skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this lengthy reply. I'll try to keep mine short and that means skipping over a bunch of stuff.

First, re "whilst exchanges and bindings survive the loss of individual nodes, queues and their messages do not" -- this needs to be clarified. When queues are replicated, their messages do survive, in order, in the replica. The queue itself may die but the client can get back into context by finding another node in the group. This is observationally similar to DHTs.

Second, "a single logical broker" and "sounds an awful lot like a single element in the system that is responsible for message traffic".... NOOOOOO the point of 'logical' is the opposite of what you say!

Finally the BIG difference between DHTs and something like Rabbit is that in a DHT each datum is replicated around the ring N times, non-uniformly. Whereas in a system like Rabbit each datum is replicated N times in a uniform manner, such that ordered pairs of messages A and B will exist in every queue which has either A or B.
What the heck? No, you just send your CAD files to Sunstone or Advanced Circuits and wait a few days.

PCB fabrication is the easiest part of shipping hardware.
Ask HN:How are you Managing Req'ts
I'm curious as to how you're managing requirements? Are you using them at all? Are you using something like Excel, do you have a "process". Just wanted to start a discussion on Req'ts.
Is anyone else unable to access the article? I'm getting 404s - although this exact url is linked from the front page. It's techcrunch, so this must be a sign of interesting politic.
>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.

I'm not sure how anyone could consider that FUD. There is pretty much no other justification for this metro/desktop mashup possible. I've never even heard pro-ms bloggers talk about one. Why else would they do away completely with the start menu for desktop use and force the start screen? It's certainly not a superior experience for desktop use. Additionally, you didn't provide an argument to support your "FUD" assertion.
I feel the same, and was excited when the Nexus 7 was released.

But no LTE on a portable device is just ridiculous. I'm going to jump on the iPad mini as soon as it releases.

I'm not sure how representative of any market I am, but Google could have had me as a customer from day 1 if they had had LTE on the Nexus; instead, I'll be giving more money to Apple.
Not a nitpick, beacuse the cost to enter the data by the user is also not zero (thus supply is not infite either). These are subtle but not trivial things to keep in mind, when dealling with massive scale (A billion users, ect.)
If you don't want downvotes then don't just reply by quoting the parent and writing "FUD".
The Details Behind Firefox 16 Security Recall
> "The poor specs lead to a poor UX, so I fail to see the difference."

The inverse is not true. See the early reviews of the Kindle Fire HD, where the device is described as sluggish and laggy despite having better specs than the Nexus 7.

So the fact that something has faster hardware does not mean the one has a UX advantage over the other.
Point is, EULA can't even restrict you for civil cases if it contradicts your rights. But that can vary from country to country.
This is from 2011 and hugely outdated. As far as I'm aware, the newer Topaz Kindle format hasn't been cracked and thus the DRM cannot be stripped. It's been a long time since I've bought a book that wasn't Topaz-imprisoned.
Is there a performance benefit to running metro apps over desktop apps?

The security comes from the sandboxing model rather than the UI.
It's really annoying that the only way to get LTE in Germany on these things (and an iPhone5) is through the shittiest carrier ever.

Why is it so hard to build an iPad or iPhone that speaks LTE on 800MHz?
KDevelop 4.4 Released
Very interesting information. Definitely going to have a look at a few gems after this. Thanks for sharing.

On a side note, HAML is the best example of technology for technologies sake. It adds a small amount of value while adding the complexity of a new language. I've never felt the "juice was worth the squeeze" so to speak. Curious as to why it has the following that it does.
Almost as bad as the "Engineered for...whatever" line in the Veloster commercial.
It's entirely possible to build a rocket that doesn't need help from gravity assists, but rocket fuel is very expensive to send to the outer planets. Better to roll downhill towards Jupiter rather than uphill away from the sun.

There are other fun things that we can do with gravity assists as well:

A rocket burn is significantly more effective when close to a large gravitational source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect

If you are willing to wait long enough there is a way to get almost anywhere in the solar system for very little fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...
Cool, the slide deck was interesting. I saved your links.

The Samsung thing sounds like it could just choose a likely significant event and make it into a story. it could be extremely lame and unworthy of a patent. it could be entirely as combat move against apple.
I agree with this article, I don't even consider buying AMD-equipped machines these days whereas in the past I always bought AMD.
I love my Kindle, but it's almost impossible to read PDFs on.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I'd never use this product but I'm sure it will do great.

I've been really critical of Apple lately, but I can't find any reason to get upset over this announcement. I find it funny how people are railing against this announcement just because its not useful to them. There are a million different needs and uses out there for different people.
And in this case, not even "good."
Indeed. Phoronix survives only because Michael Larabel is basically the only person willing to sift through the graphics mailing lists and provide summaries. The writing is always atrocious and Larabel frequently makes serious mistakes in his reporting. Every time there's a benchmark the forum is filled with the same complaints; VSync, testing games that use different GL versions between drivers, etc.

