skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it be too expensive? How many fab's are there (so, which % of worldwide output does each do), and how much % of all intel chips is bought by Apple? If the numbers are somewhat equal, they buy the capacity of one fab anyway. Then they can just as well buy the fab itself.
Jive Software Acquires Meetings.io and Producteev To Enhance Social Platform
That's an easy problem to solve, as Microsoft would be around and able to supply that. As long as 3rd party software is delivered as .NET .exe files they should easily run, probably even when p/invoking, as long as the OS comes with the necessary standard .dlls. Actually I'm quite certain Windows RT already has all this solved under the hood.
Agreed. Although Office staying Win32 sure doesn't send the signal to others that its worth the effort to move software like that to .NET. Anyway, I'm always surprised how few things seem to be .NET, here nearly 11 years after it was introduced.
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With what uncontrolled mass media? The window for this has closed.
Like the article mentioned, Brasilia is a glorified disaster in usability for everyone except those in cars. It's terrible for humans on foot or on bicycles. However the biggest travesty was the decision to locate the city in an area that has a 10-15% relative humidity during the winter months (May to September). It is so dry that your eyes and throat will be very dry, scratchy and uncomfortable and your lips will become chapped. Some people even experience nosebleeds from the excessive dryness.

The other problem with Brasilia is the 99%er problem. The city was built by the 99% for the 1%. All the 99%ers ended up in the slummy satellite cities, where the quality of life is low and where there hasn't been any real sources of economic activity to raise the quality of life.
Ask HN: How do startups avoid violating patents?
Hello, I have been contemplating the idea of building an App/web business. But there have been enough news about companies getting sued for violating patents that makes me think again! There are so many patents that basically cover every aspect of everything. I know not all of these lawsuits are legit but as a small startup there is really no resources to research what technique/algorithm/technology is patented or not, and any lawsuit can easily kill a startup. So how do the majority of startups avoid being dragged into these patent problems?
How about staging 8 files out of 10 that are currently modified, with no matching glob patterns for the CLI to use? I don't care how fast your keyboarding is, simply selecting the 8 (even better, select all and unselect the 2 you don't want) and dragging them into the index is the fastest way.

Or how about firstly determining which old commit you would like to revert a single file to, then secondly doing the actual revert. I can just view the file's log at a glance, get the revision I want, right-click and select "Reset File to This Commit".

By the way, I love Vim. But your disdain for "pointing-and-clicking" sounds like so much machismo.
Ask HN: personal hosting
Talking about hostings, what hosting would you recommend for personal website(-s)?
After two years of using stablehost.com I find myself in need of bigger hosting (space) for similar price (had 50% recurring).
Do you have any budget hosting recommendation?

I would use appfog but I need bigger than 100Mb database (mysql) for one of my projects.

It doesn't matter if it is PaaS or old-school ftp/cpanel hosting.
I would like to spend not more than 50$
You can get small quadopters for $50, with control and everything. Look on banggood.com (they are lots of fun and worth the price)
Alex - impressed with how much you have been able to accomplish. Nice article and keep doing your thing.
isn't 10 minutes pretty standard for electric RC copters/planes? I don't think there's a battery that can last longer than that without being insanely expensive.
You know what's hilarious? CIA/Brits worrying about public opinion more than God's.

I gave my soul away when I was an atheist.

You know what's funny? God sees you.

Matter of fact, God has something to say to you who haven't gone through the terror you can imagine would happen to such an atheist.

In other words "ROFLMAO! That's gonna leave a mark."

God says Line 72327

golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken
out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his
princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the
temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and
his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of
brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote
over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the
king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled
him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote
one against another.
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This doesn't really answer your question but there is a huge problem with software patents and it is out of control. Here is a good article on wired about it http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...
Mac volume is way lower than iPhone volume, so the additional risk is miniscule.

It's almost like the Mac is just a big 'hobby' for Apple.
I expect we may reveal what kinds of things we take as good signals, but the exact recipe will probably remain a secret sauce. Even if we don't, most of the components are really quite obvious: what kinds things would people do if they really liked or hated your business? Those are the kinds of things we're measuring.

Yeah, our SoHo office had no power for almost all of last week. We managed to find temporary office space in Midtown to work out of.

Most of the work for venue ratings was done before the storm though. We've been testing the product internally for a few weeks now. That said, a lot of people were getting work done even from our displaced office space.
Kinect Fusion - Microsoft’s 3-D Modeling Technology for Windows SDK
I only really care about restaurant reviews, and on Yelp, the only way I've found it to work is to find a single reviewer who is methodical (and basically inhuman) to follow, then rely on that person's reviews.

