skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really what happens? You can't hire someone with the same experience as the previous one had starting out, so prices are effectively rising. Is this related to the value of currency decreasing?
Exactly. I cringed so much during that live event because of all the 'amazing', 'great', 'innovative', 'beautiful' word dropping, I paused it a couple of times just to yell at the screen (but maybe that's just me)
jj0W

that should work for commands without spaces in them.

I remap jj to escape so it is faster than moving my hand.

in ~/.inputrc

set editing-mode vi

$if mode=vi
#normal mode
set keymap vi-insert
"jj": vi-movement-mode
$endif
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I agree with the almost all your points except about them stealing ideas. Ripping off the same game from indie developers is wrong. It isn't them using basic ideas like a top nav or usernames, there are examples of them copying entire games[1].
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/25/everything...
Finance doesn't work that way at all, though.

Capital is invested because of the potential of growth, and therefore return. You wouldn't buy stock in a company at $10 if you expected it to be worth $10 for the entire time you held the shares.

It's not like the people who bought ZNGA stock at $10 were somehow rewarded with $7 worth of stock in some other company when their shares dipped to $3.
Read the front of an Everglade spray can. I think it says "The Essence of Nature". Then read the back. The back is full of skulls...

While I agree some of the texts on the iPad mini page could have been better written, it's as usual just marketing speak designed to push interested customers that extra cm they need to do a purchase.
That's very nice.

For Python users, there is: http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/python/index.html

Example: http://fiddle.re/22e5
This just in: people are not all the same.
This is a great piece. As a business matter, its a "brilliant" arbitrage. Annuity != Perpetuity. If you can buy low (A) and sell High (P) you will do great. And its a lot easier to build an (A) than a (P) type biz. Lack of visibility (due to tech disruption) and short-attention-span (due to tech disruption) combine to make this a potentially evergreen business opportunity, especially for the unethical.
> And one of most conspicuous trends in the last batch was the large number of hardware startups.

OT, but please be kind to a learner of the english language: should that sentence be "one of _the_ most conspicuous" or there is some rule by which the article can be used or not in this form?
Zynga is a company that makes online games. And people often criticize Zynga for making games (online games, Flash games, Facebook games, casual games, etc.)
If disk performance is important you can also take a look at the High IO instances, which give you 2x 1TB SSDs, 60GB of RAM and 35 ECUs across 16 virtual cores. At 24x7 for 3 years you end up with ~$656/mo per instance, plus whatever you would need for bandwidth. By the time you fill up an entire rack it still ends up being slightly more expensive than your amortized 2U cost, but you also don't need to scale it up in 2U increments.
Except it's evidently sexually active, from your eloquent description.
I think at the moment they'd have to try really hard to release a device that didn't sell like hotcakes. What could happen, when they release kind of a dud (I'm not saying they did), is that they lose momentum.
i didn't realize that it was possible to name a capturing group. this is an awesome example.
This might also have to do with the fact that the story isn't really confirmed yet...
The experience can be perfect no matter what size it is :)
I use this with the fish shell, and it seems to do a better job of searching than the ^R in bash. Not sure of the difference, but I think bash only searches from the front of the string.
It's a shame that the Nexus doesn't have a micro-SD slot; they've given up a huge selling point for the platform. They could've bragged about a 64+ GB Nexus 7 that is still cheaper than a 16 GB iPad mini.
I hope content publishers will find publishing HTML5 video convenient enough to drop Flash. Once publishers are all on board the HTML5 video train, they have the opportunity to experiment with new (and unencumbered) codecs without affecting their user experience.
I think Apple competes where they have the advantage, UX is just their most consistent advantage.
There are a couple other methods too. There's a group policy setting (that you can define on a standalone system), gpedit.msc which says "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations".

There's also a registry key..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Dword: NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers: 1
But that's what GroupOn was betting on to begin with!
I'm getting more and more embarrassed by it each time they release a new product. The new ipod touch is using the slogan "engineered for maximum funness".

Yeah.
this is no longer the case. 250 is for the 32gb version. the 16gb will drop to 199 by google's keynote next week and the 8gb will be phased out.

the price i really cant wait to find out is samsung's galaxy nexus 10... if its lower than 400 it will potentially take away some of the new ipad's sales plus some from windows rt
Gitorious is also a god damn nightmare of things to setup and tweak to get working.
It's called Arduino.
The trend towards more hardware-product startups in the sf bay area is real and there is more evidence than just the increase and quality of yc hardware companies that pg wrote about. There are new hardware focused incubators (like Lemnos Labs), more hardware hackathons, and there's been growth in the sensor and hardware meetups for the past couple years.

