skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iMac is in a sub-market of desktops (call it All-in-Ones) where design aesthetic does matter. A lot of people have said to me that they're thinking of buying a new iMac, more so than the previous generation, which shows the thinness does resonate with people.

Obviously, this is a small part of the overall desktop market, but it is the bit that Apple is interested in.
I wish sets like this came with an ordered and unordered list icon.
WSJ Ignores 5 other Square co-founders
at least you aren't bitter about it :)
Microsoft Design Language (MDL) - official replacement for 'Metro' style apps.
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Awesome. As someone who spent 10 years with RISC OS, this just rocks.
Thanks for posting this :) ...I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has.
You can mitigate this with a bookmarklet. Jesse Ruderman's zap events doesn't block onmousedown (which Google uses), but it is easy enough to add it:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html#zap_events
Well, I haven't been able to try out any of the projects myself; but I know the creator of this service. You can contact him at pocha AT stalkninja DOT com or @pocha on twitter for stats. As for people who have actually taken up projects posted there, I'm sorry, but I'm not in contact with any of them.
You can't. Always going to be ways to cheat. Wouldn't be that hard either. Webcam/screen share? Just have another computer hooked up out of view behind your monitor with all the information on it.
Pronounced 'Muddle'?
What if I use it as a online WYSIWYG HTML editor? If I create a table and then copy paste the HTML code into not BootStrap based webpage like Blogger, will that work?

I think it should work if I have not included special Google webfonts.
You are absolutely correct. Apple has time and time again poked fun at, snubbed nose at, or just plain put down competitors devices that they considered "sucky". When it comes to advertising, there is no notion of fair. I say this as someone who only has Apple electronics in the house. And frankly, who didn't think the Mac & PC commercials weren't a little funny?

I don't particularly take offense at the Amazon ad. When it comes down to it, people will only care about the Kindle for the price. It's already shown to be slow and Amazon has some weird data collection/spying things that have popped up with Silk (although most people will not care about this). Apple will never beat anyone on price and they don't care about this.

If you care about how things are made, the quality of the OS, etc (the usual thing's Apple sells products on), then the extra $100+ for the market leader won't be an issue. Again, Apple knows this and they consistently state that they're not interested in the bottom of the barrel. And anyways, Apple can't win in the low price points, Android has that market wrapped up.

So, I think it's good that Amazon has this. They've taken a page outta Apple's play book. And if anything, all this pressure might force Apple to drop to $299. They've reduced prices before, but somehow, at this point in time with their dominance, I doubt they will. They have enough cash in the bank to allow the Mini to flop if it has to...
Not an expert, but I'd be worried about those hull windows around the bow getting broken as you plowed through waves. Maybe the boat is more of an Apple III than an iPhone.
No, this has been the case for as long as I can remember. Years, at least.
I am glad it is possible for you, and truly impressed. But for some people it would be a matter or organizing 28 hours into a 24 hour day, and still not sleeping. When I did my tiny startup years ago it was every waking second of every day. Granted mine failed absolutely, not with a bang but a whimper, so I am not an ideal example.
Apple devoted a whole segment of their iPad mini pitch to showing that Android tablet apps are often just upsized versions of the same UI as for phones, whereas iPad apps tend to be more often designed for the iPad screen.

Whether you believe this or not, this is what Apple are telling consumers about app reuse on Android vs iOS.
This bothered me at first, but then I thought to myself: anyone naive enough to believe the Kindle Fire HD is better than the iPad mini deserves to own a Kindle Fire HD.
This isn't new, and it's not as simple as not letting the browser change the URL during the click event. This swapping of addresses is more complicated that it even needs to be, all we need is:

<a href="http://google.com" id="link">Google</a>

and some JavaScript running like this:

document.querySelector("#link").addEventListener('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
document.location = 'http://evil.com';
}, false);

And this is a valid use case - perhaps we're in a web app and if the user clicks the link, we want to perform an AJAX call for the data instead of the normal link action - unless they're opening the link in a new tab, in which case it should load as usual (from the URL given in the link). So this isn't really a easily fixable problem.
90% believe in extra-terrestrials
I had a totally different comment plotted out before realizing that the link actually points to the demo URL (which previews 'google.com' and directs to the malicious URL on click, as expected.)