(http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=kSfj8tii1tw8bH1OYmb-... is the finest reviewer ever in the Mountain View/mid-Peninsula level. 75% of all value I get out of Yelp comes from that person; the remaining 25% is knowing about hours, address, and phone number better than crappy restaurant websites.)
I am wondering if Apple should not just go ahead and acquire AMD in order to further vertical integration.
Interesting. I first read ZAMM first when I was 15, and really enjoyed it, but I would strongly encourage everyone who has not read "Lila" to please read it, as Pirsig basically retracts most of what he said in ZAMM. In his own words, "Lila" is his "smart child", and the book he wants to be remembered by. It is a much better book than ZAMM.

If anyone is interested, I just discovered William James Sidis's "The Animate And The Inanimate" here:

http://www.sidis.net/ANIMContents.htm
Souders and Crockford?! Nice.
You don't get it. The phrase "Nuremberg defense" is not a reference to the trials, it's a reference to the type of defense. So, if you here that in conversation, they aren't equating the situation to the holocaust, but rather the type of defense used (I was just following orders).

The only person equating anything to the holocaust was you.
Judge puts an end to Apple's patent license lawsuit against Motorola
I have no doubt that 10gen would adore it if mongo were the PHP of storage engines, considering PHP's massive success
Chrome Extension to Like your own Comments on Facebook
Yes, I use magit to stage chunks in emacs. Even if I have modified a file and end up staging the whole thing, looking at what i'm staging is way more useful than the way stock git presents things.
I can't imagine myself using a GUI for git, but there are some things that are faster with a GUI and mouse than with a keyboard. Almost all of them involve some kind of visual feedback. For instance, lately I've been working on some projects that involve absolutely positioning HTML elements on the page. This is a huge pain using a text editor--you make an estimate, save it, reload the page, see how it looks, and repeat. Just clicking and dragging is much, much easier.

Other than that, I generally think that keyboard is a faster input, though an 80-character terminal window is often a poor choice for visual feedback. Termkit has some interesting ideas: http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
The first thing I would try is rebuilding the cache. Since you only need to do key-value lookups, there are many (easy) approaches, that can scale better than MySQL. You could do JSON files on a filesystem (with some nesting, as you don't want to put 20 million files in 1 dir). Or Redis: 20 million x 1 KB is 20 GB. You will need more with overhead, but a few machines would work. Or Riak (we went > 1 billion items with Riak).
But even MySQL should be able to handle this: We had over 100 million records in MySQL (on SSD's) before switching to something else.

That seems to be the quickest win to reduce the number of requests, but it will depend on the overlap of your usersets how much this will help.
This is worth knowing about, and the video is fine, but it took me less time to just read the manual. I guess I'm a textual animal.
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend taking a look at Stacked Git (stg). It adds a beautiful layer on top of git that helps you manage a "stack" of commits. Useful when you're working on a large change and want to think about smaller commits.

Combined with `git add -p`, stg is easily the most useful git tool in my toolbox.
Michelle here (OP). We consider ourselves an API company rather than an analytics portal. We sometimes describe ourselves as a "mobile analytics backend as a service", although that is kind of an awkward mouthful.

Our target customers are mobile developers who would otherwise need to roll their own analytics infrastructure for their apps. Generally people build their own analytics backends because other tools on the market don't provide an easy way to get data back out. That makes it hard to build analytics into custom interfaces or do data analysis across other areas of your business, for example. We provide full export and expose analytics via API.

We are trying to make our product extremely developer-friendly and make it as easy as possible to get data and metrics in and out of Keen IO so that people can do whatever they want with their data. For example, you could build a tab in your iPhone app that displays your custom event data metrics.

Hope that makes sense. We welcome any feedback you might have for our startup :)
I think a distinction must be made among users between individuals and brands. Individuals and their 'likes' are still valuable to Facebook, but brands and their Fan presence are not. I don't see anything wrong with asking brands to bring something to the table in order to use Facebook's infrastructure as a broadcast alternative to Twitter.

If Mark Cuban was using the Mavs fan page as an advertising platform, he should be willing to pay as long as it provides enough value. Otherwise, go ahead and move to MySpace or Tumblr. Facebook probably won't miss the traffic.
Despite the downvotes, this guy is correct - Vietnam is probably the country with the most incidences of credit card fraud.
This is a truly terrible idea. I am not sure what message you think it will send or even who the message is supposed to be directed towards.

You should vote for the best candidate.
The thing is, I don't think this post benefits the community, especially reposting the lifehacker version after the original was front page so recently. I'm not really into social hacking, personally it feels dishonest. I discussed this on the last thread; social hacking only works because you're working against the norm. If everyone adopted it, it wouldn't be effective. So you have to do things that are really outrageous, that most people won't do. The other downside is that social hacking doesn't usually create anything; if everyone was social hacking, nobody would have energy for constructive endeavours.

