skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest reason to use pagers over SMS: pagers have a guarantee for arrival by the service provider - if the device is on at the other end it will get through. SMSes have no such guarantees.
Leave both alone. Sorting by last access time is really useful. Saving the memory dump means there's space for recovery when batteries run out while asleep – it just takes a bit longer.
I hope I'm not falling into the same trap as people discounting the ipad; FWIW, I'm not trying to say that this new product won't catch on because it won't be useful to people. I'm trying to understand why it is a new product at all and not just a laptop; on paper most of the specs sound the same, except for maybe the keyboard being removable.
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Investors to Zuckerberg: Please step down.
It's interesting to me how easy it is for some people to circumvent their ethics. This kid is intelligent enough to know what he's done is unethical but I've never been a teenage boy so I consider what would come with that feeling of discovering a sweet hack: a desire to use that knowledge to assert power above all costs.
To be honest I might consider some sort of profit/equity split with somebody who had a really good idea (and had done the research to prove it).

Sometimes between reading stuff like HN and working on code all day I feel like I'm a bit too close to everything to really evaluate ideas rationally. Every time I've had I can usually think of 100 reasons to shoot it down and make it seem like more effort than it's worth.

The problem I guess is that most of these ideas aren't really that good because the person thinking of them hasn't really considered the effort and cost involved.

Reminds me of being back in school where a handful of us had learned very basic BASIC programming. Naturally we decided "shit, let's make an awesome game and be rich!". Of course such a project attracted entire legions of hangers on who wanted to be "game designers" or "level designers". Nobody thought that making a few shareware text-adventures or sprite based games would be cool, everybody came with ideas about how to make the next Doom or Sonic except even more ambitious.
Do not sink your money into this vaporware (it's a flexible funding campaign, so he gets any money that is pledged, even if he doesn't hit the goal). There's a reason why the Apples / Samsungs / Motorolas / Sonys of the world have hundreds of people working on new phones. This single dude doesn't have a prayer in the world of pulling this off.

The two red flags:

1. No functional device. Just some renders and a physical block of aluminum with glass over it.
2. No "here's my team of 50 people with loads of experience"
What is your business idea?
I'm sure they'd love to get 4G launched but they're all being held up by the fact that OFCOM haven't had the spectrum auction yet
I suggest reading this comment (and ensuing discussion): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420396
The USSR was falling apart in the 1960's during the Cuban missile crisis? I've actually studied the downfall of the Soviet Union and the notion that it fell apart simply because of economic or political pressures is rather simplistic.

The problem with the USSR over it's entire existence is that it had trouble maintaining legitimacy. The Communist Party effectively ruled the country but it's legitimacy was derived from revolutionary nature. The further the Party strayed from the promotion of world-wide Communism, its entire modus operandi, the more clear it became that it actually ruled for itself.

With this in mind, the Communist Party had to maintain a state of constant belligerence with the United States and the Western world and had to promote international Communism with every chance it got. International Communism had to be its end game and this entailed, ultimately, war with America.

When Gorbachev took control and softened relations with the United States, as well as shifted control of the country from the Party to the Government, he actually weakened his right to rule and that is one of the many reasons he was ultimately deposed.

While it is certainly true American politicians used the Cold War for political ends, It's simply not true that the Soviet Union was no threat, or that the threat was even vastly overblown. The documentary you mention is comical in that is is both fear mongering and condemning fear mongering.
This seems to be a good example of how not to do a product announcement. No release date, no "email me when it's ready" form, just wait and hope that you'll become aware when it's out. Frustrating.

I'd like to hope that this will become an open source alternative to Unity, but I'm skeptical. It's from an era where every game engine inexplicably felt the need to create its own mediocre scripting language rather than using a real language. Replace TorqueScript with C# or Python or Lua, and then it starts to get interesting.
I work in a very large company that has primarily Java for web apps and back end processes in COBOL/Mainframe environments. I've been steering things towards Groovy or Ruby for new projects, largely using productivity as the justification. Top push backs from upper management have been:
1) Universities we recruit from teach Java & most prospective employees already know Java
2) Costs of retraining workforce
3) They don't understand those langs can be utilized with our current JVM ecosystem

I feel pretty much all those reasons are specious and really shouldn't be holding things back. We've got a foothold established with success of some smaller projects using Groovy and Ruby to "prove" their viability. I'd like to try Scala next to see how it would fit for some of our other projects.

