skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a long list. Here are my picks (in no particular order):

* Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures The Next Big Thing? - http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/3/16/are-cloud-based-me...

* Why Are Facebook, Digg, And Twitter So Hard To Scale? - http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/13/why-are-facebook-...

* Paper: The End Of An Architectural Era (It’s Time For A Complete Rewrite) - http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/4/16/paper-the-end-of-a...

* Ask For Forgiveness Programming - Or How We'll Program 1000 Cores - http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/6/ask-for-forgiveness...

* The Performance Of Distributed Data-Structures Running On A "Cache-Coherent" In-Memory Data Grid [disclosure: I wrote that post] - http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/8/20/the-performance-of...

* Big Data Counting: How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory - http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/5/big-data-counting-h...

* MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL) - http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/8/14/memsql-architectur...

* Think Of Latency As A Pseudo-Permanent Network Partition - http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/12/think-of-latency-a...

* How Will Memristors Change Everything? - http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/5/how-will-memristors...
> What you can't do is start a side business where you become a company's competitor by finding another country where prices are low enough that you can buy bulk and import into the US for less than the US price

Why not? That's the free market economy at work isn't it? How is this different to off-shoring production and supply sourcing to save money?
The way AWS handles permissions between servers works pretty well also.

However, I think he was referring to APIs in part. I personally haven't met a scheme that I really liked. With that being said, I'm generally a fan of limiting access by IP, assigning API keys or tokens, access over SSL, and simple hashing to verify message integrity. Obviously this doesn't work for all things, but you get the picture.

Overall, I doubt that there is a one size fits all solution. Security is generally many parts working together to limit penetration as well as ensure message integrity and authenticity.
So we're using the word "ballsy" now in promotional copy? Because it seems to me that the word could be construed by some to be sexist.
Malware Authors Using New Techniques to Evade Automated Threat Analysis Systems
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Or made consistent. Another way to tackle it would be (IMHO) -

If there are laws about working conditions for (say) electronics assembly plant workers in the UK, then the UK could insist that any imported electronics are made under similarly compliant conditions abroad - i.e. if you want to access out market you play by our rules. This could cover minimum wages also.

Under those circumstances I would be more happy with grey imports being disallowed, and I would be interested to see the economic outcome.
Why such a great support to Apple even when it is so evident that the mini iPad is a first generation product? I think it has become fashionable to praise Apple even when it falls short and bash others even when they exceed expectations. This is analogous to transforming from fanboyism to fanaticism.

I hail from a place where the worth of 200$ or 300$ for a tablet cannot be justified, where we demand true value for money. So I guess I can look at these without any bias.

I am quite confident that Apple's iPad mini will have better resolution (more pixels, to be clear) in its next version. And you will find yourself saying "yes, more pixels is better".

Perhaps, Amazon is not the greatest competitor that Apple will face. Perhaps, it would be Samsung or Google. Amazon's products will not match Apple's perceived quality. Yet, these things do not change the fact that Amazon's price point would drive down the profitability of Apple products. And that, Amazon's price point will look attractive to certain segment of people (at least those like me, who believe in value for money).
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> However the Surface, while having the potential for great software, comes with something not quite finished. So while it's eminently usable as it is, it falls short of greatness.

It's like "kaizen" never happened. People really need to stop thinking about revolutionary change and remember what happens with good iterative design.

When I have a product that I'm supposed to interact with many times each day I really don't want change. I want something calming and familiar that gets better over time.
I think Native apps will continue to dominate the market. Surely the power of HTML5 apps will come into play but performencewise native apps will overshadow them.
The funny thing is that the sum seems less than the parts here—nothing looks really all that bad in isolation[+], but as a whole it's awkward and unbalanced, looking like unrelated pieces sort of crammed together as an afterthought. Utterly without grace.

I wonder what Apple's industrial designers think about it...

[+] Aesthetically, mind you; judging from comments on other sites, the hull shape is not so good for an ocean-going vessel...
At which point do these guys simply become a lynch mob?
I think you might be able to just download the Sky Sports companion iPad app to get the other camera feeds. Or you may need a Sky Go login, I can't remember.
Oh yeah, another pro Android/Amazon/Google anti-Apple comment/article/submission. This is not getting tired, not one little bit. This specific point has been covered recently as well. While this points out select bits where 'on paper' the Kindle HD is 'better' its not the entire story is it? Nothing there about build quality or durability for instance, or the ecosystem or UI/UX or that the user can most probably update the OS (compared to Android where updates are few and far between and tend to never come if you are talking about Samsung)

I loved my Nexus 7, right up until it broke (for the 4th time). This time round the screen split from corner to corner previous times the screen developed faults and once the screen actually came loose from the body. It cost 209 quid in the UK (including delivery) and I wished to hell I waited off to get the iPad mini because apart from the beautiful responsive UI/UX, applications, app store and iTunes store its probably like most Apple devices in that its built like a tank.

