skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, just "fanboy" stuff...

The power of the Apple brand is an important factor for Apple, sure. But the article provides almost no analysis of the distinction between company and brand and how they play out. It merely touted the brand part.
Someone once said Windows 8 looks like a 5 dollar app. That sums it up for me
How I Blew My Marriage
Couldn't the argument be made that Airbnb is bad for hotels and landlords though? If it's my wireless network, shouldn't I have the right to dictate what gets broadcast on it? You don't have to connect to it.
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I actually agree and disagree.
Disagree: I used the windows 8 RC for a while and I actually like it (The desktop portion, metro was a waste for a non-touch screen PC). The additions to the OS were absolutely worth while, especially at these prices. I would upgrade today, without any concern if....

Agree: It wasn't a headache:) I have 2 ATI 4870s in crossfire right now and the ATI drivers were not working well. A lot of stuff that worked on windows 7 was not working on windows 8. Granted, that was the RC, but I don't want to install and find out that it wasn't fixed.
2. Users need the option to opt-out of metro. Period (!).

I'm going to wait for SP1, allow developers to catch up a bit and then jump in. I really liked the speed and the additions made to windows 8, I just think it needs a little time mature.
Thank you! Appreciate it :-)
Yep, it's on my Safari bookshelf right now.

From the insert date, it appears the rough cut became available there way back in May.
Order of magnitude without any base specified is commonly understood as being base 10, and it is extremely confusing to use other bases, as no one else uses them as 'orders of magnitude'.

You can talk about logarithmic scales without risk of confusion.
No, because in that case I am getting exactly what I expect. An ad from an ad network that the site I am visiting chose to use. That is not unexpected 3rd party manipulation.

Would you be okay with me going into coffee shops and running a NewsTweek node on their wifi that swapped out all the advertisements with ones that I could get paid for? Of course you would not, and not merely because I was not the operator of the hotspot.
We have a chance to change that! This is a shout-out to all the women out there who are working on startups-- apply to YC!!
Signed up. Hope this isn't a phishing scam. It seems real, but I guess we will see.
Amazon Reports First Quarterly Loss in 4 Years
NoSQL is no Oracle Killer
there appears to be an error in the charts for salary by city.

the bottom two salaries are both 50k, it seems like the second one should be 60k
Kickstarter: Forced, Diablo III meets Left 4 dead
Metro reminds me of the Acer Computer Explorer (I think that was the name, I was 11 at the time) that was installed on my very first computer (windows 95).

The computer booted up to a home screen with icons for all of your programs, and you had to click exit to desktop to get into windows.
I found this out in a predictable way, at Google they had machines that they bought for desktops which came with an OEM windows sticker but they always put Goobuntu on. I needed an XP license for a project so I thought, "Oh I'll use this one, I know its not being used elsewhere." and did an install with a vanilla distro and the product code.

The first thing that broke was it wanted the oem cab file. Fixed that.

Then it would complain "this product key is intended for the original system."

Since I was running in a VM I changed it piece by piece until it accepted the product code, first changed the type of CPU it was reporting, then the bios identifier string, and finally the ethernet MAC address. It finally acceepted the product code after all of that (not sure which parts were optional but only needed it for like a week) Considered those licenses pretty much worthless from that point on.
I've held off incorporating because...well, I just haven't gotten around to it. I guess I should get around to it, since I'm hoping to release in a couple weeks anyway.

Sad that I'll miss out on the chance to participate as a result, though.
Sorry, had to look that up. From my brief glance this is not the same thing as I understand it. Intel's RST seems to be just their version of RAID. The Fusion Drive doesn't seem like a RAID to me. RAID provides speed benefits when data is split across multiple HDDs that can be accessed simultaneously. This doesn't seem to be what Fusion Drive does.

For example, on my Win7 machine I have a SSD as my main drive and a HDD for storage. Since space is at a premium on my SSD I can install applications that I rarely use and files for storage on the HDD. Applications that I want to load quickly I install them on the SSD.

