skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If such a processor enters the market, traditional encrypting will be forced to change completely. According to Lucero, the quantum processors power can be used for both sides of the process, allowing “quantum cryptography” to replace traditional RSA. Quantum encrypting would be more difficult to crack and far easier to keep secure — Lucero says quantum cryptography systems immediately notify both user and potential intruder when the system has been tampered with. For example, Lucero said a voice conversation over quantum encrypted lines would immediately become “jumbled” when a third party attempted to access the system.
"Powerful enough" is subjective to what type of programming you do. I largely do web development and the base model dual core 1.8Ghz i5 is totally sufficient.

If you're compiling stuff all day every day, the quad core 2.6Ghz i7 Pro will obviously be quite a bit faster.
I wish I could make this the top comment on this thread.
Convertible notes Vs Priced rounds
This is the performance difference. And Core i7 makes negligible difference over the i5.

http://www.barefeats.com/mba12a.html

But I have both a 13inch MBA and 17inch MBP and the Air is unusable for any serious development work. Screen is simply too small.
Again, the difference between the two populations "Danish" and "US minus non-whites" is that the latter neatly excludes a lot of society's poorest, whereas the former does not. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
People from the middle moving to one extreme or the other. Increase in botb extremes, decrease in the middle.
Allow me to retreat slightly, because the quality of journalism as opposed to other information sources isn't my true objection, and I'd rather not argue about it.

My true objection is the "new" in "news." I have absolutely no interest in current events that aren't directly affecting me. Paul Krugman and Nate Silver are smart people, but if I want to spend my time learning about economics or politics -- which I really am a little bit interested in -- I think it's absurd to read a Paul Krugman column telling me what last month's economic indicators seem to be saying, or to read Nate Silver's analysis of some DNC speeches.

So instead I listen to interviews with economists about work and analysis they've done over the past N years. I find history books that have been retrospectively written by important actors, and those which have stood the test of time. I'd rather hear what Paul Krugman has to say about 2012 in twenty years. That seems like an obviously better use of time than trying to keep up with reporting on current events, which by its nature is inaccurate, incomplete, and filled with ultimately unimportant details.

The only disadvantage is that I don't really have a lot of insight into what's going on in the world right this minute. But I don't understand why that insight is important. I care about learning true, interesting things, not just learning things.
I had burn in on my apple cinema display. got the screen replaced in warranty, happened again mildly on the new one later (warranty has ended).

my 27" imac had serious burn in problems. got the screen replaced in warranty. hasn't repeated yet.

neither a cinema display nor an imac is cheap.

burn in problems are common. shrug. if it's completely unacceptable, there are a lot more completely unacceptable screens, and have been for a long time, yet no one seems to be complaining.

a sibling to your comment says 1st gen ipads can get burn in issues and this is expected by apple and not considered a serious defect when it isn't too strong.
None of this, none of it at all, has anything to do with what happened to Paul Graham.
The article wasn't even explain why the sentence-fragment was sexist. And I don't see how it was. Yes, meetings would be more attractive if there attendants were more evenly distributed across the spectrum of the human population.

Otherwise some of the advice was really good for most kinds of confrontations.
I don't know. Culture war forcing people to choose sides instead of coasting along in a society where no one really cares?
BerkShares Inc. has been doing it for years now.
I know it's in vogue to rail on Facebook at every opportunity, but you're making an assumption that all this tracking and analyzation is ultimately only to serve you more targeted advertising or sell your info. While that might be part of the reason, Facebook also does a lot of work behind the scenes to determine what content to show you, just like Google does.

And while we're comparing Google and Facebook, why would it be ok for Google to analyze the heck out of your behavior but not for Facebook to do the same thing? Google and Facebook both make approximately the same percentage of their revenue (basically 100%) off of advertising, right?
This line from the article is brilliant -

Everyone who's ever written code knows that the compiler doesn't care about your intent; extend that to your interactions with other people, and you might find yourself behaving more fairly.
Trollbait. 3 out of the 4 bullet points are also true for his previous 3 year old MacBook Pro: 1440x900 is the best (actually max) resolution and it's not user-serviceable or upgradable.

As for the screen burn-in, the very thread he links to notes that Apple had been replacing defective units. You don't have to "get rid" of it, just bring it in to an Apple store.
If this was true, I'd expect Mozilla to be pushing this forward. Instead, we have Apple's native scroll solution and Microsoft's Pointer API. Neither is perfect, but frankly Mozilla is not leading on this.

