skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two separate goals: improving the speed with which data may be accessed on a tape and improving that speed to the point where it will compete with hard disk drives - or to drive home how important it is to keep these goals distinct, solid state drives.

I'm not saying that future tape technologies will be as fast as the hard drives of the equivalent future - linear access has inherent limitations. However, there are relatively simple ways in which data access could be improved and such improvements (and some tuning) could make tape adequate for some applications.
You can 'snap' a metro app (music, IM) alongside a maximized desktop app. It's great. I've wanted that for some time now.

http://biserkov.com/files/snap.png
I have nothing against Apple fans.

That said, if you own an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 4, an iPod, an iPod Mini, an iPad, and then go and buy an iPad Mini, I am judging you.
Assorted thoughts on the Apple event
You are right that attachments are only hidden and not protected by default. GitLab uses the CarrierWave gem to store attachments and this defaults to a publicly accessible directory. You can configure the behaviour of the attachment in https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/app/models/...
autocorrect on my ipad went with the more pompous version :-P
Not so much the Itanium (which simply nobody cared for) as the P4 dead-end, forcing intel to come back to the P6 architecture (via the Pentium M).

They showed the path to better integration and performances (on-chip memory controller, significantly better interconnect, better multicore integration) as well.

It's just sad how much they lost their way since the Athlon 64, and how Intel's Core just curb-stomped them.
There are rumours that one of the devices to be released on October 29th will include a 3G Nexus 7.
Why don't you guys put some stuff up on your website? Every section is just empty. As an indie game developer using Unity3d (and funnily enough an ex-Zynga employee too) I wouldn't even bother contacting your studio when every section of your site is just empty.
ARM chips are cheap so it's a big business model switch. Not easy to do.
It seems to me that Zynga's biggest mistake was 1) not expecting that social gaming craze to take a dive and 2) not figuring out early enough what to do next when the social gaming craze died down ... those two things are related.

So rather than predicting and pre-empting the dive in social gaming, Zynga is in a tough situation where they're facing the harsh reality as it comes. As a result, they're stuck with a huge, bloated company not prepared to quickly pivot or create innovation in new product categories.

I don't know what else Zynga can do right now but to downsize and to refocus the company on building what's next and not what was. It's almost like they need to find a new product strategy and business model. And it will take a lot of insight, leadership and team to get it done.

What they have going for them is that they have a lot of cash and a lot of experience in the social gaming genre.

But what they have going against them is momentum which includes employees losing faith in the company.
You're missing the bigger issue. Siegler and Arrington have not left their positions at CrunchFund (where they invest in the companies they report on)- the main reason they left in the first place. Such journalistic conflicts of interest are not ethical or accepted within the Journalism/Tech industry.

AOL has simply waited for the uproar to die down to restate Arrington/Siegler... insulting, frankly.
I don't see Apple switching to AMD, the performances and efficiency just aren't there.
I'm quite skeptical of just about every offer to login with Facebook, or install an 'app' within the site, whether it's Apple, Etsy or some other dishonest corporation. Just about everyone wants mainly to gather your information for some other purpose.

Unfortunately, as usual your average user thinks nothing of clicking through the permissions page on FB without reading or understanding what it says.
The original contract for Moby Dick
Order a ticket plus companion ticket to London for every other day of the month. Sell the companion ticket on craigslist for $200 and ferry people you've never met to Europe.
It's kind of confusing because technically GlobalFoundries is separate from AMD. So if Apple wanted to manufacture their own custom ARM chip, would they be talking to GF, AMD, or both?

I also wonder what role AMD proper (as opposed to GF) will have in some kind of theoretical future world where ARM provides all the chip designs. Wasn't architecture sort of their main thing previously? I know a lot of companies add their own little things on to the base ARM designs, but it still seems like AMD will have to scale back their design team considerably in such a scenario.
Something I've considered doing is creating a truecrypt volume and somehow sticking all of my pre-shared keys and stored credentials in there, for SSH keys , wifi keys , lastpass & dropbox credentials etc.

So I can mount the volume and be logged automatically into everything then dismount when I'm done.

It's just the pain of rounding all of the various files up.
who is talking about raising capital? is raising equity capital a measure of a success? i'd say the contrary. equity is the most expensive source of financing. i've raised equity, and trust me, it's a mixed feeling.
Yes, but it's horribly ugly visually. I just can't do that to myself.
> Oh, and it's an iOS device so you can actually use it for something

[citation needed]
I bought a Nexus 7 for dev purposes, and I also use it more now than my iPad (3rd gen), mostly due to the size. It's a lot easier to hold for long periods of time.