But I have to do all this manually.

Fusion Drive seems to be software in the OS that handles that idea for you. Anything you use constantly will be moved to the SSD for the speed benefit while everything else you rarely use goes to the HDD where speed is not as big a deal.
Brad Feld: Is Big Data Bullshit? Not Quite, But Don’t Be Distracted
> Publishers trying to make an honest buck will dislike this.

Publishers most likely won't know this is happening.

> Cafe customers that just want coffee and wifi and not your political convictions will dislike this.

It is up to the cafe owner whether they want to do this, or whether they want to put a political sign on their windows for that matter.

> The privacy conscious who now have their browsing data being sent off to an anonymous third party will dislike this.

All advertising networks sends browsing data to third parties. Whether it is this one or some other one doesn't seem that big a deal.
What's wrong with wanting to interact with strangers? We've built entire startups around that - Meetup, GrubWithUs, Couchsurfing, etc, all come to mind.

God didn't come down and carve the Approved And Valid Contexts of Facebook Friending on a piece of rock.
Widespread iMessage Outage Affecting Many Users Around The World
Tim Cook: Microsoft’s Surface Is A “Fairly Compromised And Confusing Product”
Does the Android version offer the same functionality?
Perhaps this is where Hong Kong can be a huge asset for china, giving them an open centre but not an open country.
Two hours looks about right for an average. While it's great that everyone gets paid (heh, wouldn't it be nice if that could scale to say... architectural comps or ad pitches), saying that $2.50 is a lot in some countries is just a bogus argument. So what if it is a lot of money to some people? Did you specifically seek out designers in developing countries? With graphics software, broadband, and 2 hours of free time to do little design jobs? That part seems sort of silly since the point of your post is that it cost virtually nothing to you.

Now, I wasn't being sarcastic when I said that I'm glad you've satisfactorily solved your problem. Further, I'm glad that everyone you contacted got paid. But that doesn't address the problems which I see, which are that 1) it wasn't a very business or worker friendly (yes, in my opinion) move and 2) I think you could've done better.
We "know" that Nexus 7 / Kindle Fire has a cost of $200.

Subtract $? in assembly profit because Foxconn's role building iPad's is much smaller than ASUS/Quanta's role building Nexus 7/Fire

Subtract $? because Apple receives better component prices than ASUS & Quanta do.

Subtract $? because the iPad mini has a cheaper screen.

Subtract $? because the iPad mini has less RAM.

Subtract $? because the iPad mini has a cheaper CPU.

Add $? because the iPad mini has more flash.

Add $? because the iPad mini has a rear camera.

Add $? because the iPad mini uses Aluminum rather than plastic.

You have to guess which column is bigger, but in my estimation, the "subtract" column is at least $20 larger than the "add" column.
Did you look at the actual data behind this survey? I just did, and it's a little sketchy.

The US ranks alongside the rest of Europe for most of the data sources that include the US (many of TI's data sources do not), except for two surveys which sharply differ:

* TI's own "Bribery Payer's Index", which gives the US a 4.6 out of 10 (a score more compatible with Southeast Asia than North America) in the crosstabs, but for which the actual TI BPI report gives results back in line with Europe.

* IMD's survey from 2010, which gives the US a 6.5 (again, significantly lower than Europe) but for which no actual data appears to be publicly available.

In both cases, the actual data extracted from these surveys (the TI index is a meta-analysis of many surveys; a survey of surveys) is "phone surveys to business leaders"; TI has selected specific questions from these surveys as indicative and discarded the rest of them. In the IMD case, for instance, there appears to be one question at all that's selected from the survey: "Is there bribery or corruption, yes or no".

A 6.5 score from the IMD report puts the US in the 6-7 band along with Estonia, Malaysia, Spain, and Israel. This seems like an extraordinary claim, as is the claim that there is less bribery in Qatar and Chile than in the US.

Similarly, the 4.x score in the BPI survey puts the US in a band with China, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Philippines and Argentina. This is an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence.