Microsoft's Windows 8 strategy gives me far more hope.
Every browser has it's own strengths and weaknesses. Optimizing code for one browser could very well make the code run worse in a different browser. Chrome/WebKit having good profiling and debug tools doesn't really help when developing for other browsers.
Are there reason you can't use other browsers that are supported by Google Apps and run on XP? Say Opera, or Firefox?
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4239883
I came here to post the same comment. Very poor tutorial.
I have to agree on this one, no bias.
I have a first gen Macbook air sitting on my desk. It's probably the most beautiful machine I've ever seen, but it runs so hot that I had to manually lower the voltage to the processor just to prevent thermal shutdowns from watching Youtube videos.

Now, I always wait for at least the second generation of Apple products.

Edit: I picked up the Air second hand for a very good price
I've also noticed and observed this for a long time. There seem to be a lot of "this isn't new" and "who are you to say what's interesting" comments here, but they are wrong and I can tell you why...

As we all do, I know people in person with whom I'm connected on social media. In person, they know there's a social contract and they abide by it. They refuse to drone on with detailed trivia, because there'd be a price to pay, socially, and they're rather not pay it. But they check in on foursquare, relay that to twitter. They post what they're having at chipotle, which is not a unique gourmet experience. Ad nauseam.

They would not dream of doing this in person because it would make them a boor. Yes, a boor. Let's not mince words. They know it. We all know it. The only people who do this in person actually are boors.

But somehow it's OK if it's on social media? No, it's not OK. It's still boorish.
Having to target JavaScript. You then have issues with debugging, overly convoluted build processes etc.
I stopped reading at "we are totes getting smarter".
I don't have much karma on HN yet, but I don't see any reason for down voting my comment. Can someone explain to me why my comment is considered "not useful" or stupid ? am I doing something wrong by expressing my opinion in a genuine way I can ?
Yea I kind of which now I had kept the 98. It was working quite well by the time I gave it up, but there were safety related upgrades on the new build that caused me to switch.
>> though none of their plans have been included in the spreadsheet.

Which is a shame because between Voda (work phone), O2 (previous long term customer) and Three (past 2 years), Three wins hands down, previously O2 seemed the best - to me anyway.

Cheap as chips too, £15/mo PAYG, unlimited data, 300 mins, 3000 sms. Can reduce to £10/mo with a 12 month contract but that also caps the data. They're tethering friendly too.
Yes, but what percent of workers in the public sector are unionized? The answer is 37%, and I would guess that their hourly pay [all compensation included] is significantly higher than their non union counterparts, and the quality of work is much lower. That is the argument being made.
Other than the fact that the Publisher's link is 'more right' to link to, it may just be the fact that Amazon's a competitor in the tablet space.
You're either having fun or trying to convince everyone that you are having fun. They are mutually exclusive. If you're having actual fun, you're not thinking about stopping to tweet it.
My own personal experiences with unions have all been horrible, but I'd still much rather live in a world with unions than one without. The problem is that unions as a group have won the big battles - the right to have a life and to have a wage to support it - and there's only relatively humdrum stuff left.
The Quantum Supercomputers: the Dumbest Computers Ever Created, and the Best
By law, yellow means "stop if possible to stop safely". Drivers should expect the yellow light to be at least 4 seconds (legal minimum in most states). Stopping at a yellow is not a problem.
It's exactly analogous. There is a logically consistent answer to the question "tell me something other than what Joe McBlow would do in situation X"; it's just that Joe McBlow can't give it to you.
I'm not even going to list all the apps and services that claim to improve the way you ____, or bring you closer to ____, or make ____ exciting and fun, or...

We need to stop seeing social networks as a way augment real life, and more a way to capture life as it is. We're so connected to the internet now anyways that there are very few places left where the internet provides any honest solitude. Even gaming is changing like this with professional circuits, tournaments, yet there are high ranked gamers who don't want to participate because they don't want to be in the public.

I just happen to be a recent college grad. Go back a few years and instead of food pictures, it's drunken party pictures.

Same exact thing, except a bunch of 18 year old kids goofing off with a camera and alcohol.

But if you go back a bit earlier, when Facebook hadn't yet blown up, the content was very different. There were status updates on relationships. People helping eachother with homework. News articles that people liked. Conversation threads. Funny jokes. All of it without fear of judgement.

This could be the fact that I've grown up and many of my cohort don't have the same time for those activities. And also the fact that a real identity has much to do with it. But I think it's just that the way we view social networks has changed. And not in the direction that most founders/investors/really big socially connected visionaries realize. Yet that's where they promise big $$.

I want to see someone giving to a project they like on Kickstarter. I want to see someone learning something new. I want to see someone build something. I want to my friends meeting new people and where they met them. I want to see people's accomplishments. I want to see someone vote. I want to see people's fears. I want to see if someone's life has been impacted. If I'm on a social network for my life, I want to see real life.