Sometimes its not just about figures.
How one entrepreneur is destroying the nanofiber industry intentionally
> I've had a discussion with someone else about how a group of people could route each other's packets and then hypothetically law enforcement couldn't prove who they came from.

Combine it with encryption and you'll get something like Tor or i2p. Not just hypothetical, but works very well in practice too. Things like Silk Road have been running there for years with LEOs not being able to do anything about it.
Indian Music Industry Files Petition which allows content removal without notice
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This is a good point. I wonder if they could go half way on resolution independence, a hybrid solution of some sort. They don't really need true resolution independence since they control all the hardware. But if they had something that worked within certain parameters it would ease up the burden on the hardware designers and iOS developers without hurting the UX...
> I'm guessing that the Kindle Fire has deliberately been shown all in black (with the bg the same colour as the bezel)

You need to calibrate your monitor. The screen shown on the Fire is dark grey, but not black. I can clearly see where the screen ends on the top, right, and left. The bottom is a subtle gradient to black, though.
What would you say if you could tell the whole internet?
From my reading I think that price of the screen for a 2048x1536 screen, while higher, isn't the real showstopper.

The truly big issue for a very high-resolution screen is power draw requiring a larger battery leading to a larger, heavier device.

As Amazon doesn't highlight—for obvious reasons—the iPad mini is thinner and lighter with a larger screen. This is where Apple's engineering dollars were spent.
God says...

Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the circumcision.

2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the
truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being
a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews,
why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 2:15 We who
are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 2:16 Knowing that
a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of
Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid.
I am sorry to say that while prettier, I found it harder to read than the free and open source WinDirStat (http://windirstat.info)
A better Sass mixin for Retina graphics
Most of us use @media queries to serve "Retina" graphics to mobiles phones and Macbook Pros.

Thing is, Retina graphics are really hard to test on a regular display.

The hidpi() mixin has a debug mode that enables us developers to actually test if our implementation works.

Also, if your project uses Compass on top of Sass, the hidpi() mixin can do most of the job for you (see README for more information).

Tested on many devices featuring a pixel ratio superior to 1.3, including Nexus 7, Macbook Pro Retina, iPhone 4+, Samsung Galaxy S3…

All contributions are welcome.
Ask HN:  How would you go about marketing a Windows desktop application?
If anyone has the domain knowledge, I'd be interested to hear how you'd go about marketing a new Windows desktop application. We currently have a submission out to the Microsoft store, as well as submissions out to be reviewed by CNet, Appstorm, Softpedia and Tucows. Any advice is appreciated.
> I was an Apple "Fanboy" for years, and all my computers are macs, but from time to time i get the feeling i need to switch to Unix or something else...

You're already using Unix. Mac OS X is a certified Unix system.
I think you're thinking about the problem from the wrong angle. There's three parties involved here - the filmgoer, the film maker, and the venue owner.

If you ask yourself "are there indie film makers absolutely desperate to find places willing to show their films", and "are there bar owners absolutely desperate to find ways of increasing their trade on a quiet Tuesday night", then I'm guessing the answer is "Absolutely".

And I'm also guessing that if somebody can do both services effectively enough, the two parties would happily pay a fair amount for that service.

I'm currently reading David Byrne's "How Music Works" and he's quite clearly talking about the need/opportunity for startups to plug the distribution gap for low volume indie musicians, and I don't see that the indie movie world is a great deal different to that.
HMS Bounty crew abandons sinking ship
Because the law says so. I'm all for changing the law, but that's just not what this case is about.
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Somehow Amazon have upped the ante against Apple ever since Steve Jobs passed away. The keynote slides in which Bezos revealed the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD were so Apple like.
> Again, I'm not blaming Amazon for any of this. It's just interesting to see how much thought has gone into basically attempting to deceive consumers.

It says things that are strictly true and presents the Fire in the best possible light, while leaving off anything that might balance out the comparison.