However, it's possible that innovation in hardware technologies is out of reach of startups. I'm differentiating here between hardware-tech and hardware-product startups. Of course there are hardware startups that are attempting to bring new technology to market (go Integrated Plasmonics, and 3Scan!). Interestingly, a good indicator of whether a startup is developing an innovative technology is that Peter Thiel is invested in it--many of his fund-ees are slaving away in labs scattered around SF. The failure modes of these hardware-tech companies will be more interesting than the hardware-product startups. These companies may take a much longer time to develop tech, then the product using that tech, and then fail, because the market they try to disrupt with their technology may be disrupted by other technologies with better economics--energy tech is full of these sorts of baby elephant skeletons. Still, successful investment in real hardware innovation that wins leads to companies like the next GE, Intel, or AT&T so it makes sense for investors with deep enough pockets to aim for these.

Hardware products that simply integrate existing commodity components (like Blossom Coffee) have a pretty well understood binary risk profile, they either they hit or they don't. The new hardware renaissance PG is observing is based on the reduced cost of production, and new ways to crowd fund these sorts of companies: things you might prototype in TechShop (shared tools space) and sell via Kickstarter.
There is no such preference, no such registry setting or group policy. You have to use an executable that's set to run on startup that will show the desktop. Or you can hack/replace the shell.

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-boot-desktop-windows-8-skip-st...
Yes dougbarrett, you can attach a volume like you would attach a hard drive (modulo the screw driver!)

http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/getting-started/cl...
The issue, as I understand it, is not so much path-dependency per se, but the long lead times involved in the manufacture of new hardware at scale. Software has path-dependency too, but changing source code to modify a new software product is faster than changing physical machinery, processes, materials, suppliers, and logistics to modify a new hardware product.
N7's bezel is just about right. I have big hands i guess but if it was any less i would be touching the screen all the time.
I guess, but the new one doesn't seem to have an advantage. At least not one worth the hassle of all that. I'll wait until a noticeable upgrade.
They're in court now if you're nearby the courthouse in Queens and want to offer support.
I'll bet on battery life + more powerful GPU required to power a retina display would make the price of a mini way too high to do that out of the gate.
This is mostly just silly. They generally, historically, have released almost no products with retina at all. They've barely been using it for a year and have integrated it into just 4 products now across their entire catalog, zero of which went retina on their second generation.

I also don't think they're withholding retina or cpus from anything so they can introduce that feature in coming years, this technology is moving crazy fast, it's already expected in higher end phones and tablets and after that it becomes normal.

Cost is the only reason they'd withhold anything, they target a market and what that market can pay and then they cram as much as they can into that price without sacrificing their enormous margins.
I think most of the criticism is about how Zynga is completely devoid of creativity and originality. They're the software equivalent of Chinese shanzhai electronics manufacturers.
Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles".

No amount of competitive marketing seems to have brought the two product families into competition beyond "well I heard the iPad has books too but my friend loves her Kindle".
Yeah, uh, there's plenty of room for people like me who have lots of repos that either MUST or should stay private, but neither wants to use BitBucket, nor pay $5k/year, although that is pretty cheap to start with, my projects aren't for revenue generation.
> It isn't them using basic ideas like a top nav or usernames

By "basic ideas" I assume you mean "ideas that are better and more useful, and therefore more widely ripped off."

Your argument reminds me of when people say such-and-such band is so original -- yet it's another four guys playing guitar, bass, drums and vocals.
It certainly isn't great, but it's positively, definitely the best alternative. I'm one of the biggest retina fans - I just love Retina displays. But having two choises (retina screen, no piggybacked app - non-retina screen, run every single app without modification) I'd definitely choose non-retina.
A linkbait title from the hallowed journal itself? Surely this cannot be.
> both devices can't be the "perfect" size when they are different.

Unless they are designed for different usage scenarios.
I'll reply to just this comment, although each response I've gotten is similar.

I'm not claiming that no one at Amazon was aware that the issue had public visibility. I'm not even claiming that the public visibility in this case didn't contribute to the swift, clear, and visible resolution we've seen.

Instead, I'm asking for evidence that high visibility correlates strongly with a resolution. Honestly, I will not be surprised if it exists. But no number of highly visible stories that are resolved will provide that evidence on their own.

Certainly, the way in which a large company discovers that an issue has become highly visible is completely irrelevant. The question is whether, if an issue doesn't become highly visible, do they still try to resolve it or do they ignore it?
As a software developer who lives in Austin, I find it disconcerting whenever I hear about developer layoffs, especially in our city.

I hope this is just an isolated incident of bad company strategy than an overall industry trend.
Calling the software that Zynga makes a "game" is insulting to real games. Zynga's are usually different skins on top of a number incrementing simulator (for example, anything with "ville" in the name), that happen to increase a little bit faster if you bug your friends (often and repeatedly) and have them increment their numbers too, and you can only increment your numbers so often - but more if you pay real cash money!