I don't really want to see pictures of food.
Seems like VA drivers should stop racing yellow lights, and should maintain safe following distance. Even if the driver ahead chooses to roll into a stop at a green light, drivers behind should be able to stop safely.
Complex on the fly calculations would probably not be worth it, but simple stuff like content generation based on seeing where the person is from would be easy to automate.

Though you and others may still enjoy personally sending emails and that's fine.
IPhone 5? No.
I know it may be 'more right'...but if some random 'tech famous person' were writing this post, which links would they use? More likely than not, they would use Amazon's links.

This seems like it took extra effort to look for these titles on each of their publisher's sites.
Some counties have been caught setting yellow times below the 4sec state minimum.
Surprising to me is that Amazon is charging more for the Kindle version than the hard cover of "Awakening Joy" ($19.34 vs $17.16): http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Joy-Steps-That-Happiness/dp/...
I think there are a couple of parts to social networking: intimacy and performance. I wrote more about that here: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/intimacy-and-performance-on-facebo...

I think the problem is when you privilege performance over intimacy, which privately owned and operated social networks have incentives to do.

Which is one of the many reasons I'm rooting for a decentralized, distributed social networking solution. I've got high hopes for tent.io, for example.
"I know it may be 'more right'...but if some random 'tech famous person' were writing this post, which links would they use? More likely than not, they would use Amazon's links."

I don't think Bill Gates needs the referral link revenue from Amazon ;)
Absolutely. I'm not sure about you but this boorish behavior really does spill into real life. People may not be describing every asinine detail of their life to you in person but when they pull out their phones to post status updates and pictures and check their news feed every ten seconds its basically the same thing and it makes them awful to be around. I only update my status when I'm alone and bored. Boring people seem to update their feed when they're in the middle of some action but still boring.
1280x720 is 720p "HD"
I guess someone remembers pg's tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/statuses/171840230373081088
I think this study is cited more than it is warranted. The study measures happiness compared to income. But it says nothing about overall wealth. It makes sense that more income helps happiness only up to a point, as the stresses of simply securing that income become the main drivers of daily stress once basic needs are met. I wonder what the relationship between hourly rate vs happiness looks like.

When income is casually mentioned it is usually understood to mean wealth. This study is then implicitly an argument against focusing on amassing too much wealth, with the claim that being richer won't make you happier. But the methodology of the study just doesn't back this up. We need to be careful how and when it is cited.
Exactly. Bringing down the barrier of being a boor is not advancing my experience of your product.

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of shit that's permissible in on Quora, but not permissible in a room filled with 500 people. Sure it's great intended use of the website, but is it intended use of the user?

http://www.quora.com/Seattle-WA/Who-are-some-entrepreneurshi...
I heard the C is more for advanced programmers. can i use java
(taking it at college) or javascript for iOS?
> Last time I did that was to upgrade a 2GB to a 4GB for my previous laptop. It cost me as much as my Apple upgrade from 8GB to 16GB.

This is either a lie or some messed up apples-to-oranges comparison. There's no way upgrading via Apple is even close to buying RAM and replacing it yourself.

8 -> 16 GB upgrade via Apple costs $200

http://i.imgur.com/gDCdQ.png

If you buy it yourself, it's $77

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144...

(and that's not even counting that you can sell your old 8GB, the cheapest I can find on eBay is $39.90)
That makes it worse :D He knew it wasn't upgradable, bought it anyway, and now he's complaining about it?
No, APIs won't make Biz Dev obsolete.

Yes, APIs will cause the role of Biz Dev to evolve to the next step in it's business function in the same general direction that the Internet has forced sales people to evolve.
Ah ha! That's actually kind of cool.

Power's given as: P = V^2 * R
R is given as: R = rhoL/(pir^2)
Substituting: and clumping constants: P = (V^2 / r^2) * (rho*L/pi)
Weight is proportional to r^2, we can see that voltage and weight are inverses of one another, and increasing the voltage for a fixed amount of power decreases the radius necessary to transmit it, decreasing the weight.

I really wish I still had my lecture notes about the energy flow through free space, this is the best I could find online - http://amasci.com/elect/poynt/poynt.html.
I read the title of this, and I thought this was going to be asking about automatically creating normalized schemas given the information.

Yes, you can eventually do it yourself, but I only ever have to create database schemas once every 6 months or so. If I could plug in the information using some higher level language, and it can crunch out the tables for me, then that would be pretty cool. I know enough about databases to check to see if the schema is right, or compare it to my constraints.

Or in the OP's case, this system would take the existing tables, and give you some sort of migration scripts to get the data in normalized form.
I had to look up "cissexual".