If you excluded the BPI and IMD surveys from the data set, the US would probably be duking it out for tenths of a point at the top of the list with the rest of Europe. As it stands, we're simply in the top quintile, unlike China.
That PandoDaily article is pretty aggressive and hysterical.

The message is, more or less: "unlicensed taxi drivers are responsible for 80% of stranger rape, therefore Uber's 'ask forgiveness, not permission' approach to business is wrong"
Yeah, the chart tells the story. I think they had a difficult time picking up traction. They did a kind of pivot recently when they added the ability to stamp books, music, TV, movies, iOS apps, etc. But when I used the app it was confusing and scattered.

I read a blog post by MG Siegler about Stamped a few months ago (http://parislemon.com/post/28144863354/stamped-is-it-worthy), but didn't buy his enthusiasm. Stamped seemed like too difficult of a concept/activity for the masses to understand and too broadly marketed for early adopters to get really excited.
Network effect. The more people on platform X, the more developers on platform X and the more attractive it is to users, and so on.

While this simplistic model suggests a full winner-take-all model, history strongly suggests one often ends up with two markets, the "high cost, lower penetration" & the "low cost, higher penetration". Most recently, Apple OSX vs. Microsoft Windows. But the resulting duopoly can be as impenetrable as the simplistic monopoly to an upstart.
Why Crowdfunding Is The Next Big Thing: Let's Talk Numbers
This was actually a reason for Java's success in the enterprise.

Finally a OO language with proper use of Strings, exceptions, classes and available library, without having to litter your code with #ifdefs to manage portability across compiler vendors and operating systems.

Or reducing yourself to the common subset usually available, which has a bit hard to have across C and C++ compilers around 1996.

Nowadays we know better, but it was surely a reason among many others, for Java's success.

I state this, because I saw it happen live in the trenches back in the day.
Yeah! I've unchecked "Save my card number"
Broadcom Wifi firmware DoS with python proof of concept
Microsoft wants to leverage their desktop dominance to introduce people to their mobile offerings. The change from start menu to start screen fits right into that strategy. However you can get back the start menu by installing classic shell, pokki etc.
Was this before or after drones had become important for the military?
If these guys got hacked, they could very easily harvest your bank and email passwords.

I don't think so, because secure sites will use SSL, and your browser does certificate verification.
Is there some feature of the language or the libraries that I am missing that turns a socket (err, a TCPConn) into a channel that I can read with Golang's select construction? Seriously asking. That would be awesome.
There are literally no requirements to apply to YC, except wanting to be in YC (which implies you want to build something).

Rhodes and Marshall have specific requirements, even your job hire probably had requirements (high-school education, must be able to lift 30 lbs).

That's what makes YC so amazing... anyone, anywhere, can apply.
I get that: My question is how they control the router.
...and screws up my evening by apparently breaking flash. We only warned our clients 4 months ago.
The mere existence of a NewsTweek shows how you should really not have high expectations about traffic going over open wifi.

Do you honestly think changing advertisements is the worst case for a mitm device?
Full Show 10/24/12: The Poverty Party?
Video of a Dancing Beta Distribution
Ha.. nice!
Apple Store Credit can be trivially given to anyone in a pretty large number of countries in the world - something that probably isn't true for cash.
This is bad news for PlayStation fans :( The easier it is for people to pirate games, the more people who will pirate. The more people who pirate games, the less moneys the developers make. This is how studios get shutdown. Sony's closed at least 3 first-party studios just this year.
Well, this Is a comment from a bit too extremist side. Also, speaking of confusing things: springboard.

Anyway, for now I loved everything I've seen of the surface
>>Life sneaks up on you, and people stop having the same phone, email, or street address. You wake up one day wondering what happened to Bob, then slowly realize that you'll never see him again. It's a weird feeling.

Unless you're older, you have no idea how true this is. So many people I knew in college and this happened so frequently once I got out college. I suddenly realized people at that age are so nomadic. They move frequently, change addresses and numbers and unless you're best friends with them, you'll never know what happened to them.