There's usually no skill, no challenge, no fun, just a bald-faced hook into the effort/reward system in the mind.

The closest thing Zynga has to real games are Bingo, Poker, and Words With Friends. I'm not even going to count that last one because they bought it from someone else.
This is the type of low quality comment we should avoid on HN. Ignorant, prejudicial and irrelevant.
Or sell it as an upgrade for next year's version.
Any idea if one can remove and add your own memory to the new Mac Mini?
They had to keep high margins for their shareholders.

I would be surprised if they sold a ton of these. Why would I buy a mini over a regular iPad?
Same here. The fact that I can slide the Nexus into an inside jacket pocket makes it so much more practical than the iPad, which you have to explicitly carry.
"there might be an opportunity for a company that does volume manufacturing on-demand"

I've bought plenty of hardware from http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/

As an "open hardware facilitation company" I donno if they fit the startup licensing mold, but the general idea seems pretty sound.
It's certainly a marketing line with plenty of exageration, but I don't think it's particularly unusual.

"At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad"

It's "perfectly sized" for the role it's filling (one hand, more mobile, like a pulp novel, whatever), and iPad is "perfectly sized" for it's own role (around the house, larger games, magazine reading, whatever). They can both be "perfectly sized" in a marketing world, and I'm sure the design team fussed over the exact dimensions for a LONG time.

It's "an experience" "as big as the iPad" to emphasize that it will run all the existing apps, vs their comparisons to a "scaled up phone experience". The marketing here emphasizes that the compact experience is 'just as good'. I do wonder how well UI elements will scale down, but in a marketing world it makes a certain kind of sense to me.

Yes, these claims are a bit silly, especially in a literal sense, but recall that the original iPad was "magical". It's pretty typical marketing phrasing, especially for Apple.

That said, I frequently find the phrasing funny too.
I wasn't referring to lifestyle businesses like you describe. I was referring to real companies with billion+ dollar valuations. Plenty of them fail (either reorg or liquidate), are bought and the products become useless etc.

Here is a list of 2012's bankruptcies by assets: http://www.turnaroundletter.com/largest-bankruptcies-this-ye...

There isn't a single "software" company on the list. Now, I also understand that software companies are not as asset intensive, but it is hard to know what companies are "large" after a bankruptcy since their market caps approach zero.

My point was specifically refering to real businesses, not lifestyle businesses.
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I'm interested in any input or insights on the website, but in particular the concept.

The website is called Summon the Warrior and it's eyes-open self-hypnosis scripts and audio sessions.

Website: http://summonthewarrior.com/
IPad now with Retina Display
When I spent my entire Christmas vacation absorbing LENR a couple of years ago, it was just that... slight traces of reaction byproducts, and a few traces of pits in neutron detection gel, so, yes? The problem at the time was why so little of such things if it is fusion, but now we have this theory.
They were comparing it to the Nexus 7, which is the sort of tablet it's designed to compete against. I'm not saying that the larger screen would be a net advantage over a Nexus 7 for me, but I just don't see why anyone would expect Apple to ignore the screen size and not mention it at all.
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I suspect that lots of women will be buying these with the 4G wireless. That form factor could fit into a lot of purse and pocketbooks quite comfortably, but the screen is still much more usable than a phone. Having that around while shopping will be awesome for users.

I also suspect that lots of doctors will buy these. I suspect this will fit very nicely into a lab coat, and the form factor will be a much better fit for doctors with easier one handed operation.
If I were her, I would so immediately copy the ebooks that are available again, for now, then find a way to free them from DRM and close my Amazon account myself.

Then I would go lobbying for a law that would make it a legal requirement to make digitally restricted products available to the user in unencumbered format if the user's account gets terminated or if the company goes out of business. So, basically the user would buy the song/book/movie but hand over the appropriate storage to the company for as long as the account remains open. Then, if the storage gets shut down the user would still own copies of his/her files.
The entire market is down today.
the idea of a stress map is very interesting. It would be insightful to create stress maps of college campuses and see if it could be used to research & aid suicide prevention.
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Don't know why hardware is suddenly rising like a phoenix? One word: Apple.

Apple used to talk about ease of use and "computer for the rest of us", and they still throw some of that into every presentation, but it's no longer the lead. After Steve Jobs rejoined Apple, it was all about the look and feel of the hardware, not ease of use of the software. "Look, candy colors!" "Look how small! Feel how light! Look at those curves! Oooh, you can never be too thin. Did I mention thin? I meant thinnest!"