The broader point of my first post was that I felt there might be some manipulation of the system to put this post on the front page. Unfortunately it's difficult to prove, but we could always say that I'm making baseless allegations for reasons of self-promotion. That certainly feels like social hacking
I wonder if they are going to flip the "facebook photos is now instagram" switch some time soon?
Awesome! Congratulations Denis & Arend!
> The iPhone 5 was hyped by the media in every possible sense.

So was the iPhone, and the iPad, and the iPhone 4, and the 4S, and the iPad mini, and basically every Apple product ever. This isn't new.

> It was projected to be some kind of a super-phone.

By who? Your local news station? Nobody with any sense made that prediction.

> Some even speculated it to have a mini projector, laser-keyboard and what not.

Random analysts and tech enthusiasts figured that Apple would randomly switch gears to gimmicky half baked features that nobody else has shipped yet instead of using the years of actual information at their disposal that shows Apple iterates over constantly overhauling?

Yeah real surprising.

> while the rest of its competitors have had super-fast quad-core chips with higher clock speed

You know nothing about the topic you're talking about. The iPhone 5 A6 processor benches faster than most Android tablets and the GPU outstrips all Mali GPUs and the Tegra 3. Meanwhile "super-fast quad core chip" has so little meaning it might as well just be a marketing term.
Can you efficiently select and sort on the date part of the _id?
Actually, this article only recommends not voting for the senators which supported SOPA. It doesn't recommend voting for the other major party candidate, or a third party, or anyone at all.
For the future, mnutt: I love Chrome's developer tools, you can directly edit CSS rules from the browser by right clicking on it and selecting inspect element. Helps a lot with these situations!
PollVault: ‘Crowdsourcing’ Your Voting Decisions
> Facebook may have opened the door to something like sarcastic Amazon reviews.

Remember the Chik-Fil-A debacle? Their FB page became ground zero for Chik-Fil-A's opponents, and that was without promoting any posts--they were trying to downplay Dan Cathy's gay marriage comments by stealthily releasing a statement via Facebook, to the exclusion of all other channels.

But I don't know if there's a solution. FB is getting so bloated and unwieldy for advertisers AND end users (I'm both).
Agreed.

Cook is not the second largest shareholder of Apple stock and does not have a thirty year working relationship with the largest shareholder.

Thus, unlike Ballmer, Cook serves at the pleasure of Wall Street.
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This is why voting machines should be Open Source.
I have read it. It's excellent. "Outsider" is the term chosen by Grady Towers high IQ society correspondents.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that iOS will replace OSX.

An iOS that would be capable of developing iOS apps as efficiently as Xcode on OSX would be a very different iOS from anything like the versions we have seen to date.
Not my experience with 99 Designs. I used them to come up with a design for our site, and contacted the customer service several times - to extend it a few times, or to just find out my options. They were always helpful.
Except that there's a good chance that Broun will have the opportunity to vote on the next iteration of SOPA or its successor, but a very slim chance that Broun will have the opportunity to vote on requiring biblical compliance or on whether evolution is real.
I don't think you should vote for "any party." Some third party candidates may believe things you abhor. I really feel pretty strongly that you should vote for the best candidate (third party or not).
Patents are for gays
Agreed. They've also got a big process-node lead on everyone else in the market; I find it hard to believe they can't leverage that to optimize whatever processor design parameters they need to.
Czochralski_process - how silicon wafers are made.
Waltz: make web.py apps in 3/4 time
When a legislator sponsors legislation she doesn't understand, there's a failure somewhere. Regardless of where that failure comes from, I feel comfortable saying that legislator has made a fairly grievous error.

I didn't mean to imply that I'm entirely a single-issue voter, merely that I'm upset enough by that error to avoid that politician. Perhaps I'd consider differently if I thought the outcome of this election were in doubt or that my single vote was significant enough to matter. As it is, I tend to regard voting as an exercise in personal satisfaction more than an act which carries weight.
Apple Sells 3 Million New iPads, Including Mini, in One Weekend
Relevant xkcd:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
Ford, thank you for taking steps towards the future. This move certainly puts your company on the right path. As the son of a mechanic and a proud Ford owner, I am excited to see what I can bring home and show off to my family.
My speculation (completely not based on any knowledge - just what I would have done had I been in Apple's place)

1. Buy AMD (or Cyrix or one of the other companies that has a working AMD64/x86 chip)

2. Build a laptop that has both an acceptably strong AMD64 for the time, and a ridiculously strong (but scalable) ARM - say, a 16-core or 64-core 64-bit ARM core, which can scale its power.