Scary and yes, very weird to have known someone one day and then a few days later, they're a ghost to you.
Sure didn't stop me:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t82lixl5mzhiea/IMAG0746.jpg

Although Jill Stein or Virgil Goode would also be acceptable alternatives to the parade of bozos the status quo puts in front of us.
I am guilty of a few of these myself, with the notable exception of financial stingyness (if anything, I am overly generous to her which could be a bad trait as far as my quality of life is concerned) and failing to look my best (I'm not the most attractive guy in the world, dressing in nice clothes and doing my hair makes me feel good about me.)

To add to this, I think the only way to not ruin a relationship is to listen to the person, often and with honest intentions. People tend to be saying something straight to your face which you have a habit of missing, I know this is my experience, but I've found that since I stopped talking at her and starting talking with her our relationship has improved in leaps and bounds.

Though I suppose like almost anything, you improve with iteration, I hope you take your mistakes and what you have learned and better apply them in your next relationship, thanks for sharing this with us, it made me realise some of my own flaws.

~

Comment: Wow, this flew up to the first page, looks like these flaws must be pretty common, or general enough to seem common, anyway.
I definitely agree!

For most things, I want to know:
1. What are the pieces?
2. Where do they go?
3. How do they interact with eachother?

When implementing payments into a site (which is a core concern for the business/application), I'd like to know each answer in pretty good detail, so I'd be more than happy to pay $15-$40 for an ebook which will hold my hand through the "best practices" to those 3 answers.
Aha well now don't worry, I wasn't going to be confusing with any Kevin Chopsticks ;) I actually mistyped 大橋 to but edited it a split second later– I'm terrible at tabbing through on the mac, iPhone 10-key is much quicker for me...
How To Be Happy: Eat Lots of Fruits and Vegetables
There is a other website that give away $100k worth of tools to new businesses. Its called Debian.

O wait, maybe that's $1000k worth of tools. Or is it $10000k?

(Maybe they should describe what the tools does and not do a "less-than-useful" money comparison)
raising funds != taking a loan

And if you've ever raised funds then yes, it's an accomplishment and cause to celebrate. Just get back to work the next day.
Videogames are at the cheapest they've ever been. In previous generations some games cost as much as $100, and in the cartridge based eras games rarely cost as low as $60 as they do now. And we're talking in 2012 dollars, which are worth much less that 1995 and 2000 dollars.
And the fact that you have to give up more privacy to increase security. I'd rather Facebook not know my phone number (though it's stupid to think they don't already have it due to any one of my friends syncing their contact information).

It's the little things like this that put me off to Facebook. It feels like every attempt to make the site "better" is just another attempt to get more information from a user.
British ExxonMobil oil chief 'assassinated' in Brussels street
Does the license really need the installation itself to be an upgrade? That would be silly, as everyone who has tried knows that a Windows installation upgraded from a previous version is never as snappy as a clean installation. And in that case, reinstalling the OS would require user to install the old Windows first. That wouldn't much make sense, would it?
I was contrasting my feedback with the "this is a horrible thing to do" comments that popped up before mine. But, yeah, point taken.
Because I don't know what sort of bonus addons are included with the pirate edition?
Apple fanboy is an insult only in the tech world. Apple has cultivated a certain image among regular people and that is what he was talking about. Also not everything is about the Google-Apple war. Both of them can exist and be discussed by themselves :)
Hardware makers seem to have come around to this idea. Apple is obviously strong. I think the experience of getting a Kindle in mail that is already set up with your Amazon account is pretty great. I was a fan of the first time experience of the Doxie scanner as well. Simple, informative and cute/stylized.

For software, I was impressed with Ableton live. It would be a very daunting app to learn without built in tutorials and a module in the bottom left of the app that gives a great explanation of anything you roll over. Adobe sucks at this stuff, but they are the industry standard, so people slog through it. 3D modeling software could also benefit from some first timer love.
You can do a fresh install, but only if there's already a licensed version of windows on the hard drive. If you previously replaced the OS, then the upgrade won't let you register until you run a command from the shell and say it's ok.
It is failing because it is looking for python this path /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python. Snow leopard default support is only to 2.6. Either the path should be configurable(I could not find this) or if it supports 2.6 change the path to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python
This site is a usability horror.
"""I feel totally Jazzed!

