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I've seen a 2GB mini running Lion where Excel and Word were all but unusable whenever a Time Machine backup started. Perhaps a bit of tuning would have fixed the problem, but additional RAM was an easier fix.

On the other hand, on my 4GB (Ivy Bridge, 11-inch) MacBook Air, I regularly run Visual Studio on Windows (8, 32-bit) under VMware, with IE, IIS, and MS SQL Server running in the VM, along with a number of OS X apps (Terminal, Activity Monitor, Console, Safari, Mail, Preview, Emacs, X11, Script Debugger, and several resident utilities like Alfred and SizeUp), and have no problem dipping in and out of larger apps like Illustrator and Photoshop as needed with few performance problems beyond short (no more than a second or two) delays when switching to a long-inactive app. Do my 8GB MBP work more smoothly? Undoubtedly. But I'm running a much larger Windows (Server 2012, 64-bit) VM on this, and often another Windows, FreeBSD, or Linux VM, and I rarely quit anything unless I'm updating it or rebooting, so I generally have all of the above open plus iTunes, Xcode, Transmit, Excel, QuickBooks, and half of CS6. The only time I see even minor delays is when I nearly overcommit RAM or CPU cores in VMware, open insanely large files (in Photoshop, say), concurrently run several large, parallel compilations that manage to peg nearly an entire core in kernel mode, or go to town with live output from frequently fired dtrace probes.

Were you, by chance, swapping to a mechanical hard drive? If so, and for anyone else whose Mac "crawls" with lots of apps loaded, the single best way to make your machine usable is to replace the hard drive with an SSD. All recent MacBooks that don't come with "built-in flash storage" have user-replaceable hard drives (as in, "easy directions in the manual and doesn't void AppleCare"); the Sandy and Ivy Bridge models even support 6Gbps drives at full speed.

As for the iPad 1, I thought it was slow even on iOS 3.2. It was still quite usable and useful, however.
I first followed the link to this presentation on my iPad 3rd generation. It actually provided a pretty decent experience in that form factor. That said using this site in Google Chrome 22 does suck. Apparently the app designers don't yet understand responsive design / progressive enhancement. Yes it's hard, but I'd expect a presentation such as this to show how to do all the right things.
This really hits it. A helmet isn't some all protective force field. If a truck is going to run you over, a helmet isn't going to save you.

Actually: http://www.active.com/cycling/Articles/Bike_helmet_crushed__...

But, in general your point is correct. There are some dramatic examples where a bike helmet saved someones life, but statically it is unlikely.
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Has anyone seen this ? it claims to print at 25 microns res & its founders have an impressive pedigree.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affor...

I have no connection whatsoever to the project besides being a 3D printing enthusiast.
Apparently, BlackBerry 10's browser for HTML5 based apps is going to blow both of them away.
For what it's worth, 7zip contains a virtual machine too. Not sure how capable it is compared to WinRAR's, though.
Struggling to wrap my head around the nature of the issue. If the White House has nuclear football data in the same network that handles the president's communications, then we have major network segmentation problems. There's a lot more insecure traffic that's going to flow back and forth between the president's scheduler and outside parties.

Still, I bet that email traffic is going to tighten up a LOT at the White House after this.
Out of interest, how long did you expect your original iPad to continue to get OS updates?

Mine is ~28 months old now. Personally I'm not all that unhappy with that sort of support lifespan for what to me was pretty much bought as a "tech toy", admittedly and expensive one, but I never expected decades of support for it… (I've got a friend who bought her iPad1 about 5 weeks before the iPad2 came out, she's somewhat less happy than I am…)
I understand your sentiment, but I think you're choosing your examples too carefully. Other singularity-era technology could let us breathe underwater, or increase our muscle and bone-density ten-fold, giving us superhero like strength. I think that's pretty wondrous.
I'm not sure how this is an example of cable and telcos "owning Washington." The cable companies and the telcos built that infrastructure, and Congress forced them to lease it out to CLECs.

It's even less applicable in this context. At least the telco infrastructure was publicly subsidized. Nobody subsidized Britney Spears, etc.
I think you're choice of actions are perfect.

I wouldn't worry much about not having an official company name behind you - I've done this type of product validation a few times for my own ideas. In many cases, the customer is so focused on the value proposition that the company name is irrelevant. Again, it depends on the size of the transaction and whether its a B2B or B2C.

Should be fun, good luck!
Very interesting. Though I'm not finding it overly surprising based on everything I've read on effects of environment and nurture on growth and potential.

Few snippets I found interesting:

"These and our other results, together with the failure to date of whole-genome association studies to find genes associated with g, are consistent with the view that g is a highly polygenic trait on which common genetic variants individually have only small effects."

