the options on the toolbar change, and are really helpful.

I really like it.
Google Web Lab: Sketchbots
You can sign up for a new one on the outlook.com site but I have no idea how to migrate an existing hotmail.com address to outlook.com.

I can't even get to the new outlook.com with my hotmail.com address; it was only after creating a brand new outlook.com address that I was able to see what all the fuss was about
> In 1992, Greenspan convinced Clinton to cut government spending to lower interest rates and grow the economy, the opposite of Clinton's original intentions as president.

Clinton didn't cut total spending at any time during his 8 years. (He did cut defense, but spent that money, and more, elsewhere.)

The rate of increase may have decreased somewhat after 94, when the Dems lost both the House and Senate.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-unde... shows that the deficit reduction trend started a couple of budget cycles before Clinton's first budget.

Note that none of this counts unfunded liabilities. They erase much of the Clinton surplus.
http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple...
If you create a new account, it will allow you to select an @outlook.com email address. There is no ajax on the account name, you'll have to enter the captcha to know if your chosen email address is available.

- Click your username in the upper right, click sign out
- click the 'sign in' button on the next page
- click the white 'sign up' button on the bottom left
- see @outlook.com text box four entries down
The top bar seems to be the place where all action items are like sweep and delete so that is where I looked first and found it. I prefer the way outlook application has it though. A big button right in the front.
Your comment about "quickly filling freenet up with other content" seems to assume that many more people are interested in astronomy, gun rights, or the KKK than are aroused by child pornography.

Is that true? How would you know? Is there statistical information out there about what fraction of the population is aroused by child pornography? Given your statement about naked 16-year-olds sexting falling into that category, it seems implausible.
> So if you have any sort of business where people pay you per click

This. This is the problem -- pay-per-click is completely and utterly broken, and has been ever since people figured out how to use bots effectively. For one, PPC is simply not compatible with real-time reporting, but there are myriad other problems with it.

And honestly, I don't know if it's even really a problem worth trying to solve, since there are better models out there already. "CPA" ads [1] are by no means perfect, but they obviate almost all of the problems you mention simply by their definition: the advertiser does not pay unless whoever clicked on the ad does something "interesting". Usually, this can mean anything from signing up, to buying something, to simply generating a sales lead, but the important thing is that "interesting" is defined by the advertiser themselves. Not by, say, Facebook.

Full disclosure: I'm an engineer at a startup that does, among other things, CPA-based ad targeting.

[1] For those of us who don't work in ads, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action has a decent explanation.
I can't get through the damn CAPTCHA!
We definitely don't employ any tricks here. Facebook will return some data based on a username and we're able to use that public info to resolve the username.

Of course, Facebook seems to ease their privacy settings to the more lax version over time.
Maybe they tailor the advertisement based on whatever information they already have on the sender. Maybe if the subject line indicates the the sender and receiver are friends, it is assumed that they have similar interests?
Random: page has a display bug on the retina iPad in portrait mode, content width is too big
The Incredible Click Rate of Nothing
Comment was referring to this: http://allthingsd.com/20110923/what-are-apples-icons-doing-o...
I claimed this over a year ago and was downmodded: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2243880
Google Chrome Allows Access to Webcam without plugins
My main rig is a Custom Build based off EVGA's SR-2 Classified, dual intel l5520s, 48 gig ram, Radeon 6950 flashed to a 6970, Crucial m4 SSD boot drive and ~3 tb sata drives for misc storage. As far as the rest of the setup goes, I got one of the Korean 27 in 2560x1440 panels along with a few old monitors set up on the side. CMStorm QuickFire Rapid keyboard with the cherry mx blues and a Logitech g700 for the mouse. Love this keyboard / mouse combo.

Im much more on the sysadmin side of things though, and at any given time I could have upwards of 10 vms running, including esx vms with more nested underneath.