But truthfully, all the Nexus 7 really did was make me want an iPad mini, because the device itself is very frustrating. Reading a PDF? Half the screen is a garbly mess since only one page gets rendered nicely. Drives me nuts.

Even Chrome (which runs plenty fast) has a terrible time recognizing taps on links. I find myself tapping, and tapping, and tapping, and finally, it does something.

I'm ordering an iPad mini for personal usage, and expect it to sell crazy numbers of units, if my experience is at all typical. The size difference is so important that for a month now I've put up with crappy UX even as my larger iPad was in arm's reach.

Also, every iPad I've bought has had cellular; I'm surprised Google doesn't offer that for extra $$$ on the Nexus 7. The only place I do use my iPad now is in the car, and the iPad mini (with LTE) will replace both devices.
>> In all, I can see 41 app tiles without scrolling, both large and small, all of them are easily identifiable and relatively easy to reach.

In practice, I find seeing so much quite overwhelming. Is seeing 41 app tiles - many animated - actually a good thing? My ability to scan and make sense of the Start Screen is quite low. I find it grades on my senses as time passes and every visit to the Start Screen becomes less and less pleasant.

And regarding scrolling, on the desktop are we not used to vertical scrolling? I find it odd when my vertical scroll wheel action results in a horizontal scroll. It's harder to scan while scrolling.

Lastly, regarding have to "dexterously following a series of menus" using a mouse - is it really that hard? Did the MS research say users are unable to use a mouse effectively? I assumed the tiles are huge because a finger is much larger than a mouse pointer, and the Start Screen UI is designed as a touch-first experience.
Because Microsoft wasn't trying to build a Tablet OS. They were trying to build a Desktop and Tablet OS, and a new interface that should (at least theoretically) work on both was to come with it.

Otherwise, why even call it Windows? Why not just call it Windows Tablet?
On the bright side, there may be some good people to be found in the ash pile.
Actually, on Metro that's:

Window Key + "Su" + Click Sublime Text 2 -> Sublime Text 2 is open

EDIT: sukuriant has informed me that actually you can still just press Enter. So it's EXACTLY the same as before!
Do you represent Apple? Why would you be embarrassed by what they do?
I took both the poster I replied to and the poster above his under consideration when I replied. Finance doesn't require all companies be sustainable, only that some companies grow enough to offset losses taken on unsustainable companies.

It is a general principal of how investments work.
It is not. Section 1201 of the DMCA specifiys:
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

There is an exception to users whose ability to make legal use of the protected material is impeded, but only after the Librarian of Congress rules that the given type of user of the given type of work qualifies for the above exception.

The exception mentioned above also, explicitly, does not apply to the following provision:
"No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
`(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
`(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
`(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c105:1:./temp/~c105hq5...:
It's an obvious measurable performance indicator that shouldn't get worse without a very good explanation, and when it gets significantly better, indicates that the developers are capable of optimizing something. Often times, boot time improvements can be partially due to optimizations that help during ordinary use as well.
I know you say that because of this other utterly stupid cultural battle, but the use of “theory” in that article is largely correct. It would certainly not be correct to call their theory an hypothesis.

Theories can be wimpy or really strong, can be good or bad. They are the connective tissue you use to try and explain certain phenomena. From these explanations arise predictions that help you formulate hypothesis. You then try to falsify those hypothesis and if you fail your theory is strengthened (and if you succeed your theory is wrong and at the very least has to be modified or thrown out altogether).

A hypothesis is not a theory in waiting. You make a similar mistake as Creationists do when they call Evolution “just a theory”.
What i mean is a 44pt button should be the same physical size on an iPad mini and an iPhone 3gs. Nobody had trouble touching buttons on the 3gs
Microsoft Touch and Type cover - cover that becomes keyboard
Proprietary, as in proprietor, as in owner of property, as in someone with property rights, as in government-granted monopolies, as in patents.

In fact in some contexts, proprietary is a synonym for patent e.g. patent medicine.

edit: from wiktionary, definition 3

Manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights (IPR), as with a patent or trade secret.
Does it? They still haven't answered my request from at least a year ago (they do offer some partial data download that includes a bit more stuff than previously, but it's essentially just the stuff on your profile -- none of the interesting stuff they collect on you).
I also like using http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

Which I think is Flash/Flash Air...

Being able to permalink (which Rubular also does) to examples is a killer feature..I keep trying to convince non-programmers who work with data that they should at least learn regexes to make their life easier
Yes but we all know the ad revenue model increasingly delivers low average customer lifetime value. The ad model is the default strategy for people who latch on to Graham's contention "it's easier to make something popular than to make money from something popular".