TLDR: At least one large company is making efforts to evolve beyond just Java in the JVM.
As a native Berliner and ex-Bostonian, I have to unfortunately concur with the article. There is quite a lot of talk. While I love Berlin as a city, and even love the generally positive and helpful atmosphere of the startup scene in Berlin, there is no denial that doing a startup is the hip thing to do, and it wouldn't hurt some people to get to work.

"I'm CEO of a startup" is a phrase I have heard way more than in the Valley or in Boston. For me a bit surprising as a native, was the aforementioned influx of consultants and management grads. It has become so sexy to do a startup. Or asking for technical co-founders.

However, as much as we can criticize this development, I believe it's generally positive that more people are trying to question the status quo, trying to find alternatives to the coorperate route. As far as I remember, that hasn't been the case a couple years ago. So sure, we should be vary of the hype, but we can go back to the roots and steer all this energy into the right direction.

On that note, here comes a shameless plug:
We are a Boston-started, Berlin-relocated startup that wants more people to use p2p-marketplaces such as Airbnb etc. We do so by helping marketplaces battle the largest friction for a transaction: trust. Our mission is the belief that a world in which we can trust each other is a better world, a world worth building. If you think so too, we'd love to talk to you. (nam@webcred.co)
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Agreed. If you want to learn to pronounce Spanish really well, take a class from this guy: http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/harris/
When I was reading this, I was thinking the same thing. Are the IT leads who put these systems in place forgetting the 90s?
First, ditch the word "freelancer" as you are running a business. The change in mindset is important.

Savings gives you runway and allows you to plan out farther into the future. Try to have at least six months worth of living expenses in the bank.

Network like crazy.

An employee gets approximately 2000 hours of work annually. If you are like me and you can only focus on client work for around 6 hours per day, then 1500 hours will be your ceiling. Subract from that all your downtime (sick time, vacations, dead time between projects, etc.) Set your rate accordingly.

Learn to say no. One bad project can be a disaster for your annual earnings.
A simple check en EFI should be sufficient.

IF (internal_keyboard_button_pressed && screen_closed) IGNORE
>In the current tech environment, any programmer worth their salt and known to be somewhat available is also getting these emails.

Is this actually true?
In the end, all languages are Turing complete, but there is still a difference. It is similar to woodwork (from the small dabbling I've done in woodworking): good tools make you faster and can produce better output. You can produce the same quality, but it takes a whole lot more effort.

But more important than the tools you choose (Makita vs DeWalt, Chevy vs Ford), getting to know them is far more important. And that's where the language wars seem to fail: the recognition that a guy with 15 years of good Java experience will code circles around that <insert your language here> beginner.
> To be honest I might consider some sort of profit/equity split with somebody who had a really good idea (and had done the research to prove it).

Why wouldn't you just take the idea and execute it yourself with 100% equity? The guy with the idea needs to bring something else to the table, whether it's a particular skill set or something crucial to the deployment of said idea such as a patent.
I've been wondering. Every time we have major droughts does that cause more irrigation infrastructure to be built? So do we become more resistent to drought each time we hit one?

I'd imagine farms also adapt by planting more drought resistant crops in the future.
...unless there’s an external screen and keyboard connected.
A country with nukes which is falling apart seems scarier, to me, than a country with nukes which is not falling apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov suggests that they did come very close to nuking the US. Is this what you call a "vastly overblown" threat?
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Makes sense, but I doubt many of them operate the built-in keyboard with the lid closed :). Ignoring the keyboard input in this case would be a cheap "fix".
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Exactly, and I like built in servers because it's easy to start messing with stuff until I find I need something bigger (and I often don't until it's time to actually think about deploying stuff). I can't even think of the number of times I had an idea, started installing a server to work on and stopped halfway through.
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That wasn't only ten, it was top ten.
This is good advice, but I think using the active voice as well as the present tense helps. For example, instead of "...a Preview is shown", say "Show Preview when...". Simple sentence structure is easier to skim.
Most of the "ideas" that come to me in this way are not really ideas. It's more like "a blog network", "streaming audio" or, in a few cases, more like "a blog". If it's someone I know, I discuss with them and try to give them some advice on what a situation would look like where I might be interested. Usually, I try to give some tips on how to start small. Usually, they don't, but keep on trying to build a team, or get someone to give them money.

There was a post like this on HN some time ago (a few months or perhaps a year) which I found well put, not too harsh while shedding light from the author's perspective. Does anyone remember this article?