Drew Wilson, when asked how he’s feeling as he “executes”."""

"Unintentionally funny" is gonna be right on the money.
This should be on https://pingpoll.me/.
The Facebook Demetricator: Living Without Numbers
You don't have to install anything. Click the giant button that says Desktop, and woah, it's like Windows 7 all over again.
I think everyone is getting stuck on the design decision concerning the start menu. Windows 8 is more than just a new start menu. There are a number of other changes that I believe sound very interesting, and are very much PC innovations and changes not made for tablets.
And it gets more interesting:

In 2007, researchers Kurtz and Simon, building on earlier work by J.H. Conway in the 1970s,[8] proved that a natural generalization of the Collatz problem is algorithmically undecidable.[7]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
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I was talking about Windows, actually. I do remember some versions of MS-DOS being marginally better than others, but I don't think it had any predictable cadence.
This site does not load at all with the Ghostery plugin, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what I need to allow to see the content, because it all looks like tracking code.
"... it sells premium products at premium prices, and it never discounts."

Yeah, but the prices of those "products" (=Asian factory-made electronics, smaller form factor and reduced functionality) keep dropping. That is the nature of the computer business. And there's nothing Apple can do to stop it. Eventually we will reach "zero", or very close to it.

Maybe what this journalist is realising is that Apple the company may finally be seeing real competition in the "sexy hardware" space. They have historically been the only company to mass produce computers that "look cool" sitting on a desktop, even when they're turned off. They have never had any real competition in that space (=opinion). But now, as the price point and form factor have been significantly reduced (the price to own an Apple computer used to be a lot higher, I can recall it being over $1000 in the not-so-distant past), other companies might finally also be able to mass produce sexy-looking hardware that can compete.

Assuming that's true, and we're headed for "disposable" computers (i.e. ridiculously cheap), then what's left of Apple's reality distortion field? Maybe it's "Apple, the brand" that the journalist observes.

And what is that brand? Maybe it's partly "easy to use", as he suggests is a known characteristic of Apple products.

So, who can possibly compete with Apple on ease-of-use in a handheld computer? No one?

Hmmm, we'll see about that. Imagine a company that can offer the same simplicity, without greedy control freak attitude and imposing incessant hoop-jumping on its customers. And their computers look cool.
Pronto – little scripts with Web interfaces
From the reviews I've seen Surface has pretty poor performance outside of animations and UI transitions, which shouldn't be too hard to begin with considering its low 1366x768 resolution. I don't think I'd pay $500 for an experience that's effectively worse than a netbook and has only half of the storage that it promises as free for the user. And you also get almost no apps of note, nor many apps that cover any niche you might be interested in.
NoSQL is no Oracle killer
Aerial Panorama from Stratosphere with GoPro
This week's edition of Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2012/10/03/gold-can-...
I'd actually pay for the Facebook team to delete my online life!

REALLY

This needs to be a service...

The problem is that its just like credit reporting: the data can be obfuscated from you - but not from everyone else who wants the data that is a part of "the system".

Facebook is perm - thus I have never had an account and never will.

Users can benefit from having a photo repos and a wall etc... but users suffer from corp and gov data mining of said data. fark that
Every internet troll has a real-life existence too.
CourseKit is now Lore.com
Curiously, the author never gets around to the "why" in the title. Just another restating of the events that unfolded to get things to the state they're in today.
I ran both Vista and Windows 7. As far as I was concerned, in terms of usability they are both pretty much the same as long as you turned indexing off on you Vista drives.
>It isn't just bullshit "who you know rather than what you know".

I dont believe in your assessment.
I suspect they believe only visitors with Windows machines will ever visit their site.