Michael has dedication but not much else. If someone was interested, there is some real low-hanging fruit in that niche.
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Being generous, this is slightly above despicable behavior. Both Arrington and Siegler left TC because of their involvement in the CrunchFund and the obvious conflicts of interest that arise when you report on companies you invest in. Neither of them have abandoned any duties at CrunchFund.

AOL and TC have blatantly tried to mislead the public by initially dismissing them and then rehiring them after the hoopla has toned down. Furthermore, the only lip service they give to this possible conflict of interests is a pandering platitude designed to shove the issue under the rug. And I guess if you complain you aren't smart enough to tell the difference between a shill and a journalist? [1]

This is deception bordering on fraud, as I have no doubt whatsoever that AOL/TC/Arrington/Siegler will now use this new platform to make more money via the Crunch Fund.

It's sickening to imagine the adults in charge could have ever assumed this would be even close to a good idea.

[1] ("we also believe our readers are smart enough to put these columns into context")

Edit: Am I being too much of a conspiracy theorist to notice this was announced around the same time as the iPad Mini was announced?
Tim Cook's opening remarks were really over the top. You could practically see an "Applause" light blinking every time he dropped a superlative. Phil Schiller, on the other hand, seemed more genuine.
I guess a question would be, would Intel be found guilty of illegally causing the demise of AMD?

I don't think so. However it's worth mentioning that Intel certainly acted in anti-competitive ways to severely damage AMD's ability to gain marketshare.[1] The suit was eventually settled though, with Intel paying AMD a huge sum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_v._Intel
My argument is that Zynga stole another band's style and lyrics but changed the presentation slightly. They did not build on the 'basic ideas' like having a certain set of instruments.
Games are not frivolous. Games are an incredible opportunity for artistic expression, self-expression (for players), exploration of complicated topics, and overall fun.

But Zynga doesn't make games. They make shitty frontends on a spreadsheet.

As to their theft of products, that's not hearsay. That's an ongoing, provable patterns of behavior:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/25/everything...
> The patent they sued samsung over can be considered silly but what choice they had? I bet if this verdict was not given, next galaxy series would've been like iPhone 5.

You mean the way that iOS 3, 4, 5 and 6 have stolen things from Android? Hell, the Book position sync thing that they introduced today copies from Android (and likely the Kindle).

Stop it with the FUD about this. The two phones are rectangular with rounded corners. Since when is that protected design? Look at the automobile market. Models are not distinguished by a generic look and feel, but by very very specific design details. None of which were copied between the devices.

Show me ONE major Apple feature that wasn't copied from someone else. The entire product is a culmination of ideas and innovation from others. Multi-touch? Done before. Large screen? Done. Icons? Done. Multi-Tasking? Don't even kid yourself. Notifications? Really?

What they did, and where their value is, is not in the concepts or innovation. It's in the level of polish that they apply. That's their competitive advantage.

And their legal battles are proof that they cannot compete on any other front other than polish. And since Android has been making leaps and bounds of improvements over the years, it's been threatening Apple's competitive advantage. And that's why Apple is suing.

It's the ultimate instance of the pot calling the kettle black.
(I haven't borrowed any e-books from amazon so maybe they have a different scheme for those)

It has to be decentralized because you don't have to connect your kindle to amazon at any point in order to purchase and read a book.

You can choose to download the book manually from amazon when purchasing and move the file directly to the kindle over USB and be done.

The book is encrypted with your device serial number (or something similar), which is also why, if you would want to strip the DRM from the file (which might be illegal, depending on where you live), you have to supply your kindle serial number to be able to decrypt it.
You're disappointed with a product you haven't used yet?
Or attention-span-slippage caused by slow app downloads. Happens to me all the time.
This is a good video for those unfamiliar with "stop and frisk" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWtDMPaRD8
I am more concerned about all the non-technical employees they have, who may have not been as well equipped to recognize Zynga for what it is. Most of the artists probably should have been able to recognize it (with all that tracing going on...), but employees more removed than that could have been relatively blindsided.
Why should they, if it's working just fine for them?
Maybe it's a cultural divide but in my experience, in America you're encouraged to be like that. It definitely felt weird to me at first (Asian).
In regard to #1, Microsoft wants to leverage their desktop monopoly to force users into the Metro ecosystem thus forcing developers to build Metro apps.

I don't believe it's to get users comfortable with Microsoft's interface on mobile offerings though that is clearly a side-effect.
Google acquired On2 in February of 2010. In August of 2010, the MPEG-LA "announced that H.264 encoded internet video that is free to end users will never be charged royalties." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensi...)