In summary, I am wrong, and you are right. Thanks for pointing it out, as I was genuinely confused there for a moment.
Well, he did write "threads"

> "How are the threads arranged?"

So the whole 4 separate threads idea still holds if we assume the balloon will lift the kids off the ground. That was a bit of a huge hole in the riddle. It should have been noted that the children were immovable anchors. Feynman would have had a field day with this.
While I am sure Amazon stockholders and financial types care very much about a net loss, the consumer market does not. They are very effectively competing in the market for tablets. Whether the way they are competing is good for business is an entirely separate matter.
I'm sure there were marks on the table showing exactly where to position it at each pause. (Yep, as axx points out, you can see him check the base on the table before turning.) It's that kind of production. People physically present in the audience obviously get varying angles, but unless he is panning it around for everyone you can be sure it is planned for the camera.

Ok, got the keynote downloaded. My memory is off. He doesn't pause at exactly a side view. He passes through it twice, and the split screen shows the bulge pretty well, when they are showing the side, but obviously a viewer's attention could be on the other half of the split.

To my additional surprise, the first glory shot of the thin edge does show about half of the bulge. He could easily have stopped a few degrees sooner and shown no bulge. I wonder if that gives the viewer the belief that the bulge is much smaller than it is. That may be reading too much in.
Nice. But they're not ligatures. Also 'refreshbutton' is backwards.
Here's a quarter... :)
How do you get people to care?
Valve: Linux More Open Than Windows 8 for Gaming
Crowdsourced "spoiler" button that hides the answer to everyone unless they choose to reveal it ?
The density numbers in the article are only interesting because they mean that nanotube transistors are practical. A 90nm process node is what we were using for Athalon 64s and Pentium 4s, it won't let you put more cores on a chip than you have now. Maybe someday nanotubes will shrink that small, but that wasn't what the article was about.

The amazing thing about nanotubes is that they have an electron mobility of 100,000 cm2/(V·s) at room temperature, the highest of anything you could think about making a transistor out of. By contrast, silicon has an electron mobility of only 1400 cm2/ (V·s). Since the drive current coming out of transistor is roughly proportional to electron mobilty (or equally high hole mobility) you'd expect that you'd expect that a nanotube based transistor would be able to switch 70 times as fast as a silicon based one. Or a quarter of a terrahertz, in other words. Now, speed of light delays at 90nm will probably be pretty significant at that point, but we should still expect that moving to nanotubes to be a huge win for single threaded performance at the expense of the number of threads available.
Gitlab to IRC Notifier (Tiny Sinatra App)
You can't even stop offline students from cheating, so what hope is there for online students?
My girlfriend and I just moved into the middle of Manhattan from the suburbs, and I simply don't buy these numbers.

First off, what exactly does 'cost of living' mean? My old apartment was $1400 a month in rent, and we put at least $300 a month towards gas, insurance, and maintenance for each of 2 cars. (excluding depreciation or car payments, we owned both cars outright). So a minimum of $2000 in car & apartment costs. We had a 3 bedroom condo with 2 and a half bathrooms - for 2 people. We had almost half of the place entirely empty, but it was hard to find anything smaller of the same quality. Crappy apartments were $1000, so it didn't really make sense to move.

Now we are paying $2500 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment. It is really nice, in a doorman building, with a rooftop patio on the 20th floor with big city views, a nice kitchen, family room, eating area, walk in closets, etc. On a per square foot basis, it is probably 3x as much. But we sold the two cars, so we are really only about $500 a month higher than before. And instead of having 15-20 minute commutes in the car, we both can walk a couple of blocks to work.