Here ya go: "In gender studies, cisgender and cissexual gender identities are two related types of gender identity where an individual's self-perception and presentation of their gender matches the behaviors and roles considered appropriate for one's sex." "Antonyms: transgender, transsexual."

There's something satisfying about the fact that, despite four years of Latin and possession of all the other tools I needed to get there on my own, the field of Gender Studies caught me off my game with a word that means "normal".

"Normal" is a perfectly good word. I don't advocate the being of it, but I'm not afraid to say it...

And somehow I'm sure this makes me an awful person.
Yes, exactly this. I clicked the try now and immediately left the page. I still don't know what the site does, there wasn't any *features page or anything to make me curious enough to try this out.
Perhaps, but "other people" are not compilers. Having real interactions with them requires a lot of nonverbal communication and interpretation of intent.
and I'm tempted to make a table to store member-organization entries. But unfortunately there are several hundred queries in the app and this is nontrivial to write, much less exhaustively test

It is possible to normalize the database and still present the denormalized form to the app using MySQL views (I'm assuming MySQL here). You have your member table, organization table, and a member_organizaion join table with all your foreign key constraints, and you create a view as a select join.
The price difference was what stuck out to me. I currently pay over $100/mo for the cheapest AT&T plan that includes more than 0 minutes, more than 0 text messages, more than 0 data, and tethering. I'll be moving to Verizon soon, which will cost $90/mo. Apparently you can buy this service in the UK for $16/mo.
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but your friend or acquaintance will have heard it from "the news", so it will be the same as watching it yourself as far as being informative, and without looking into the issue yourself, you'll be unable to offer counter-arguments to your friends who are parroting the mainstream news.
> if the browser can't support that, then it's the browser's fault

If you're creating a subpar user experience, then it's your fault. You can blame the webview all you want, but your users are going to blame you.
I'm sorry, I thought you were going to claim Apple clearly ripped some UI elements off from Unity or Gnome or something.

Instead, you're saying OSX, which is BSD-based, borrowed elements from...BSD-based projects?

Wow. What's next? Are you going to call out the Kubuntu team?
If Samsung makes some of the retina displays, does that mean more laptops will have it soon?
Weird, it's showing up as $15.99 for me.
You can build an html5 app for either mobile platform, but it will have to run in a browser, not natively.
At least part of this is Apple's foreigner tax. 170GBP is roughly $275 US, but the equivalent upgrade in the US is only $200. Well, "only".
That's a shame, I totes said smarter things after that! ;) I'm new here, so will try & speak less colloquially if that's the preferred tone.
Collision rate isn't what we want to minimize; fatality rate is. And the odds of pedestrian death in a collision are about 5% at 20mph, 45% at 30mph, and 85% at 40mph. Source: http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm

As a side note, when claiming statistics support your point of view, please cite those statistics. Keeps everyone honest. Thanks.
The author is clearly not "normal" him/herself, so it's not surprising that he/she might have a problem using the word.

Not that there's anything wrong with not being normal, but this person seems to be rather obsessed with gender issues and sexism.
Is spanner written in cc or java?
I agree with this. In order to be a citizen of a democracy, you need to be informed. Most things require research and listening to different points of view. They can't just be reasoned out. They require paying attention. Most of what you hear in mainstream or most any news will be noise, but there are bits in the stream that you need to sift out in order to participate in the government of your society.

Of course, democracies around the world are flawed, and being informed about the world will not necessarily lead to change, but being uninformed about the world will necessarily lead to change for the worse. Being a citizen of a democracy is about more than voting every few years. It's a full-time responsibility, and if you just take yourself out of it, you lose it.
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I don't think you can use unions. In the draft of the ISO-IEC 9899 standard (C99) I have, paragraph 6.2.6.1.7 (I'm not kidding) says

> When a value is stored in a member of an object of union type, the bytes of the object
representation that do not correspond to that member but do correspond to other members
take unspecified values.

So no undefined behaviour (nasal demons and such) but still unspecified.
APIs do not eliminate biz dev, but they do make it easier and faster to get deals done. I get the impression that the author might not have a firm grasp of what business development people actually do ("they do deals" is not a sufficient explanation).

I know that biz dev people love self-service APIs - and that they're no longer the gatekeepers of API keys, and can instead focus that time on creating unique partnerships and closing more deals.
X was our original inspiration for web-based apps. When we first thought of the idea it was in X terms (pun acknowledged though not intended): could we make the software run on the server and use the browser as an xterm?
Sorry, I expect the worst from the HN crowd these days. See my most recent comment for an example.

NYC is notorious for its poor Verizon LTE coverage. Right now, the US LTE market is "Verizon," however, as AT&T has rolled out slowly and Verizon LTE covers some high double-digit percentage of the US.
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