I think it's easier to make money from something popular that fills a massive maslow-style need. IMHO
It's both. WinRT is an ABI as well as a set of tools. The WinRT API can be implemented as wrappers around Win32 APIs (as would make sense for functionality in the WinRT surface area that mirrored applicable functionality in the Win32 surface area) or new code (as would make sense for new functionality).
Difference is that you are not even supposed to use metro on your workstation and that you still have the best window manager on the market alongside metro.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Gnome 3 or Unity. They seriously believe that you'd want that for everything.
Yeah, Webmasters is reaally slow to update. Thankfully they offered a way to delete old pages. If they come back though, then it should show the source of the link.
Besides the reference made by "wiredfool" about ssh-agent further down (which remembers the decrypted keys once you've entered the corresponding password so that other ssh sessions can use them without bothering you again, and: this connection can also be forwarded through consecutive ssh-sessions!)...

- You can mitigate the danger arising from unencrypted ssh-keys laying around by either generating special-purpose users for a certain task, or...

- you can set restrictions on what a certain ssh-key is allowed on the target host. This is described in the sshd(8) manual page, section "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT".

Of course the other remedy against having to type passwords repeatedly is to use the pretty "ControlMaster" feature: The 2nd and following ssh-session re-uses the already authenticated channel of the first ssh connection. (ssh_config(5) manual page, section on ControlMaster).
Facebook quarterly reports: $0.12 earnings per share
I'm not sure whose point that was. As is typical, the point is to get tape performance to the point where it is an alternative to HDD. As the article mentions, power consumption may be a viable consideration and at some point it may offset an idealized version of access speed.

When the data set is so large that maintaining it all online at once is impractical and the nature of the data makes continuous and immediate access unnecessary, then tape may solve the problem.
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>reboot to clear it out

That's what the reboot option is for. Can you explain the problem again?
Why aren't developers motivated to do that? Hardware control.

Look at the top-selling Android tablets. Every single one has a different screen resolution/pixel density; Nexus 7 has 1280x800 (216 ppi), Kindle Fire HD has 1024x600 (169 ppi), Nook HD has 1440x900 (243 ppi), Galaxy Tab 7.7 has 1280x800 (197 ppi), etc.

It's an absolute nightmare for developers, and this is just tablets. The Android smartphone market is even more fragmented, and there is just as much variation in display specifications.

Hardware control has everything to do with it.
A/B Testing in Ruby On Rails
A. A person thinks a product is underwhelming.
B. That same product sells very well.

A and B do not contradict. B does not invalidate A.
Replying to the your first point, 'getting familiar with the mobile interface':

How? Seriously?

I'm using both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (same .. thing, for this comparison) and I fail to see what you mean.

In Windows 7 I did these steps to launch an application:

- Press 'Windows' (Super, whatever) button

- Type application name

- Enter

In Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 I need these steps:

- Press 'Windows' (Super, whatever) button

- Type application name

- Enter

Yeah, the UI is different while I type. But it's on the same level as moving from Launchy on Windows XP to just using the start menu in Windows 7: The interface is really just presentation and not that relevant.

Metro isn't good for anything else, for all I can tell. There's no bait. It's .. useless. First thing to do is Windows/Super+D to get to the desktop. There you need Windows/Super for the 'launcher', Windows/Super + w for a launcher for the control panel/settings apps and Windows/Super + x (neat shortcuts, thing lean start menu) and Windows/Super + i (uhm.. For .. shutdown? That's what I use that for).

So as a user of two 'metro' platforms I disagree heavily with your opinion. I don't think that this is happening, I don't think that this could happen and I really, really doubt that someone placed a bet on this, coming from their mobile platform.
I love the way they've laid out the review itself. The bold blocks of flat colour look very Metro-y.
Any idea what kind of severance package the developers received?
They make crappy games and people criticize them for the crappiness, not the game part.
Awesome new free fonts for your next design project
Any idea why IBM still sells servers and mainframes? Is it because the hardware is a nice tie-in to the services they sell?
"If anything a good catch is someone who you want to be with despite the fact they don't score well on your list of requirements."

Right on. I read about a social experiment (I think it was "Blink" or similar book) where before going on speed dating sessions people filled out a questionnaire prioritizing the requirements that they wanted in their ideal mate. After speed dating they ranked their dates and itemized their features.