Edit: I found this[1], it might be the one but I think I remember a better one. This one[2] about NDAs is also good.

[1] http://martingryner.com/no-i-wont-be-your-technical-co-found...

[2] http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-...
It's a bit of an exaggeration to get the point across. I don't get many emails, if any at all, but I do get friends or friends of friends every now and then proposing ideas.
My Dell Studio 17 won't. The power button is on the side on the hinge of the lid, and it will not power on if the lid is closed.
>> 9. It's designed for large organizations. Large organizations have different aims from hackers.
>This is where I think pg's bias steered him wrong.

I generally agree and it's ironic too since Java the platform was conceived with embedded programming as the target medium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)

It wasn't until the very end of the 90's when Enterprise Java came on the scene.

So claim no. 9 was weakly founded in only about 1 year of history prior to the OP article.

I still think of Java more as the SE version than the enterprise version.
Getting a database error. But thankfully Google's got it cached:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:idAZix5...
The only prediction he made is that he would personally not like to program in it and that he could safely ignore it. I think that prediction has come true. He ignored it and that had no detrimental effect on him. Not ignoring it would probably not have had a benefit.

He didn't say that Java will die, that some people won't benefit from it, that useful things won't be made from it.

It's way too large for some good not to come out of it.
Agreed, up to a point. When he talks about things he _does_ know a lot about, like programming, I'm an enthusiastic listener.

But when he starts talking about business, mocking MBAs, yet claims raising capital isn't taking on debt (I guess convertible debt isn't a concept to him), my eyes can't stop rolling.

His platform about his profitable company of one being way better than a break-even thousand-employee company is also infuriating.

It's good practice to stick with what you know, especially when you have a large audience of varying expertise.
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This is just incredible. Well done.
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Good point. Just to addd to this - I find most "hacker" types don't realize how much work goes into building a business. Execution is much more than just product build (but can, or cannot be a large part of it).
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Why oh why did they not come out with a SVG 1.0 that was static and simple to implement. A resolution independent replacement for images.

Sigh, what might've happened...
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As the owner of a first-generation MacBook Pro, I heartily concur. Those things had very high failure rates. My extended family owned 3, and all 3 failed within 3-4 years.
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Proper nouns at that.
In this case, sure. I mentally think of it as the excessively-specific adjective problem, because usually I'm wanting to replace "British media" with "media" or something. This shot right off the adjectives entirely. (This is explanation, not defense, BTW; you are entirely correct.)
I had the first generation MacBook Air, and if I was using it outside, it would shut down the instant sun peeked from behind the clouds.

They later solved this in a firmware update, but still, first-generation Apple products are usually best to be avoided.

There are exceptions, of course. For example, I've heard of no major defects in the 1st gen iPad.
If the laptop is powered on and the screen gets closed, the laptop should sleep, unless an external monitor and keyboard is connected to it.

I've had a few applications (Evernote being one of them from time to time) that prevents my rMBP from sleeping. Maybe there's something related?
That part is not part of the law, just introductory text. The law says in Article 5:

«3. Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia, about the purposes of the processing.

This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.»

A site can store data on a person's computer only if that person has give its consent to it or if it is technically needed. Your ad campaigns, your A/B tests, your detailed analytics are not technically needed and I want to have a say on whether they are going to be stored in my computer.

Please note that many national implementation explicitly allow for broad mechanism like "accept all cookies" buttons during installations as long they are set or clicked by the user and are not simple defaults.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization website:

http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesind...
That is a really great response by the programmer! I think I will copy it verbatim.
Well, to be fair, when ATX first came out video cards didn't require two or three slots. Most of them were single cards with passive heatsinks. I don't recall video cards having fans at the time but it's possible.

Actually, if you bought a Voodoo then you needed two slots; three if you did SLI.

The setup you describe is done now, more or less. My case has the video card at the bottom directly in front of a large fan that blows outside air across it. The card itself has two fans that suck that air in and partially blows it out the back. At the top the CPU has a small attached fan with a large fan on the upper rear of the case sucking hot air out. Some cases also have an extra fan on the side of the case directly above the CPU.

The only thing missing is the tunnel as you describe. But I have seen people do that with custom SLI rigs. I think that the problem isn't necessarily the ATX form factor, meaning the motherboard, but the case design itself. I've seen some creative case designs from pre-built computer manufacturers but it makes it difficult to service yourself.
Interesting. In the past, an external mouse (BT or USB) was required in order for a MacBook to operate in "clamshell mode". If no such device were connected, you couldn't get the laptop to turn on. Period. This makes me wonder if there isn't a firmware bug?