There's probably some weird parallel to Hacker News called Copywriting News where they're praising the people who created this promo.
It looks like something I'd accept if it were given to me as a gift, but to me personally wouldn't be worth the purchase with my money.

The front looks a bit weird.
Thanks, it makes sense that Asda would be one of the first to take advantage of a change in law, I recall Walmart bought them out a few years ago.
If you know how 99 Designs works then you would know that awarding multiple stars to this logo would change the submissions after to be all pancake related.

When a designer shows an interest in a logo, then all other designs follow suit and basically 'spin-off' that logo.
Man, this is more complicated than Google Wave!
> also, I still have no idea why isn't that thing Retina

I can't find the link, but I remember reading that if the Mini had the iPad's retina display shrunk down, it would have had an unbelievably high resolution display, which would have increased the price of the Mini significantly.

Not something Apple would want when targeting the 7" tablet market.
I hope you are aware that apple does this too (and far better). I say this because I wouldn't see this type of post after an apple keynote. They are MASTERS of setting the conversation points.

Take the iPhone4 launch. A new phone with a slightly higher resolution screen, but significantly smaller than the existing competition. Their framing, with retina branding, switched the existing conversation from screen size, not to resolution even (where apple had a minor lead, that would be soon overtaken) to PPI! There was almost no discussion of PPI before this. Apple competitors were now framed as 'worse' if they included a screen with the same resolution but bigger! Insane!

Now fast-forward to 2012, and we have a new iPad marketed as 35% bigger screen (again they have found a metric that maximises the difference, which would normally be framed as the 7" vs 7.9"), no mention of resolution.

Apple would never even show a competitor on their site, because they are the market leader.. but see Mac vs PC for what happens when they are not.
Their profit isn't.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/25/us-amazon-results-...
So the Dutch shipyard crew finishes an 8 or 9 figure yacht (that you know had to be not as easy as a regular 8 or 9 figure yacht) and they get handed a $25 iPod and a thank you note written in English?

That kind of came off as tacky. Or a fitting summary of Jobs' career.
Check out the iMac gallery on the Apple Store, the fifth and sixth pictures show a side view. I would expect the show they put on to only provide the best views of their products but at least you can find better pictures on their site.
Agreed both sides have their fair share of false marketing but did you really have to add the last paragraph? Everything else about your counter is reasonable, no need to be snide.
Sourcing enough parts could also have been an issue. Perhaps they couldn't get enough high resolution 7" screens fast enough. Having the mini being on back order throughout December would easily cost them many more sales than they lose from people who decide to skip the mini due its screen resolution.
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>There's probably some weird parallel to Hacker News called Copywriting News where they're praising the people who created this promo.

I want Copy News so much now :(
I recently read an article on HN wherein a user posted asking all of us to be 'civil'. This is the reason why HN isn't so civil. You like a product, you try to support as if you created it and as if the company cares for you, while in reality the company doesn't care about you and you're just doing free marketing for them.

Not to say that you can't defend what you like, but most of what you've written here is very very subjective. One could argue otherwise too, and which is what is happening right here - You're adding subjectivity to your claims and provoking a 'fanboy' war. This is unacceptable.

For example, if I were to counter you, I would then say the entire of Apple's presentations and Marketing is just plain BS. For example they frequently market saying "The world's best Operating System (referring to Mac OS)" or "The fastest phone ever" etc. while these are not true. The iPhone for instance, still runs on a dual core processor. How the fuck can it be the 'fastest' while high-performance quadcore chips were long released even before this phone came into existence?

Where were you during Apple's presentations? I never saw you arguing "Hey that's not true, this is disingenuous" while they marketed their products in a similar fashion.

So may I kindly request you to cut the crap and stop the bias and avoid provoking people into such techno-wars?

Thanks
The list of countries where Amazon has deals in place to distribute digital content (apart from eBooks) is pretty low:

http://www.macstories.net/stories/mapping-the-entertainment-...
Precisely. If you want to challenge a product with massive mindshare [1], then you need new, very compelling features, and preferably be compatible with the existing ecosystem.

1: Unless you can play "abusive monopolist".
yeah, i know that already. I meant a more Linux oriented OS. So to save time i wrote unix instead of mentioning all those popular unix distributions.
Your Spouse Is Your First Investor
I keep a lot of notes, recipes, code snippets, lists, ideas, etc in Notational Velocity. I keep them in a folder on my Dropbox. That means I've always got access to them, provided I have access to a computer with internet and a simple text editor.