Then there are a few more wrinkles. The old apartment was all electric, and my utilities were from $100 in the summer to $250 in the winter. This apartment has steam heat and chilled water cooling included in the rent. I no longer have to pay for water. I'm paying less for TV & Internet than before. Groceries are a little more expensive, but Fresh Direct delivers to my door and costs about 10-15% more than the suburbs at most.

The biggest increase in cost is going out to bars & restaurants, but that is a totally discretionary expense.

Overall, I would say a conservative estimate is that our cost of living went up a total of $1000 a month. We needed a combined extra $20,000 salary to pay for that. Our raise was multiple times that amount.
I agree with you on the unnecessary puzzle solving. I don't even solve Sudoku. How can I even come up with a reasonable solution in 45 minute? The only puzzle I ever solved with C++ and Java was minesweeper and it took me a month in each language. I do think algorithm design problems like fitting 1 million 8 digits into 1 M ram is an OKAY question. Google's scale is big, and they want to test you how quickly you can arrive an OKAY solution in 45 minutes, even if it's wrong.
You don't need to stop the cheating if there is no reason to place value on the outcome in the first place. It seems the deeper problem is that marks have come to have meaning outside of their intended purpose: To provide a gauge to see your own level of understanding. Eliminate that and the purpose of cheating vanishes. If you score 100% on a test, but walk away knowing you have no knowledge of the subject matter, you've only hurt yourself.
Identifying Features in Images with Cluster Analysis
Amazing to see the ecosystem rising around bootstrap.
> Much Less is the iPad Mini

Not even likely. "Much less" is only about money: $199 vs $329
My experience with synthetic benchmarks is from the old days of PC gaming video card comparisons where they ultimately meant very little. Since then I view most benchmarks as almost irrelevant. I say almost because they all have their uses but should not be glorified as much as they are.
Tariffs actually achieve just the opposite - it increases the cost of foreign imports. Also, it does it for everybody, also for authorized importers/resellers.

Well, sometimes there is hardly anything else but copyright that constitutes products (e.g. media, books). Personally, I would also enable the same kind of protection for trademarks (so that iPad could be sold for different price in West and elsewhere).
What is the Minecraft?
A Matrix Parody, Minecraft Tribute
Pretty much every problem you describe here is a result of; A: you not being enough of a power user to know Win+R commands like control, ncpa.cpl, devmgmt.msc etc.. and B: you refusing to learn a new way to do things. While I also had similar frustration the first 2 days I used the operating system by the third day I realized that the things that were frustrating me most were tasks that required a round about shortcut to get to in Win7 but have been supplanted by a far easier method in Win8. Coupled with Office 2013, the improvements in usability and speed far outweigh any subjective issues stemming from which corner you need to move your mouse to in order to accomplish things, which btw for shutting down and entering the control panel is the bottom right.(Yes, even in desktop mode)
Right. I expect people to switch over to other materials only after improvements using silicon stop.
I wouldn't count Google as unknown ;-)
RIAA Failed To Disclose Expert’s Lobbying History to “Six-Strikes” Partners
Yes, I found about it later in the thread. The perks about replying before reading everything.

I'm actually pretty excited about git-annex. The Windows GUI will probably be neglected, but as long as the pipes are good, the chrome can be fixed easily.
Owning a number seems weird, but the truth is all information can be seen as numbers.
I like the site. However I do wish there were more CSS Design/layout techniques.
Cool stuff! Don't see myself needing this in Javascript though.
IBM creates first high-density, self-assembled carbon nanotube computer chip
A small, square cloth or net covers the balloon. Each kid holds a string attached to a corner of the net. If just one kid lets go of a corner, the balloon rolls out of the net and into the sky.
I think the iMac "thin" hype was in part a setup to the iPad mini reveal. "See how thin the iMac is...see how thin the iPad is...oh look there's an iPad mini hiding behind there!"
Ask HN: YC application Mobile First Demo
What is the best way to submit a demo for a mobile first company whose app is not yet live in the Apple Store?
Looks cool, but is it really any different from CodePlayer?
http://thecodeplayer.com/
yes, pretty sure there where predefined marks to place it perfect for the video. if you look closely you'll see how Schiller looks to a monitor and corrects the angle slightly.