"By far the most plausible explanation for failures to replicate reported SNP-g (single-nucleotide
polymorphisms) associations in our three studies, however, is that the original studies whose findings we sought to replicate did not have sufficient sample sizes—and not because of any error in design or execution."

"Our results add IQ to the list of phenotypes that must be approached with great caution when considering published molecular genetic associations... Failing to exercise such caution may hamper scientific progress by allowing for the proliferation of potentially false results, which may then influence the research agendas of scientists who do not realize that the associations they take as a starting point for their efforts may not be real... And the dissemination of false results to the public may lead to incorrect perceptions about the state of knowledge in the field, especially knowledge concerning genetic variants that have been described as “genes for” traits on the basis of unintentionally inflated estimates of effect size and statistical significance."
I'm a student at Stanford, my personal recommends:

- Walk around Stanford because it's nice (esp. Quad area). For food, check out the commonly-admired Ike's place, and CoHo is an ok place to sit down and have a sandwich/coffee.

- Consider taking the hike up to the Dish above Stanford. The loop takes about 1 hr. There are two entrances and the road between the south entrance and the dish offers epic views of the entire valley and Stanford. You can sometimes make out SF in the very back.

- Stroll University Ave. main Palo Alto in evening. NOLA restaurant/bar is a fun, unique and distinct looking place to have a few drinks.

- Do yourself a favor and visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (I've been 4 times and still want to go). From there, Google main campus is only ~10 minute walk as well, and across the street a movie theatre Cinema Century 16. Downtown Mountain View is also ~30 minute walk and Red Rock Cafe is a nice place to pull out a laptop and hack a bit.

- For transport: there are many ZipCars around Stanford, and also Enterprise car rental (for longer periods) has a branch on Stanford campus.
This scams are happening big time here in India.

Sometimes they are enabled without your permission. My mom's phone number auto-magically gets subscribed for 'premium SMSs'. She doesn't understand how to send SMS's and cant use the phone interface apart from dialing a few numbers. Yet she often complains of money getting deducted from her pre paid account.

Called the customer care numerous times and every time all we get is - 'We are sorry sir, may there was an error in our system'.

Needless to say these mobile company thieves make millions from these 'errors in the system'.
That nut graf, 150K new tech jobs created per year vs. 14K comp sci graduates, made me think "whoa that's huge," followed by "hey, wait a minute..." followed by "can I trust those numbers?"
The NY Post is trying to generate controversy and sell papers, not perform real journalism or prevent catastrophes.
Interesting post. I guess I "agree" with the headline that you can raise without a prototype. Should you? Unclear.

I can only speak to this from my own experiences with fundraising (2x) - I've seen entrepreneurs raise bigger rounds with zero code and I've seen entrepreneurs struggle to raise with product in the market, customers, traction, the whole nine.

At the end of the day, all definitive conclusions are suspect. If you're a single founder first time out of the gate (I was), you increase your chances a great deal with a working product in the market IMO. If you're like my former bosses (angel investors in FB, 1 big exit to AMZN back in the day, several smaller exits as investors to GOOG), yes, you can raise without a prototype.

Or a PowerPoint, for that matter.

Or an idea, for that matter.

Maybe even if you lose your voice in the pitch meeting and just kind of sit around for an hour and then ask for a check.

The point is, every situation is different. On balance, I'd rather go into any pitch meeting with a prototype.
So the patent is expired now, right?
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The reality is, if they are low-pay contractors, they are probably not in possession of skills that would make them worth the cost and risk of hiring full time.
Labor laws protecting less in-demand workers is another issue all together.
Firstly as for your MacBook Air. OSX runs fine with 2GB and shouldn't be swapping constantly for browsing. And not sure why you are complaining that you got 200 euros for a 4 year old machine.

This wasn't true for me on my 2GB 2006 Macbook running Snow Leopard in 2009, so I don't see how it could be true now.

Thirdly a LOT of people thought the iPad was an incredibly feat of engineering to get all that it did into such a small form factor.

Marco is spot-on here, though: many reviewers commented on the frequent page reloading in Safari, claiming (correctly) that the RAM would be an issue in the future. This was the main issue preventing me from getting an iPad 1.
Try sellercrowd.com. Also, are you a salesperson?
I don't use Opera. But based on your C&P of the message, I don't see the word "upgrade" used anywhere. The message reads please update your browser.
I've managed to break it and get a few pixels of pink showing through at the corners in OSX Chrome.
http://imgur.com/9jT7m
Look good otherwise
Six small improvements in iOS 6
I'm not sure how it's going to blow safari away. Safari is roughly equivalent to the current state of the art in desktop browsers (the only glaring omission I can think of is indexedDB). If BB10 goes beyond that, it's going to be unusable anyways because it's all going to be BB specific.
Nice to see a registrar cutting out the middleman by preemptively squatting on some good domain names.
you don't need anything to raise a seed round (or do anything for that matter), but it sure helps your chances.