So... yeah, I'd say it profoundly affected the MPEG-LA's behavior. If Google didn't have an easy out with (what would become) WebM, their Youtube licensing would be much more expensive.

Whether that patent promise has any bearing on the Mozilla decision is a more complicated issue. People have strong opinions on both sides.
One possibility is that Amazon's policy is (and has been) to leave purchased content on a Kindle even if the account is blocked. Unfortunately, content was removed from a Kindle after an account was blocked. Once Amazon became aware of the issue, they were able to fix it, restoring the content. In addition, because the issue had become public, Amazon chose to clarify their position and point out that mistakes can occur and be fixed. Importantly, the emails we saw yesterday refer only to why the account was blocked and whether it could be unblocked; neither the customer nor the service rep discussed the specific removal of DRM content on the device.

I find the alternatives much more surprising:

- Amazon did not have a policy on this issue prior to this situation.

- Amazon's policy is to remove any and all purchased content without explanation or warning, and they thought that no one would mind. Once they thought about it, they changed their policy.

- Or they thought they might as well screw as many people as they could until the issue became a big deal, at which point they would suddenly change their policy

- (or pretend that their policy was different all along).

- BTW, There are no bugs in Amazon's code, so one of the above must be true and any removal of content had to be due to their evil policies

- The customer service department at Amazon ignores mistakes that they know about and could fix until enough computer programmers and tech enthusiasts know about them, too.

- (because, of course, the readership of hn/wired/etc makes up a significant portion of Amazon's revenues. I mean, doesn't everyone talk about reddit at the bar after work?)

Instead, why couldn't there just be a simple mistake, which was fixed once someone became aware of it? We could all agree that the high visibility of the issue helped make the mistake clear (which Linn's emails did not) and high priority (which does not mean that it would otherwise have been completely ignored).
I just setup a local Gitorious install this weekend. Really nice to see this planned advance in the UX.
Never making invalid markup is handy, and if you have easy access to attributes you can:

.a_class{ attrs } some text

which can save a lot when you would otherwise have to write:

<div class="a_class" attr="value" another="val" dont="forget to escape"> some text </div>

The never-invalid markup is probably the bigger win, though. Primitive type checking for your HTML is arguably better than none. What I would really like is something similarly terse but faster - HAML can get pretty slow.
I blame Google for this, too. They should've made Youtube play on WebM by default, with a fallback to Flash in browsers that don't support it. That would've forced the others to adopt WebM.
For future reference, you can just visit the Apple website and get the answer. No need to start an HN topic about it:

http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/features.html#memory

Mac mini comes with 4GB of fast 1600MHz DDR3 memory. And thanks to a removable bottom panel, it’s easy to add more. Just give it a twist, and you’re in. Pop your new memory into the SO-DIMM slot, and you’re out.
I disagree.

Wired's nice little introduction will make more people aware that they don't have to put up with DRM.

Wired's attention will also make it easier to find definitive info on DRM removal. When I'm not looking for anything in particular, I look at sites like Wired. But when I want to know how to do something specific, I go straight to Google. And Wired's story will boost Apprentice Alf's search ranking, making the solution that much easier to find for folks tired of DRM.
Very few of those are for Austin. Many are from CA/NY companies.
Why the iPad Mini Matters
The great thing is that with the Start Screen the first scenario still works and anecdotally is faster for me than the Windows 7 Start Menu.
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The SaaS for GitLab can be found on www.gitlab.com (I'm the founder)
While I admire your moxy, you need to understand that a full suite of tools we use to get ASICs designed, verified, laid out and ready for fab cost 5 or 6 figures per license, depending on what you're doing. The very use of the tools themselves, is subject to non-disclosure agreements. So are the details of their pricing.

I do think the status quo will be radically reshaped by an external force one day, but thinking one is going to mount an assault without knowing who the three main EDA vendors are - let alone without real-world ASIC experience - is quixotic.

It is also not obvious to me how the economics of a viable competitor would actually work.

[EDIT: I hope this didn't come across as excessively abrasive. You are quite right - it's an industry that needs shaking up, but its not obvious how to do it. Fresh faces and new ideas would help us at least realize that there is a problem]
7" Android tablets Steve was talking about are 16x9, which means even a 7" iPad with it's 4x3 ratio would have a bigger screen area. But the Mini is 7.85". It turns out it's about 40% bigger than the Nexus 7 screen. That's not a small difference.
>> On an energy/computation basis they make more sense than x86 processors right now.

Does anyone have ANY numbers that back this up? I've heard this refrain many many times but I've never seen any hard numbers to prove this. On a processor-per-processor basis sure an ARM SoC beats a Intel Xeon. But flop or dhrystone, x86s destroy ARM processors. In a virtualized world, where the number of real systems doesn't have to match the number of servers, x86 still appears to hold the lead.
DPI has no effect on the size of a thumb relative to the size of an icon on the screen.

