skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article to be overly simplistic in its explanations, here's the relevant paper if that helps (although it's still fairly impenetrable, but it does have more details): http://www.springerlink.com/content/77127077754p1788/fulltex...

Note that ultimately it still comes down to low-energy fusion, in this case it's the fusion of two neutrons and Li-6 into Beryllium-8 which then decays into He-4 nuclei. This is somewhat similar to the CNO cycle whereby you keep adding protons to C-12 and the subsequent products until ultimately you end up with C-12 again plus a He-4 nuclei, and a lot of fusion energy along the way.

Fortunately there are several clear-cut experiments that can be conducted to verify each element of this theory, so we should see some progress on this (one way or the other) in the coming years.
Thanks for pointing that out. It shows Apples focus on the user to consider something that would be easy to over look.
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Arduino won't get you mechanical energy transfer like a gearbox will. Some mechanical engineering education will need to be had.
On a slight tangent - does anyone else see Google pushing the Chrome OS onto the tablets?

It seems like the Chrome OS is geared towards media consumption and productivity, while Android is kind of the "low cost open source" solution.
I actually just posted (before I saw this thread) about how to roll your own online storage using a BRIC (Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds). By striping data across different clouds, you spread the risk of any one storage provider letting you down.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4689238
You're aware that development for varying hardware specs is inherently supported by Android, right? It isn't like iOS where you assume 1024x768 at either 1.0 or 2.0 pixel densities. Android, at its core, assumes varying device metrics, and layouts and development practices reflect that.

I don't really think hardware control is the issue here.
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From typical cellphone-size where the on-screen keyboard is impractically small, to a standard iPad where the keyboard is ok if you're used to it but the device is not exactly compact, I'm looking for the smallest device that'll reliably do the job. I have not tried 7" tablets, phablets, nor obviously the iPad mini. What works for you in a situation where chats can get pretty verbose yet as engineers we aren't exactly longing for voice and certainly not video conferencing :) ?
Upon reading your comment I went to look up Amazon royalty information. Let me know if I got this right.

A book that is 3-10 dollars, sold in the first world, gets you 70% royalties minus a few cents for delivery. If you want to set a price over $10, then you only get 35% royalties.

So it's not that Amazon flat-out gives much lower royalties, it's that they give much lower royalties for books that cost more than ten dollars. They don't want to give you more than seven dollars per sale.
> Top bar is all Apple.

Not sure what you mean by "top bar", but there's a Windows 8 Review above the fold.

Also, remember that the Zynga story is "From Polygon" (Polygon is The Verge's sister gaming site), so it wouldn't be at the top regardless.
Enter still works
>>Because Apple's mentioning their product in the same breath as iPad. It strongly argues that Apple is financially/strategically concerned enough with that form factor to risk mentioning the existence of competition.

I don't know if this is necessarily the right conclusion.
> Second the turnaround time for a prototype was at least two weeks. If you made a small mistake you'd find out two weeks later when your prototype arrived.

[Cue Four Yorkshiremen]

Try an fabless IC company: 8-10 week turn times on fabrication, each run was 6 digits $.
Click targets work out the same size as an iPhone (iPad was always a bit bigger), so no, this is no big deal.
Ah, sorry, didn't have Windows 8 to hand, that was from memory. So it's the same sequence of commands!
Could you please explain the tenancy/virtual servers mechanic of your service? The copy on the website isn't clear. (Also, OH GOD that font. OH. GOD.)

It's not clear to me whether I'm getting my own server (effectively dedicated?) for $136/month or not.

Further, what if I don't want multiple-tenants on the hardware? What does it cost me to effectively treat each physical server a single logical unit? Is that even possible?

I mostly want a more elastic alternative to dedicated servers. Is your service along those lines?
In the end patents will expire. 15 years left.
My grandfather was an aeronautical engineer who spent most of his career at one company - he joined early enough that he was friendly with the founder. That didn't stop them from laying him off right before he would have been able to collect his pension. (They did this with their other older engineers as well). This was around the end of the cold war when that whole sector was shrinking.

Say what you will about unions, but they do exist for a reason.
Not hating on all the people in tech media. I'm hating on two specific people in tech media. Two people who, in my experience reading their material, are biased and their opinions shouldn't hold as much weight as they do.

Do you really think that it is okay that they are allowed to be in journalism in an area where they both have financial stake in companies they report on?
So I've only ever had the keyboard version and was wondering about the page turn buttons. Are they gone in paper-white? Do I have to reach across with a second hand and swipe to turn the page? Because if that's the case I won't be getting one.