Other stuff you don't need, but helps:
- signed orders
- distribution channels
- Wireframes
- ...
Is it really? In all the states of the US? Maybe the reason is to discourage people from cycling?

I use a bicycle to commute to work every day. I think, I really should get a helmet. But I do not think they should be mandatory. I have been run over (more like bumped into) by a car more than once. But I was lucky and had no injuries at all. With my motorcycle it is a whole different story I had two real accidents and thanks to my helmet I am still able to write this.
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This is really nice! Does exactly what it says on the tin: fast & easy. Great job!
I agree. Top iOS app developers like Marco are dying to move their apps to iOS 6 (according to their podcasts + blog posts), so I think we can measure app compatibility for the iPad 1 in months, not years.
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Helmets can safely be left on the bike, because used helmets have no resale value.

I have left my helmet unattended for 8-10 hours a day in downtown Portland for four years, no thefts, even with fancy helmets.
State of the art implementation, using random projection for reasonably accurate yet hundreds to thousands of times faster: http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/

Random Projection is something you should be aware of if you do any kind of large dimensional modeling. It is magic.
No, but I do not consider violence inherently evil either.

As a matter of fact it seems most people do not consider violence inherently evil, it is unjustifiably glorified in western culture I'd say, by western I mean American, by American I mean US.
Another current article,

Epigenesis for epidemiologists: does evo-devo have implications for population health research and practice?
George Davey Smith Int. J. Epidemiol. (2012) 41 (1): 236-247.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dys016

sums up the most up-to-date research similarly. The author mentions an earlier author who predicted this outcome in 1927.

"Pearl's prediction (based on biological reasoning) has proved spectacularly prescient: molecular genetics suggests that of Mendelian influences of individually tiny effect contribute to the heritability of intelligence. . . . Indeed, the shuffling of such tiny Mendelian effects could, Pearl said, 'be relied on, I think, to produce in the future, as it has in the past, Shakespeares, Lincolns, and Pasteurs, from socially and economically humble origins.'" (citing Pearl, R. Differential Fertility. Q. Rev. Biol. 1927;2:102-18).

I've had the privilege of meeting Wendy Johnson, a human intelligence researcher who has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and who has worked with both the twin studies researchers at Minnesota and with Ian Deary at Edinborough. Her review articles are very informative on the latest directions in studies of genetic influences on human intelligence.

The review article "The neuroscience of human intelligence differences" by Deary and Johnson and Penke (2010) relates specifically to human intelligence:

http://www.larspenke.eu/pdfs/Deary_Penke_Johnson_2010_-_Neur...

"At this point, it seems unlikely that single genetic loci have major effects on normal-range intelligence. For example, a modestly sized genome-wide study of the general intelligence factor derived from ten separate test scores in the cAnTAB cognitive test battery did not find any important genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms or copy number variants, and did not replicate genetic variants that had previously been associated with cognitive ability[note 48]."

The review article Johnson, W. (2010). Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(3), 177-182

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/...

looks at some famous genetic experiments to show how little is explained by gene frequencies even in thoroughly studied populations defined by artificial selection.

"Together, however, the developmental natures of GCA and height, the likely influences of gene–environment correlations and interactions on their developmental processes, and the potential for genetic background and environmental circumstances to release previously unexpressed genetic variation suggest that very different combinations of genes may produce identical IQs or heights or levels of any other psychological trait. And the same genes may produce very different IQs and heights against different genetic backgrounds and in different environmental circumstances."
Obama better hurry up and apologize before we really make the Chinese feel bad about this.
Someone should come up with an unofficial list of all these bootstrap additions. They're really great, but I always forget about them when I'm actually get to doing work.
It’s refreshing to hear DHH’s point of view that most of the startup conventional wisdom--working 80 hours a week, the role of VCs and angels--is bullshit.
A couple more thoughts:

* This idea of data being acted upon by intelligences is essentially a generalisation of the canonical algorithms and data structures.

* The argument presented would also explain why anyone accustomed to a certain command line interface will swear by it over most graphical interfaces to the same system (the reason being that commands are usually a much more direct interface between the system and the user intelligence).
there will be homebrew alternatives for distribution. It won't be that locked down. Any dev can side-load today, so I'm sure with a little ingenuity XDA or another community will have a convenient wrapper for the makeappx utility that comes with studio. Go get free tools and give it a shot.
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>Hackers linked to China’s government

How they know that? they hacked them back?
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But it will be endlessly cited as if it does.
You know, that doesn't sound like an altogether bad idea actually.
I agree that Firefox's new built-in web inspector is bad ATM but I don't think it's wise for you to make such a powerful statement when you seem to have forgotten(?) about Firebug.
Bikes themselves have almost no retail value; they are stolen despite this because it is so easy to steal them and because the consequences are largely non-existent. A helmet wouldn't last 30 minutes hanging from your bike in a larger/crummier city than Portland; people would steal it just because they could.
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but terrorists!
Holy Hyperbolic Link Bait! How does the article lead with:

"Hackers broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident."