It's just a little detail in opinion, but it shows how staged all those presentations are and you can't blame amazon for doing the same.
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Well, right now their yield is only 70% of the transistors, so effectively 0 for chips. Improving that is probably the biggest research breakthrough still remaining.
Steve Jobs’ custom, aluminum-hulled super-yacht “Venus” now seaworthy
Yes!!!

I will be testing this, thanks for the link.
How  to Get New Customers
So in the interest of civility you call someone -- in essence -- a dupe and unpaid shill and quote the word "fanboy" in criticizing his/her comments. If this is civility, let's go back to simply insulting each other instead of making a pretense of civil discussion.

You then go on to provide evidence in the form of asserting that everything Apple says is "just plain BS" and go on to quote things you assert Apple frequently says which are either (a) not things Apple says or (b) general purpose unassailable and unverifiable claims (best, most comfortable, happiest, etc.).

"Disingenuous" means "lying while pretending to be sincere" versus merely lying -- the key component is hypocrisy. The classic example is when almost anyone starts a sentence with "Well, to be honest..." Another example would be making references to a thread on civility while blatantly insulting someone.

Amazon quoting Gizmodo is disingenuous. The rest of the ad is simply Amazon highlighting the good bits of their product against the correspondingly inferior bits of the rival product.

The fact that Amazon has failed to update its "fastest WiFi of any tablet" graph (despite clearly having updated it since the iPad mini was launched) might also be construed negatively.

A similar ad from Apple would probably discuss size of app library, iOS vs ???, camera quality, size, weight, thinness, and quote professors, school teachers, and reputable reviewers.

Apple claiming their OS is the best in the world is at worst lying and most likely actually what they believe. (Most Mac users probably believe it, even if they recognize that no OS is perfect, right?)
Soon there will be more App.net users than clients. I'm not judging, I still have to decide if I consider this good or bad, it's just interesting.
Two things which I remember having a significant impact on the amount of 'collaboration':

Marking against the other members of the class. I remember one project where the performance of the code was under test and the fastest 30% got an A, the next fastest 10% got a B etc. There was little incentive to help anyone else beyond the most naive implementation.

Group projects, avoid the problem of collaboration by openly encouraging it. Also has the benefit of improving the real life skills everyone will need. Allowing members of the group to rate other members makes it obvious when someone has simply ridden on the coat tails of the other members of the group.
How is this editor "vim-inspired"?
Has a vim-like editing language? (not just shortcuts, but combinable verbs, objects and modifiers)
Has different modes? (normal or command, editing, ...)
Is very extensible?
I don't see any of those in the video, and they are vim's most important features (especially the first one).
for those that would like to play, raspberrypi.org has a mirror with the latest-to-release RC5: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/riscos/riscos-2012-1...
I tried, but I found that I can't really identify with the plights of some. Thankfully (for reasons I'd rather not be challenged to justify, except to say that it's apparently good as measured by others) I'm a fairly normal white guy with no marginal traits that might cause me to have different viewpoints than I currently do.

This means that I support the notion real names on Google Plus, and I also believe that all speech should be free, but that you should also have the courage to attach your name to it. Yes, I understand that there are reasonable circumstances in which that would not be ideal, but perhaps due to my aforementioned luxury of being a 'normal' white male, I am ignorant to how much they would matter in real life. I am neither queer nor gender-queer, so while I am empathetic to their struggles, I just can't identify with what are possibly very real concerns about losses of anonymity, and as I've met people who are public with their genderqueer status who haven't been assailed or assaulted, I can't help but wonder if the fear isn't simply perceived fear or not.