Beyond that, I have an asus g53 laptop, 4x Rackable 2u servers with dual quadcore xeons and 16 gb ram each and an MSA 1500 SAN in the lab.
I really don't see it happening ever. I have a lot of trouble seeing Linux distros be used by actual everyday consumers. I mean, it'd be cool if it happened, but the quality just isn't there.
Actually, x86 software ran fine on NT/Alpha; at one point x86 apps ran faster emulated on Alpha than natively on x86. (And emulated 68K on PPC was sometimes faster than native 68K.)
Saw the article on the front page! Thought about the business potential this morning. Trouble would be the cost of shipping, it's about 350lbs!

edit: That is the stripped weight! It was originally ≈400lbs (guessing). Evidently most of the weight is in the metal frame.
I think this looks AWESOME, but I wonder if there are ergonomic issues with the height of the monitor. It LOOKS like it would be a bit too high up.
Love the name "voidLastTranscation".
ManageWP asks for ideas, $1000 for the best one
historically, we have a tradition of being shit out of luck.
Canadian startup Health Wave Closes Seed Round
That is pretty freaking cool. I love how people reuse items and turn them into functional pieces rather than discarding them into landfills.
I'm immediately reminded of Manna:

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
BuzzFeed’s strategy
Apple design chief Sir Jonathan Ive: iPhone was 'nearly axed'
Where's the Samsung phone that says "iPhone" on it? Wranglers aren't knock off Levi's by anyone's imagination.
I like Unity. I've used Windows 95, 98 and XP; KDE 3 and 4 and GNOME 2. I prefer Unity to any of them, although I don't think it's perfect. But as others have said, I rarely go into a forum and announce how much I like something.
You are not quite right, for you, yes, your clicks may be real, because frankly you're small fry. You aren't managing a brand, there is no one's job hanging on the success of your campaign, no one needs to prove anything to you. So no bot is going to click on your links. However, for ad-agencies, and other big marketing companies, I know for a fact, that some of them engage in purchasing clicks for the marketing campaigns they do for their clients. Why? Because their reputation hangs on the success of the campaign. Slow campaign? Buy a 1000 clicks! I KNOW it is done.
For a pretty good analysis of problems with this, see Brad DeLong's take: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/07/equity-returns-and-the...
HN: Is this a feature or a bug?

My live id is a Gmail address. Went to Outlook.com, wanted to register but the form said 'login if you have a live id'. Did that, ended up on a very ugly hotmail-kind-of site.

Hrmpf. Went back to Outlook.com, but logged in now: The web interface lets me compose and send mails as me@gmail?
Which is what you really should have done all along. If you really care about Linux, buy a computer with Linux pre-installed and supported.
This is really cool. I wish I had more free time, but I will be using what little I have for this (and learning vim as I go).
So, what will happen with the millions of servers that run Linux? Also I would think the EU wouldn't be happy to see Microsoft lock their operating system on each laptop. Obviously some solution will be found.

On a related note, why don't Canonical start selling their own hardware? Most laptops are pretty crappy, I'm sure they could do better and having official support would be great.
I knew of one company that was, despite wanting to be acquired, made it as hard as possible. Someone showed up with the "accept no other offers for 90 days" and the company freaked out that they were being pressured. All discussion ground to a halt after that.
Ask HN: Going to MBA for a degree in Entreprenuership
I've been going back and forth about this for a while. What are the reasons someone would want to get an MBA if they want to come out of school to join a startup or found their own company?

I can only think of a few reasons:

1) Connections. Going to a top school will help you meet and get to know many people who are just as well connected and ambitious.

2) Professors. They can help guide you and give you tips much like a mentor would.

3) Status. It could possibly be easier to get funding and capital if you have a MBA from Stanford on your team.

Is this generally it? To me, it doesn't seem like there's much of a reason to get an MBA, even from a top school, if you're planning on doing entrepreneurship / startups.
It was constant experiences like this that made me try Mac in 2010, and I've never looked back since. Kind of weird that Bill Gates just sends an email about it rather than actually restructuring his business to fix it.
What I find frightening is that this company was acquired for $250 mil and I've never remember hearing about it. I really don't see those valuations to be justified.
There should be an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.

"Secure boot" creates barriers to entry for operating system innovators. I don't see how this isn't an abuse of monopoly power to tighten the screws on a market threatened by disruptive competition; if antitrust laws can't help us here, I don't know why we even bother to have them.