EDIT: An additional requirement (forgot): an external display must be attached. I'm doing some testing with my 2011 MacBook Air that is still running Lion.

CORRECTION: My MacBook Air is running Lion, not Snow Leopard. Brain fart!
I must admit, this doesn't quite sound like rocket science. When food prices soar, the likelihood for riots goes up. Who would have thought?
Unfortunately, freelancing is a service. Your main goal should be to go out there and sacrifice yourself so others can make money out of your work. If the work you produce doesn't make money, then you should consider who is at fault. If it's not you, then it really is you - because, you should have been consulting with the client in order to improve the product/service or to advise the client against doing this and ask for referral. This is the only case where integrity can be bought (by sacrificing potential work).

Servicing is all about satisfying the needs of other individuals - in the case of businesses, this is always to make more money. As soon as you grasp this, you will start approaching potential customers with the foresight to tell them you want to make them money, hourly, vs. you want to charge them money, hourly.

I'd say the best preparation would be to save up money in advance, so that you may work a couple of months without getting paid. Although, ideally you should realize that you do need money to start freelancing full time - even if it's not your own. Ideally, you will have been freelancing before taking the plunge and have had quite a bit of freelancing experience already.

In the end, the best way to approach freelancing fulltime is to see it as a business. You will be running a business (as a sole-proprietor) and be working for yourself and charging business rates. I'd also urge you to watch and learn from this: https://vimeo.com/22053820

It's a tough game and you need to be a serious player. Best of luck!
The keys and screen are extremely close to one another when the laptop is closed. With any compression of the device, it's possible the screen could press the power button. On my 2011 MBP I use a thin fabric pad made by RadTech to prevent any screen damage from this incidental contact, and also to prevent oil from keys from contacting the screen while my device is closed.
The bit about being, "known to be somewhat available," is pretty important. If nobody knows who you are or that you're open to such proposals, you won't get calls.
May I know which applications/start-ups do you mean? I'm working on a web-based SVG editor myself because I was unable to find such tool on the market. I can only think of SVG Edit which is unlikely to be ever usable considering how messy its code is.
I would have thought that AT&T had a robust DNS system too, but a DDOS took it down for most of a day a few weeks ago.
Hope you guys don't think this is just spam. We just want some feedback on how to improve and if this can help you on those: "damn it, where do you wanna eat" moments.
I think for just about any activity you can name besides checking email, most people aren't going to do it. Yet I'm sure that almost everyone with an MBP does something besides email with it. You can't design for the average use case when an average user doesn't exist.

Maybe I'm overstating the variability in MBP users, but I hope you get my point.
Yes.

If it was going to take off in a big way it would have.

Would have been much better off if the spec was 10% the size and covered 95% of the use cases rather than the actual monstrosity which almost nothing fully implements correctly.
I just replaced my 2008 MBPro with the Retina MBPro, and all I can say is that if you use it for actual work, you need to upgrade ASAP. The difference in performance is HUGE..
>What is it about the Democratic party that you're attracted to?

What choice is there? The republican party has gone bat shit insane and no one believes in third party voting.
Ladies and Gentlemen, grab your popcorn. Now, we're going to see the fanboys defend the heck out of this serious design flaw.
I'm not sure what causes the beachballs, I've been meaning to crack open lldb one of these days and try and find out.

As for Notes syncing - I've been making fairly heavy use of it recently and never had a single issue, hopefully that will simply come down to teething problems and be addressed in a 10.8.x update.

Your suggestion about merging Notes and TextEdit is really thought-provoking, probably not entirely possible now - but I can really see Apple doing that down the road.

I agree about apt-get, Homebrew's great and all, but it it's not fantastic. I can't ever see Apple doing this though.
You're never going to get virality from an experiment involving a band that has already had a hit record. The best you're going to get is to see how quickly the music media finds out that the link was released.
Listened to it on Rdio this morning, now I feel like I cheated.
More of a deliberate cost tradeoff than a defect, but the first iPad only included 256MB of RAM, which is woefully inadequate for the number of pixels it has to drive. As a result, it will not get new OS updates starting with iOS 6, and a lot of other software is unhappy on it. It's not bad, but the second version was considerably better.
Of course. I'm not sure how having read my post you could come to the conclusion that I don't understand that.

But the point is that this does not preclude businesses getting value from maintenance-nightmare software.