Notational Velocity has an amazingly simple interface. And it's fast. It deals just with text, which is all I need.

To ease online access, I've dived into my first Ember.js adventure and am writing a simple web application that mimics Notational Velocity. It accesses files trough the Dropbox API. It's not done yet, but it's on its way :)

Linky: http://notational.net/
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That's what I wondered too. It's easy to "show" a certain "saturation" when using a log scale and that only means it doesn't grow relative to its current size.
Get Skype on your TV and convert your living room into a conference room
Having owned both, I am sticking with the iPad. The Fire is good for the price but I constantly got the feeling that I was working to use the device. But that's just one man's opinion. I know others who swear by the Fire.
I think the reasons you list are why people really dislike Zynga, but those things alone are not enough to explain the pure hate people have for the company.

The reason I think they are evil is the way they treat their employees, beginning with forcing developers to give back stock before their IPO. This latest stunt is just piling on.
Does anyone know where this "No HD movies or TV" thing is coming from? Can the iPad mini not play 720p content or something? A link to where this is stated would be helpful.
I recommend putting at least a screenshot on your landing page. Whenever I'm looking for software, I'd like a quick look at the UI to decide I want to try or not.

If there are a lot of competing services, I tend to pick one that has UI previews to save time.
Great story - I've had MTU and firewall fun before but nothing so subtly treacherous.

I've been wondering about something not entirely unrelated we see sporadically from a small but widespread number of users. We serve deep zoom images and the client appears to run normally but sends malformed image tile requests - e.g. in the URLs "service" is consistently garbled as "s/rvice", "dzi" as "d/i". I've seen this from IPs on every continent and user agents for most common browsers as well as both iOS and Android. My current theory is that it's some sort of tampering net filter as a fair number of the IPs have reverse DNS / Whois info suggesting educational institutions but have thus far failed to confirm this, particularly since none of the users have contacted us.
Not to mention it seems plain wrong.

These are icons, not ligatures.
Ask HN: Ethics of applying to work at other companies
I was wondering if anyone could help to shed some light on my situation:

I'm 19 and have been working as a PHP web developer in the north of England for 7 months now, though I've been programming for 3 years. I am paid far under what everyone else in my position is paid, though I get bi-monthly (but small) wage increases.

The amount of money I currently get from my work is not enough for me to live off, after paying rent, travel to work and council tax, I only have £6 left every 2 weeks. My current food bill is £3 per week. £3. And I have no more money after that.

I have found another job which offers over 3x what my current job does, requiring experience in technologies which I use daily and some of which I am certified in (E.G. I have my Google Certified Adwords and Analytics certificates.)

What are the ethics of my applying to the other job for an interview and could my boss fire me if he knew I was looking elsewhere?
Air's aren't Retina. Mac Books aren't Retina. iMacs aren't Retina. In short, what you have posted is completely wrong.

As for Amazon's ad, it doesn't really matter to me. Apple can deal with it. I'm not going to spend my morning debating it on HN.

The one good thing about it is that Amazon wants to compete strongly for the tablet market. As a consumer of any "faith", this is good because it will create a technology race where we all win.
So companies use marketing to spin their products? Selecting language and images that favours their stuff over the competition?

Let me get a pen and paper and write this down.
Except that, these employees were paid by the manufacturer of the yacht company. The Jobs' didn't have to give them anything. A thank you note was already above. The iPod was beyond.
The POF one tickles me, i love the whole approach.

The genius in it is not spending untold time and money building the latest whizz-bang responsive gui, or never getting launched because the "web scale" back end isn't the worlds most perfect design yet. It's all just hacked together organically, with the simplest, path of least resistance choices taken at every stage.

I love that this succeeds, i love that it's not over ambitious, i love that it costs the owner minimal maintenance time.

Hats off to that man!
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> How the fuck can it be the 'fastest' while
> high-performance quadcore chips were long released
> even before this phone came into existence?

Indeed how? How was scrolling on the first iPhone smoother than on current android devices running on said quad core chips?
How about understanding that processor power is not all there is?

> So may I kindly request you to cut the crap and stop the bias and avoid
> provoking people into such techno-wars?

And how about you following your own advice?
Or they could provide a better product for that market that made it naturally distasteful to the US market. Like a book written in the language of the land (The market for CS books written in Filipino should be relatively small in a non Filipino speaking countries). Why make them work when we could just legislate profits their way?
Does anyone know why iPad has single speaker?
Good point on the Mac vs PC part.