Does anyone know the process in the USA for lodging antitrust complaints with the government?
The only thing that is actually true of is underwear, and even there my girlfriend steals my boxers. Many products are targeted at women or men, but most often their consumption by one gender or another is more self-fulfilling marketing prophecy than real differences.

Limiting your audience to half the population seems stupid to me. Especially when it doesn't seem all that hard to crossover; mostly it involves not making those self-fulfilling marketing prophecies.
Very interesting but the news is over 3 years old. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/cp-bmw121508....
Quick plug for a co-worker who presented some of our findings on this topic last week during security bsides in las vegas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6evQ8fU49Zg&list=UU4PBNDL...
The economies of it are fascinating, and honestly I don't know what people think they're going to gain from it, as we haven't seen much correlation between buying followers and having an actual increase in the number of real followers. Everyone from wannabe musicians to politicians are doing it though.
Is this related to the claim that Feynman was one of the original forefathers of parallel computing?
I've been through one acquisition. The acquirer came to us, without us really realizing their plans at the time of the first contact. Around the same time, we were also contacted by a few other parties. What I've heard from other people, this seems to be the norm at least in consumer internet space.

It's rare acquisition in which the acquirer hasn't followed your company for some time. So you are likely to have a better success if you get into radars of potential acquirers by suggesting biz dev deals first instead of direct acquisition proposal.
Pretty damning:

> One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone

The more this thing goes on, the more it feels like Apple is filing all the possible lawsuits they can more in order to slow down their competitors than because they have valid claims.

I miss the days when they did not need to do this because their products were simply better than the competition.
wow...I am so happy to read all of these comments! I just published Mood Pulse https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=moodpulse.com and I am thinking about taking the three moods (happy, just ok, sad) to nine choices. reading all of your comments makes me wonder if this is a good move considering that my initial goal was to have a very simple app to record the user's mood over time.
> In spite of all this I always manage to come home with the brand I set out to buy in the first place.

Jeans are somewhat less complex. There are fewer ways to differentiate, so those differentiators become more signficant. And the makers try to differentiate across as many of them as they can.

Meanwhile, Samsung's own market feedback shows customers were coming home with the wrong box:

http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/27/samsung-tablet-returns-best-bu...

EDIT (ADDED): If you think this is "customer stupidity", you haven't been paying much attention to normals' interactions with technology, or to Samsung's deliberate packaging and presentation.

See the "What did you do with my Facebook?" incident:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_failed_inter...

Recapped here, "These are your users, read and be horrified":

http://uxmag.com/articles/these-are-your-users-read-and-be-h...
Thanks for posting your notes. I'm running into a "Function not found in Import Table" error when I try that with Outlook 2010. Have you ever run into that?
I think gmail is as close to a "mail as a service" as you can get. You can get your own domain pretty easily, and yes Google charges you for it.

You can hook up plenty of 3rd party native clients to it - if you want, you never have to use the web interface at all (9x% of my gmail usage is from Mac and iOS native clients).
If you, like me seem to learn a great deal from posts like this from Patio11, I highly recommend going over to his blog and, at the very least, check out his 'Greatest Hits' section. Well worth the time spent: http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/
I don't know why I'm even responding to this - but Daredevil "sees" by sound.
One thing I loved about Google Reader's sharing ability was the powerful bookmarklet. You could select a part of the text in the page, call the bookmarklet, and have that part only shared in an article. I used and abused this feature to share things from feed I wasn't subscribed too. It's also very powerful for webpage that didn't have RSS. And you could edit before sharing (even the HTML!)! How awesome is that ?

All this was lost in the Google+ transition (which pushed me to NewsBlur). The one thing that wasn't lost was the "comment on top" which allowed your followers to see what you thought about the story before reading it. You could also comment after if you didn't want to spoil it (just like in G+/blurblogs). I had only a few followers, but this was the best feed reading experience of my life. (Ok, I also love NewsBlur frame tech that merges content and context).

Wouldn't it be nice if the comment were on top of the blurblog share ?