It turns out that there was no correlation between what the subjects wanted or thought they want a priori and the features of the people they liked the most. When asked about this they just rationalized matching the contradictory data (they adjusted the people they liked to the old values or adapted the values to the people they liked, don't remember).
An Inmate's Answers on Quora
Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to know, my apologies for missing 'cinder' in the article. (Though in my very meager defense, page up/page down is broken on the blog because the top framing hides content.)
Rubular is great. The only thing preventing it from being a 'one stop shop' for learning regular expressions is that it omits describing in the notes below some functionality (eg. the "?<"..">" shown in the example). http://rubyxp.com/ is better for these descriptions.
A recent pre-print paper suggests that a few mistakes in Widom-Larsen's calculations lead to overestimating the amount of energy that can be produced:

A correct calculation gives a neutron production rate from (1) about
300 times smaller than what estimated in [1–3], for the value of the
mass renormalization factor β ≈ 20 considered there. In turn, it is
questionable that values of β can be realized, in particular for
bound electrons, so large as to give rise to useful nuclear
transmutation rates. A more detailed analysis of the attainable
values of β is needed to obtain more deﬁnite conclusions on this
interesting phenomenon, should it exist at all.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6501 quote is from the "Conclusions" section
UN calls to expand Internet surveillance
Regulations differ across different industries and most have an industry association that you can become a part of to do research. Manufacturing is very old-hat in North America.

Truly rapid prototyping is bringing costs down, like a great dev framework cuts dev time down.

There are many possible paths to succeeding in manufacturing, one size does not fit all. It largely depends on A) what you're trying to build; and B) who you're going to sell it to.

For example, if you're going to sell to consumers you're most likely going to have to come up with capital to cover your manufacturing costs before you have a single unit sold.

If you're selling to businesses you might be able to get a Letter of Intent or a Letter of Credit and then get a bridge loan to cover the costs. If I were building a manufacturing company, this is probably the route I would take.

Like software though, you need the right people. Good mechanical engineers are as rare as good software engineers and the programs they use in their craft are far more expensive (SolidWorks, etc.). You'll also probably need an Electrical Engineer. It's kind of like the difference between front-end/back-end devs.
If you reply with one-word dismissals, you are going to get ignored (which is really what a downvote means).

The fact is, Microsoft hasn't given a real good reason why Metro should exist on the desktop.

Examples:

Some would say, for example, that Google's Chrome browser is evil because Google wants to monopolize the internet -- but Chrome is a very good browser, it's opinionated, but a successful product, so people can safely ignore concerns about Google's incursion into the browser space.

Another good example is Apple's iMessage which makes texts free for iPhone users to each other. Again, by offering cost savings to the end user, Apple bolsters iPhone appeal in ways that greatly offset whatever it costs them to get mobile operators like AT&T to provide this feature (I'm sure it's not free to Apple). Some would argue that this preferential pricing is unfair to smaller handset manufacturers like LG or HTC as it would be impossible for say, free texts from Android to Android and HTC to HTC is too small for anyone to care.

If you're so pro-Metro here, you need to explain what advantages it provides to the end user. Right now, it's looks like a giant roadblock to your average desktop user.
This is a "How long is a piece of string" sort of question. Want just rough SWAG numbers?

Lead to trial: 5% (high touch sales, high integration costs for trial) through 20% (self serve trial)

Trial to customer: 1~2% (online self serve SaaS), 30~50% (online self-serve SaaS with CC captured upfront), 80%+ (high touch, high integration coats, good sales team aggressively working new accounts)

Dormant customers: Very dependent on users and business practices of company. At AR it is about 15% or so. It would be higher but I sweep accounts once a year and self-terminate anyone I can't get in touch with.
Gartner Identifies the Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2013
Yeah, and we saw how well that worked yesterday...
IIRC, some people were selling their free companion ticket--you could make pretty decent money flying someone along with you whenever you flew. And that was definitely prohibited in the original agreement.
There are a number of solutions that do that kind of thing to a degree - and they are improving. For certain types of designs, you can actually compile fairly unrestricted C and C++ into gates that are faster and lower gate-count than hand-coded Verilog designs. Your friend's domain might well be one of them.

I think you need some specialized knowledge to use this existing generation of tools, but having never used such tools, I couldn't quantify that.

I'm also not sure how well these tools perform on arbitrary hardware designs.

But no - I certainly don't think he's out to lunch.
Notes from “Father of the internet” Vint Cerf’s talk at Google LA Office
- Yes, run it locally. (Sometimes I want to test against sensitive information)

- Learn how a regex editor is built.

- Use a different regex engine (is that possible to swap)? [1]

I'm sure there are more reasons.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expressio...