Then the small, thin, candy-colored devices emerged, and they made Apple the most valuable company in the world, with the media hanging on its every move. And what are they talking about, the software? No, silly, a Windows machine can do anything a Mac can do. Apple wouldn't be so successful without the full package of hardware, software, and services, but it's the HARDWARE more than anything else that everyone talks about.

This has given Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and other big companies serious Apple envy, which shows up in their "strategies". How can it not affect small startups as well? It's the environment these little companies are born into.
Why don't you simply turn off notifications? Or even better, enabled the 'do not disturb' mode in the settings app?
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AAPL has dropped from 670 odd over the last few weeks. There is no pattern with announcements.
I'm yet to find a "normal" that watches Apple Keynotes, though.
ruby > 1.9
I understand thinness in a laptop being important - I take my laptop everywhere, and I appreciate when apple makes my 15" more easily carried about.

But where is the benefit to a thinner desktop? Does it give off less heat? Does the thinness otherwise benefit it somehow? Its 8 lbs lighter - great, but I don't think I've moved my desktop iMac since I've set it up, other then to clean under it.
You can:
https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/design.html

It has a removable panel on the bottom.
Not a scam at all. As soon as Amazon tells us about a transaction, we send out the login info. Sometimes Amazon delays notifying us until the purchase has passed their security check (often non-US payments fall into this category).

Drop me a message with the email you used to make the purchase and I'll look into it and get right back to you (here: http://www.zoomstra.com/contact.php).
So what do you all say to the claim that r&d has proven that people will need to shrink their fingers to happily use a smaller touch device? I've used an iPad and an iTouch, and clearly the iPad is super comfortable. Is the mini, the smallest we can go and still have an easy to use touch interface?
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Can we agree to not say "iPad maxi" again? Thanks.
Startups are risky beasts, but this action appears to lack backbone and tact.

This concerns me because this is Zyngas leadership tone on display. It does not invoke confidence.
> To leverage the Desktop monopoly to force users to get familiar with the interface of Microsofts mobile offerings, which had no success to gain user acceptance on their own.
FUD.

Not FUD. I agree with that statement the parent said. Why else would Microsoft think of including the Metro interface with the desktop. It doesn't make sense.
More like appocalypse.
Well just going off history for my claims. Also note that the only spec that you are quoting is Resolution and PPI. There are many more specs to take into account, which ones matter to someone is ofc a matter of opinion.

But yes, i can fully understand your annoyance lol. Unsupported claims are just that, unsupported claims lol.
I was running into the same problem, and ended up sending notifications for non-essentials to the lock screen but not elsewhere. It's made extended reading much more manageable.
For all fans of fantasy and science fiction, the dragonmount.com is also a DRM free webshop for ebooks. (I have no affiliation with said site, btw. Just a happy customer).
Add to your list: build quality, touch drivers, and (big differentiator) LTE - not available on Surface, Nexus or Kindle Fire 7".
Actually it does work that way. If I thought that 3 companies with questionable business models each had a 50% chance of becoming worth 3X their valuation in 2 years, it would probably make sense for me to invest in all 3 even if it meant they also each had a 50% chance of becoming worth zero in 2 years.

Finance is very much built around the concepts of diversification and risk taking.
The iPad 1 has serious usability issues due to the limited amount of RAM. After experiencing this, I would be nervous about the lifespan of an iOS device with only 512MB. On some level, specs really do matter.
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I don't think mass-posting the Apple product pages to HN is very useful, personally.
Obviously there are cases in which the opposite is true and the interface on Android is better, but not many.

In my experience, Android apps on tablets are horrible. Apple has the upper hand here in controlling the hardware, and releasing the iPad mini with the same resolution as the iPad 2 was a really smart move. Instant compatibility with all existing apps.
There's no email in your profile. I'd be happy to continue this discussion offline.
Thank you. Glad to see that someone got my joke.
I suspect that Lithium decay radiation would be difficult to measure due to the water surrounding the experiment.

But this is certainly a very interesting theory.
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Nobody else could sell a product called iPad without getting sued.
I am new to NodeJS, but this seems like a pretty useful tool - I plan to check it out.
Or maybe the happened to have factories that make the lower resolution screens very efficiently, which can now be used again.
iPad mini has the same dpi as the non retina iPhones, and nobody had trouble tapping on things.
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Agreed that the copy is cloying, but surely you realize that the point is that some people prefer a smaller device? When I showed my wife this link, she immediately requested one for Christmas. This was surprising, as she had never before shown the slightest interest in an Apple offering. Then she said that this was going to sell like hotcakes, because at this size, it's not too big to fit in a lady's purse.
From certain political points of view, absolutely. From a image quality point of view, not hardly.