Part of the good thing about the kindle is that I can just hold it still and keep reading, especially useful in bed.
I want this for sed / grep with optional shell interpolation
> Personally I don't understand this concept of forcing [...] on people and having change just for the sake of change

Welcome to development, where anything over 24 months is old news and needs to be made different. Not better, just different.

It's kind of a plague in the industry. Things change just for the sake of it. I'm all for changing to make things better, but a large sect of development seems obsessed with new just because... new.
What does that have to do with it?

Adding more quality submissions or comments wouldn't have prevented this submission from being upvoted.
You mean an "Apple-ause" light. ;)
Cool - Tesseract was what I came across last week while working on one of my own projects. It's the only one I know of right now, and it's nice to hear someone confirm it.
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Funny how it's only 1.9 square centimeters larger than the iPhone 5, and I'm guessing it lacks a call feature. Who does phone calls nowadays anyway right? And this old iPod Touch is incredibly obsolete now anyway, nobody uses that anymore.
Not if they weren't associated with me or my identity in some way.
I've been using gitlab for a while, and so far I like it. It has a few weaknesses here and there for sure, and the UI has some wonky aspects, but overall it works quite well.
Done, fixed. Opera does not seem to support backface-visibility, so, we do not flip it now in Opera, but we do for other browsers.
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A typical x86 desktop machine will draw between 300-500 watts.

With a beefy GPU, perhaps. The new i3 3220T CPU is only 30W MAX TDP, flat out - a typical (ie. non-gamer) rig is looking more like 150W max, and a lot less idle (20W should be possible). Not 5W, but nowhere near 500W.
The article you posted highlights a peculiarity of the Australian racism debate - most of it is countering the idea that there is no racism in Australia, which is nonsense. There is racism here, just as there is racism everywhere. And it's got nothing to do with social spending - the US harbours quite a lot of racism (much more openly than in Aus) and it hates social spending. Australians are so sensitive about the race issue that most will either say there is no racism or that we're the worst in the world, but the truth is that we have problems, but aren't that bad if you actually start comparing to other countries. We certainly have nothing like France's actual laws on books that single out muslims.

But back to the meat of the question, you said this: Australia is the token example of what I said above- the bill for its social system is footed by immigrants. How are the immigrants footing the bill? From what you've said above, they're draining the system, not funding it ('causing problems')

Also, on the while still harbouring this kind of resentment bit -
There is not a country in the world that doesn't have a racism problem nor a population segment that resents foreigners.
Any developer with half a brain should know that the game industry should be avoided like the plague. Long working hours, abusive management, racism (the Kixeye debacle), the issues just go on and on.

Take patio11's advice and go into B2B, you'll make money hand over fist with much more manageable working hours.
Also on MacBook Pro page: "The highest-resolution notebook ever. Also the second-highest".
Excellent resource, thanks!

Sadly there actually aren't as many of these kinds of digital archives in tech publishing as you might think (even including paywalled ones), partly because research is so driven by recent results. Any philosophy student can get online copies of 100-year-old philosophy articles from JSTOR, but as an AI researcher with an interest in the history of my field, I find myself having to request physical copies of paper journals. Large amounts of pre-1980s stuff has just never been digitized, so it languishes on paper, in archival storage at university libraries.
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Important distinction is that in casinos players can make money. Well, as we know, only a small percentage does and overall it is the house that always wins, but humans are very bad at judging laws of probability. This "flaw" is still not in Zynga's games, and since FB prevents gambling with real rewards it will continue to be so.

Your last sentence will probably hold true, unless they start producing something innovative and useful for a change..
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Exactly, that was the point. Miners need unions more because it's easier for them to be exploited. They probably need legal protections because they aren't coming from positions with many valid choices.

On the other hand, tech workers aren't in a commonly harmful, let-alone fatal, profession and we enjoy pretty good mobility. We don't need unions half as much as we need to take a principled stand and vote with our feet.
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At least for existing apps, they've scaled down the effective, physical size of all elements. I'm very interested in how screen text and existing iPad apps look. I'm sure they've done some testing but the readability aspect concerns me a bit.

I'm also wondering if they've made any iPad mini specific changes to OS elements to enhance the usability - namely if there's been any changes to touch targets
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>the best window manager on the market alongside metro

I'm sorry, but are you kidding me?
The problem with AMD making ARM chips is that they would be cannibalizing their own market.

Their best move would probably be to license the ARM platform and use their chip designers to make custom chips (like Apple and Qualcomm have), but I don't think this is realistic. Also, I'm not sure whether any of their GPU technology is low-power enough to be useful in ARM designs.
Hey Zynga people, we're based in Austin and hiring for front-end. And our culture is pretty much the anti-Zynga: bootstrapped, slow growth, sane hours, no deadlines, strong design focus, and respect for our team and our customers.