3. Politely ask app developers to ship 3-arch fat binaries: AMD64+ARM64+LLVMIR (politely ask might mean refuse in the Mac app store otherwise). Well, the first two are actually optional, but recommended. Or the last one is optional but recommended.

4. Introduce a laptop with an OLED/color eInk (or other very low power) display, which can run either ARM64 or AMD64 or both, and can scale the number of cores. And an API that would let an app switch seamlessly between those modes.

5. Tell people "your laptop can do 24 arm-core-hours (so, 2 hours using 12 cores, or 24 hours using one core), or 6 amd-core-hours. You pick the software, you choose.

6. Watch as people (hopefully) prefer the amd64 mode thanks to its long life.

No company except Apple is in a position to pull such a thing. Maybe Apple can't either - but if anyone can, it is Apple.
In the case of my app, monogr.am, we provide a custom designed gallery with options to choose any images from your feed. We have custom domains etc. I don't see this as a competitor at all for our market - people who really put time and effort into their images.

Instagram's really just showing your latest photos online and a few curated ones at the top. The user has no control at all over which images are shown.
> It seems strange to me, but it looks like 'personal mobile computers' have a requirement for "device freshness" that is much closer to the shelf life of sliced bread than it is to that of a comparably-priced television.

That's because the differences are still appreciable to the average consumers. Nobody cared about DVD-Audio, or SACDs, BluRay, 4k HD, 3DTV, etc... because they don't add an appreciable improvement to the experience.

People upgrade their phones or tablets frequently because the new one is almost always very noticeably faster and more responsive than the old one. Considering for many users this is the first time they've been able to outstrip their device in terms of speed (meaning they can navigate faster than the device can respond) I can easily see why upgrades are so desirable.
Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic
It always helps to know influential people, whether on HN, or elsewhere!
As far as I know, payment providers generally don't have access to the itemized bill for the services or goods purchased, only the total charge, date/time, and the name of the merchant.
Very nice. I love that you're concentrating on making a solid scalable data analytics backend instead of a flashy 'it goes ding when there's stuff' interface. I don't know how many solutions I've hand rolled where your product wouldn't fit in quite nicely. I've taken a look at your documentation and even though it's young it looks pretty good. Great work.
I appreciate your honest input. And I agree to an extent that social hacking (networking) is not everything, far from it. However, in building a company, it's a very useful skill to have.

As far as appearing on front page, I am not sure how hn works, but I can guarantee you that I have no interest in manipulating upvotes, nor do I have time to do it.

And overall, I am just trying to create useful content for the community.
For the record, I think the iPad mini is overpriced. Apparently, a lot of consumers see it as an inexpensive iPad.
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Apple loses its cool right now... quickly. Wait and see. The problem for Apple is that also the "uninformed crowd" slowly starts to realize that Apple rips them off.

That's at least what's happening here in Germany where also mainstream newspapers talk negative about Apple's politics when it comes to marketing and / or lawsuits.
Lead by Peter Thiel, an outside investor.
We want to use air because of the cheap, gravitational pressure vessel we have on this planet. :-)
"optimale". Huh.
And hence, worth a 1% acquisition.
If you really don't think a senator can change anything, then why are you voting at all?

If you think voters aren't well educated, there are things you can do to help fix that. Arbitrarily voting against incumbents is unlikely to help.
Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS
And yet they're growing like crazy compare to Microsoft and Google.
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The process node lead won't last forever though. We're going to reach the end of silicon soon, by the mid-2020s at least. Whatever replaces it isn't necessarily going to be from Intel, because they don't have expertise in much besides silicon. I wouldn't be surprised if it's another player, like IBM, that finally cracks it.
this is going to be an awesome talk!
Why would a developer have to account for varying storage, mobile broadband, or Bluetooth accessories like a keyboard or stylus?

As for resolutions or RAM, I think we can all agree 2 is simpler than all.
It depends a little on the type of purchase. And, with Square, they're providing the POS (or deep POS integration) which makes it easier to get visibility into products.

I believe credit card companies almost all get deep info when purchasing plane tickets. There may be other categories. Even just knowing main bill vs. tip (which you could easily determine from preauth vs. final amount, if restaurants preauth for the billed amount only, which I think some card associations or acquirers mandate) works as a first approximation -- if I tip 25+%, I probably liked the product or service.

There's also the "purchasing card" market, where itemized invoices (level 2 or 3) get sent to the issuer and then to the responsible party.
I agree entirely. You never see the cliparty slapshy chartjunk that is most of the infographics online. Any infographic from NY Times is designed to show only the data and nothing but the data. For oil prices, a bar chart, not a chart of barrels.
Hmm. Very pinteresting.
Then you should work to make this a common option in the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above

You should not arbitrarily vote for candidates who do not match your beliefs as part of some sort of protest.