And five or six sentences later quotes a White House Official:

"This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network."

Since when are unclassified networks the most sensitive networks?

EDIT: While reading the article I was questioning the lack of professional writing (how many times do you want to introduce and explain the WHMO) and credible reporting (Why you no linky to other "reports" and "disclosures" regarding the attack?). After slogging through the article again I decided to see who exactly "the free beacon" is. A lot of of my questions regarding the poor writing and lack of credible sources were answered on the "about us page." There is a reason why this article on cyberwar does not read like a piece by Markoff or Sanger and it is the same reason that you will not see George Will or Chris Wallace discussing this article next Sunday on the news shows. This has very little to do with journalism:

"The Washington Free Beacon, a project of the 501(c)4 Center for American Freedom, is a nonprofit online newspaper that began publication on February 7, 2012. Dedicated to uncovering the stories that the professional left hopes will never see the light of day,"

I do not wish to start a debate over the politics of big media. I am mentioning the background of this website so that you may put this "reporting" into a larger context.
Too much hyperbole, especially regarding what "could" happen. Isn't the local pizzeria a dream for a terrorist, since he could feed all his men for a buck a slice? Let's get angry and shut those terrorist-lovers down! (Roll eyes.)

(Anyone wanting to get into these locks could pick them in 30 seconds. Locks are for keeping honest people out, not for defending against terrorists. Terrorists with 767s don't need keys to anything. Occupy Wall Street protesters that want to shut down a bank's elevator system will still have to get past security to get to the elevator control panel.)

Ironically, the so-called master key only appears to have four pins, two fewer than my apartment. The locks these keys unlock are designed to be secured by other means.
That article is about a particular implementation of toggle switches that makes a number of usability mistakes. He contrasts that implementation with iOS' implementation, and highlights how the iOS version avoids these mistakes.

The buttons linked follow the example from iOS and avoid the mistakes he talks about.
Why do people say stuff like this?
Patent specialists might actually have read the rules, at least.
> Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks

> U.S. officials familiar with reports of the White House hacking incident said it took place earlier this month and involved unidentified hackers, believed to have used computer servers in China

So even though their source is saying they are unidentified, the reporter is concluding Chinese government...

Do we honestly believe that Chinese wouldn't proxy their efforts? or even hack from different physical locations from different parts of the world?
Few things were.
I don't think they can. If you look at the giant successes so far they're a collection of companies our grandchildren will probably never hear about because they'll be long gone.

I think it's far more likely the NSJ will come from a country where nobody cares about incubators and startup buzzwords. China, Africa, Brazil or India... they have the immense populations and they're hungry.
Then nobody at FB is checking the error log, if there is one.
don't display it as a carousel to the iphone. on a recent project, i stack the slides vertically for narrow viewports.
In a fluff piece today on Gramercy Park the NY Times published this image: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/09/30/realestate/30JU...

I suspect they'll be seeing a bit more foot traffic in the future.
HTML5test.com says you're wrong.

http://html5test.com/compare/browser/bb10/chromecanary/safar...
<joke>Well then, I guess TechCrunch Disrupt is SOL.</joke>
I feel that there is a mix of legitimate criticism and “hating.” Of course I don't like to read the actual hating, but I also don't understand why we on HN should unquestioningly praise everything posted here simple because someone worked on it.
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This story doesn't sound plausible on two fronts: 1. Would the "system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands" really be externally accessible - directly or indirectly? 2. I did a Google News search on this and didn't find any other sources. News scoops don't last that long on the internet.
Imagine a start-up where you rent a tiny radio receiver, a really tiny miniature scale radio receiver in a big warehouse in Virginia next to an even tinier transmitter that you control via a "fan request" API.

So might that count as radio?
Do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively?
I'm wary of these, because form elements tend to be very, very very veryvery platform-dependent, and users (like me!) develop expectations about how toggles (i.e., checkboxes) should behave on the platform they're using.

I know this isn't your intent, but when the behavior of something like this fails to match my expectations, it is extra irritating, because I feel the author thought having something pretty and iOS-looking was more important than it being usable for me. Either that, or else s/he decided that I'm too stupid to know what I like, and decided to shove an iOS form-control down my throat.

That being said, I must admit that these are visually gorgeous, and their behavior seems pretty excellent at first blush. (But again, I am unsure how I will feel once I start seeing them pop up and inevitably being even slightly misused in the wild. I also haven't tried them on my phone yet.)
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