Let's get coffee at the downtown Medici: http://www.paperlesspipeline.com/jobs
Apple vs Google is the tablets akin to Microsoft vs Apple.

For me what it comes down to in the end is the same, which is easier to hand off to a relative and not worry about.

Answer : the iPad.

I provided many family members with PCs over the years all the while using Apple products. Why? Because I knew they could just pop into a local store and buy software for it. Because I knew Windows was common and they most likely had it at work. Because I knew if their machine had an issue either I could solve it quickly or Dell's support would. Heck Dell even sent someone to my parents house to fix the unit!

Well something similar is happening here. I know if I give them an iPad they won't be lacking for software. It is a packaged experience with a dearth of support.

So, yeah they cost a bit more upfront, but for me the lack of having to "fix" something is worth the premium. It also means they know what it is and understand the intrinsic value. If I hand them a Google Nexus the first questions will be to compare it to an iPad... and well, why bother.
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. My mom used to play some tropical island game. She told me that she loved hearing the waves crash as she "landed on her island". For her, that game was every bit as entertaining as Borderlands 2 is for some hardcore console gamer.
I've actually never seen a Apple product introduction video "live", and rarely see their ads (so maybe I haven't built up the allergic reaction to their language yet).

Superlatives are annoying, yes, but at least in the passage I quoted, I appreciate the word play and efficiency of the phrasing.
I would argue that money rewards can be equal to in-game rewards, since Zynga players are obviously willing to part money for the latter, but that boils down to a matter of opinion.

It will be interesting to see if management bails from Zynga over the coming quarters. Personally, I would watch and see if management unloads on any stock or options.
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I was disappointed in PDFs at first too; install an alternate app, they don't have the same issue.
Great comment, I share a lot from your viewpoint.

The thing that bothers me most, though, is how bad Brazil's government is at enforcing its law. We're kind of OK at legislating (even though our constitution remain mostly unchanged since '88), but suck at enforcing. That's one reason why there's still a lot of corruption going on in higher spheres.
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One thing that I like about Widom-Larsen theory is that it attempts to reason about possible quantum effects that could cause different sorts of reactions then fusion. While I was a tike back when Pons and Fleischmann were doing their experiments, I always thought the fusion explanation was bunk.

Extremely low energy neutrons created through quantum interactions makes a lot more sense then something majickally defeating the coulomb barrier with regularity (sure there are tunneling effects, but those don't happen with regularity.) While this area of physics is full of some quacks (Rossi for instance), I am glad this is starting to get more attention over the last few years. There is so much that happens as a result of quantum physics that is just counter intuitive, and really so much is left to understand about how the realm of the small effects our macro level reality. I really wish Feynman would have been alive when the first cold fusion craze was announced, perhaps he could have had clues to offer that made people think twice about possible quantum effects instead of the obvious craziness of fusion.
"It's going to suck the oxygen out of the $300-$500 price range for anything with a screen."

Which is very clever, they know their competitors are going for price, but now they've forced them to commit to seriously low margins. Always helpful to keep your competition struggling to make meaningful profit.
Actually there is one other interesting project that has some high profile users and can be used as self hosted bitbucket/github:

http://rhodecode.org/

It supports both hg and git, adn while the ui could look better - its very functional and can do a lot.
My start menu has 2 live tiles, 3 if you count the store (it has a little number in the corner for how many apps have updates). I haven't tried with lots of live tiles; and I could see where having too much random activity on the screen could be a bad thing (unless you had them centralized or something; but I haven't tested this use case, so I have no idea).

That said, in my experience, I've only been confused/disoriented/had my senses degraded from looking at too much data when all the tiles are unorganized. If you have a single, giant group with 40 or 50 or who knows how many tiles, and they're all random, that would be, to me, a very confusing scenario. Indeed, if all the tiles I have on my start screen were all in the same group, I'd be confused; but, with groups, they're very easy to distinguish and differentiate. Again, it's like having many many icons on your desktop; or, having icons on your desktop grouped into clusters.

Scrolling. My start screen I try not to scroll. I personally feel that if you're scrolling on your start screen, you're taking too much space and you should tone down the number of quick-access apps you have -- you probably don't use all of them with regularity. That's my personal, private opinion. I am not on the team that worked on the Windows 8 user interface, so I have no idea. That said, I don't know why we're doing horizontal scrolling versus vertical scrolling and anything I said here would be pure speculation. In a column-friendly format, like the start screen, it's not that disorienting, though, because information naturally becomes columns versus rows. That could have been a design feature that came from the horizontal scrolling, I certainly don't know.