Regardless, aside from that (which again, I empathy with, but cannot relate to) the only other thing I took issue with in the article was the categorization of the autonomous vehicle as a 'geek toy'. It isn't, and that marginalizes an entire category of technology that has a very real possibility of changing the world in a very positive way to 'something SV types are wasting money on', which I take issue with.
Exactly, look at it this way... How many yachts did they make WITHOUT getting a thank you note?
Or maybe the threads are crossed over the top of the balloon.
It's nearly impossible to compare raw specs when Apple is making their own chips. Android devices have had more cores and more Hertz than the iPhone for years, but only recently have they been able to start matching the iPhone in performance… that's that was entirely because of faster software.
No they are not in the actual definition - but they use the font rendering technology that enables ligatures; a new vector that replaces certain char combinations.
you can do ad-hoc distribution, can't you? I do not remember really good, maybe you needed the device UID?
There's a firefox addon that fixes it: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/google-search-li...
My first thought exactly!

To claim that Zynga employees were taken advantage is like claiming that the bankers were taken advantage of during the 2008 collapse.

If you don't like your employer, find another one! These guys work in San Francisco, plenty of jobs to go around.
Speaking as a longtime Apple user, Steve Jobs fan, blah blah -- that is one butt ugly boat (it's hard to imagine Steve Jobs signing off on the chrome bit), and an iPod Shuffle as a gift does seem kind of lame. Surely an iPod Nano at least.

(Heh, maybe it would have been a nano if they'd figured out how to get rid of the chrome thing.)
Where does the extra $50 go for shipping?
This is a really great game. Haven't seen anything like this before.
Why are you making it all so difficult

<script>
window.location = 'http://example.com';
</script>

Redirected.

Its not a bug, its a feature. What you should be worried about is what http://www.example.com can do, can it execute arbitrary code, post to facebook/twitter etc.?
A/B Testing Scale Cheat Sheet
I think it is the wrong question. As Seth Godin says in his talk at TEDxYOUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc "if something is worth remembering it is worth looking up." Tests should be open note, open book, all the time. If you can cheat on the test just by googling the question, the right question isn't being asked. It is time we ask our students to start thinking critically and not just have them bubble in memorized facts on a scantron.
Of course cost of living estimates are just for singles and couples without children. Add a kid or two and the cost of living differences will become more pronounced.
The balloon will go in unstable equillibrium in this case.
I think his love of minimalist Bauhaus design really shines through here. Not my cup of tea, but then I like furniture in my house, too :)

I remember reading his bio and wondering what this looked like--apparently it was his last big personal project that he was trying to get done before he died. It looks very Jobs-ian to me, kind of like a Star Trek spaceship landed in the water.
Hey pat, how do you understand the internal code so well ? I read your free chapter on Ruby's Hash table and I loved every bit of it. It would be great if you can share the process you go through when you read the source code, so maybe I can apply it in the future. By the way, congrats for the release !
WORLD WAITS
I seem to remember some recent articles on phishing indicating that the assailants are not targeting the brightest among us but rather those easily fooled. While this technique is alarming to those who know the mouse-over technique I doubt this will apply for your average "mom and pop" phishing scheme.
"According to Bob, short copy performs better when there is low perceived risk, low cost, and low commitment. Also, when the customer has an emotional, impulsive, and “want-oriented” motivation. In other words, if you’re looking to write high-impact copy for concert tickets, designer shoes, or mp3 players…keep it short.
Bob states that long copy is the better performer when there is a rational, analytical, need-oriented motivation. Think consumer insurance products or many complex B2B offerings."

http://conversionxl.com/4-cases-where-short-home-pages-outpe...
World's Fastest Supercomputer is Truly a 'Titan'
Its a gift of gratitude. They came over and acknowledged the work of the persons who build this boat. They could have sent someone to pick it up.

How would you feel when you finish a multi-year multi-million project for a client and they would send someone over to thank you for everything and even handing out some gift. (this rarely happens in our industry)

As it does matter how much they paid for it the company made a lot of money of this, so did the worker. And you dont sell Yachts like hotdogs on the street. From your comment i would suspect they had to come and hand over 10k+$/person for doing their day job?