Smaller ipad -> smaller icons -> harder to tap
They didn't. It's exactly the same resolution as the original iPad and iPad 2
Science is all about reproducibility: if you discard the original data and someone raises a question about your processing techniques, you face the prospect of having to completely retract everything which depends on that data. Entire careers are potentially at risk and the failure mode might not even be “spend a year or two repeating an experiment” (i.e. falling behind everyone else in your field) but “hope desperately that some rare event occurs again”.

There's also a long history of data being mined later for things which the original experimenters didn't even think to collect - e.g. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/elusive-pla... - or types of analysis which was considered too expensive to perform in the past (e.g. biology went from a pre- to post- informatics era when the unit of work went from “single grad student” to “many-thousand node cluster”). Given how expensive the data was to collect, it almost always makes sense to see if it will lead to any other value.
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Ubuntu Powered Parallella Supercomputer Is "Almost a Reality"
Wonder if AMD would be able to fill/partially fill a custom Apple chip order given that rumours suggest they are shopping about for a supplier?
I still don't get the obsession with hidden controls. Why couldn't they have kept the start button, even with the current Windows 8 functionality. Instead you must guess that a hidden button appears if you move the cursor to one of two corners of the screen, and are careful to not move too far away from the screen edge as you move to click it.

It's not the only example of critical core functionality being hidden and undiscoverable by default, but it's certainly the most glaring.
Times are tough, but I sure hope not. First to 64bit, first to multicore x86, first to on-chip memory controller, first to APU. We need them to keep pushing the envelope.

I'd love to see AMD at a 22nm process with Intel and then compare them. They've managed to stay close even two process generations behind(The chip that just came out today is at 32nm).
Sure, but it could've been so much better, with almost no extra effort.

In the end, we have the worse of two options for absolutely no gain.
I am planning on building a mini-itx system with a 65watt A10 chip sometime soon, but AMD's trinity didn't launch with mini-itx mobo's and the 65 watt chips aren't on newegg yet.

The small form factor gaming/htpc market could be a good one for AMD, but they haven't been able to get any other companies to build them in volume. Usually you get the eeeBox or something underpowered using an E-350. Heck, HP is sticking those in full desktop cases which is absurd.

All the innovation left in the PC market seems to be on tablets and ultrabooks, not on the desktop at all. AMD hasn't pushed as hard on either form factor and it's hurt.

Also, why hasn't AMD done what nvidia did and become an ARM chipmaker? Tegra has sold well enough for nVidia and an ARM desktop box could be quite competitive in the next few years for the average user.
> They could've offered this at $250 and still make a profit.

Absolutely. Apple could sell all their products for 20-50% off and still make a profit.

This is not the business Apple are in. They do not want to.

Seeings they are the biggest company in the world, I suspect their decision to not reduce margins is working.
Inside a data-center packet loss is practicably zero.

More importantly you probably don't want the full TCP/IP stack for disk access inside a data-center. At the OS level disk IO has become fairly abstracted just read up on Native Command Queuing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing or even TCQ to get some idea what's already going on. Which opens a lot of doors for optimizing and makes it hard to generalize when it comes to network failures.
It's like a compatibility mode. I expect apps will be able to detect the difference, and many will resize for the new pixel density- except wait, that wouldn't work! Elements would be inconsistent in size!

This could end up a huge mess.
Do they make you promise not to resell a book more times than you bought it?
There is also a shut down option, along with restart and sleep.
How are you measuring the app store pageview -> install step?
I don't think Joe's Plumming counts as a lifestyle business. He probably put in equal hours to a startup entrepreneur.

Startup != Small Business != lifestyle business.
I know. "cd -" is available on every system I use, though.
it's fascinating how much money people are willing to pay for hardware

-- Sometimes there are social resons for this.

Tangibility. Evident complexity. Somthing to show off/talk about. You can sell art-work to hang on the wall for a much higher price than a digital file only, etc. (Software's intangibility and ease of replication in these cases are not per-se advantages.)
Zend announces new product updates for Mobile & Enterprise applications
I have a friend who has been trying to convince me that it is feasible to create a language that can let a general purpose programmer write useful software and "compile" it down to a FPGA to run really, really fast. (He has a lot of specific thoughts that I won't share about what such a language should look like.)

In principle he thinks that it should be possible to compile such a language down to an ASIC representation, but that would only make sense for very high volume runs. (He's specifically interested in software to run financial models, so those would not be high volume runs.)

He makes sense to me, but I have no idea what practical difficulties there would be. But does something like this sound doable in principle from your point of view?
>Calling the software that Zynga makes a "game" is insulting to real games.

No True Scotsman fallacy. Just because you don't think they're games doesn't make it fact. They make games, and people criticize them for it. The only thing your post did was help better prove OP's point.