As far as the "Dexterously follow a series of menus" and the big buttons on the start menu are concerned, I have to put a disclaimer here: I only have as much knowledge on this as has been displayed on the internet from Microsoft, I wasn't a part of that team. BUT, I do have a grandfather; and I can anecdotal-ly remember him trying to maneuver his mouse and occasionally losing it in menus or miss-clicking because his hand would shake. As computer scientists and engineers and computer/modern-tech savvy people, our hands and fingers are more dexterous than others, I imagine, because we use them for these meticulous tasks all day long. For use cases like that, this new, large-button interface would probably be much easier. I have not had a chance to let him test the UI, so I can't say; and as my co-workers often remind me, my needs and wants are, often, not normal to computer users at large, so I could be very off.
Ignoring everyone else? Weird then that they compared it to a Nexus 7 on stage. And that they came out with a 7" tablet after they said they wouldn't when they saw the user appeal of the Kindle and others.
The irony of all this is that just less than 3 years ago Mark Pincus and Zynga was riding high.

Pincus was voted as the CEO of the Year at the Crunchies. He was chosen to be the closer to Startup School, he projected Zynga as a place for people to want to go to there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041758

This is a story parallel to Lance Armstrong's own rise and fall. About how if you were to drill down, really drill down, to find the next ethical, justifiable company that used Facebook to great benefit for humanity you're going to be looking for the 27th, 28th, 29th place organizations. Because frankly, as cynical and as well-duh it is now, what did we spend the greatest of our generations will and brain power on?

A Facebook ponzi scheme.

Now the tide is turning, pendulum swung, omega alpha etc etc and all those wonderful metaphors.

Where to go now? Go fixate on and fix something else. But remember, be nice to everyone on your way up. They're going to be the same people you see on the way down.
How about a FAQ?

"It looks and behaves like a traditional SQL database from the outside but under the covers it's a revolutionary database solution."

Doesn't tell me a whole lot. Please explain what is revolutionary about it.
they will use gstreamer (which won't rule ouy libavcodec).
Correct! I think I would have died if I couldn't still do my favorite win7 practices of "start, type, enter" for EVERYTHING. Ctrl + Shift + enter also works for running the program as an admin :)
It's not much more than a webapp wrapper around Ruby's built-in regex functionality.
I wish manufacturer would just stop using diagonals as a measure of screen size and just write the display area. Diagonals are a terrible way to describe screen size.
It's a stretch of terminology to call neutron capture "fusion". This would make all (non-spontaneous) fission "fusion" too. Neutron capture is trivial to accomplish; there's no Coulomb barrier, as neutrons are uncharged. What's nontrivial, and an extraordinary-claim-demanding-extraordinary-evidence, is the production of free neutrons.

They don't have extraordinary evidence, or any evidence. Apparently I'm supposed be enthused about this future experiment, the outcome of which could be extraordinary, although there's no particular prior expectation for this.
Because sometimes you want different operating systems for different purposes? Presumably you don't want a phone OS running on your website servers, and you don't want a server-optimized version of linux running on your phone.

My phone is supposed to be good at calling, texting, and browsing the web on the go. That's a much different purpose than my laptop, which is meant for coding, etc. So doesn't it make sense for them to have different operating systems?
So if he's not allowed to talk about something (among which his investments) on TechCrunch he'll talk about it anyway on Uncrunched? Cool story, bro. I see it as a win-win. For him http://cl.ly/KN0U
It's also noteworthy that startups who can overcome these barriers have not only the advantage over other startups, but also the incumbents who are clunkier and less agile. sweetspot
https://github.com/stonean/slim#benchmarks

Slim is mentioned in the writeup. It's faster than Haml. I like it better.
The difference I think is that in a sandbox game doing a handful of things every eight hours or so can feel fairly satisfying but in an adventure game there's a sort of story and you're interrupting it after you're just getting started.
I'm in Comp Eng. at the University of Ottawa right now, and I'm having a hell of a time getting any hands on experience with FPGAs or board-level design. I worked for one company on Co-op which was good enough to let me try to layout a simple board, but I'd simply never seen the best practices at work, and nobody really had the time to teach. I found VHDL really interesting, but I've only had about two classes worth, and I haven't really has a hobby project. I've though about picking up an Altera dev board and emulating an old computer architecture; is that the kind of practice you think would be worthwhile? Do you have any tips about learning board design and what kinds of projects/hardware are good to get started on?
I'm pretty good at being wrong. :) What do you think?
There's a natural tendency in English to use as nouns words that were originally verbs. Examples: I'm going for a walk. I'm having a talk with someone.

Dictionary definition or not, a google search for the phrase "a schlep" returns >60,000 results.
You can just tap the screen to turn the page on a touchscreen Kindle. Very easy to do with your thumb.
I was pretty comfortable with 4'3 inch android phone (xperia S to be precise), you could also get android phone with physical keyboard.