skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, it is common to just dismiss concerns without addressing them.

That's human nature. I used to put a lot of effort into Tcl, including revamping John Ousterhout's book:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2009/09/15/tcl-and-the-tk-toolkit...

But Tcl became increasingly untenable commercially, and a number of years ago I jumped into Ruby on Rails quite enthusiastically. It does things mostly the 'right' way in my opinion. However, while I like it, it's not "mine" in the way Tcl was, and I stepped back and started looking at everything in a more critical, but also more open way and have been a lot more inclined to call a spade a spade, even with the languages I like:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716838

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4716890

But coming back to it, that attitude of "if Tcl doesn't do that, it doesn't really matter, and maybe not doing that is a good thing anyway" is prevalent in language flame warriors of all stripes, and, in my opinion is something to be avoided: if you can't look at yourself honestly, you won't improve.
You have tools to help you find mismatches in Python. I agree that maintaining a large code base in Python (or Ruby) is harder, but it's possible and is mainly a question of discipline and process.

If a strong language can be used to eliminate most errors and improve productivity, I see it as an asset to a startup.

Most startups projects I've seen are technically trivial.
Turing 2012 - A tribute to a great scientist
Uh, really?

Not developing for a completely unproven platform, where most users are served perfectly fine by the existing web app, isn't "foolish," it's a good use of resources.
Good old 1600x1200, here it goes:

http://www.laptopmax.com/HP/reviews/34/HP_Compaq_NC8000_revi...
Mouahah, more pixel nonsense. Yeah, sure, put this resolution on a 11' screen, and have a sluggish GPU handle what's moving on screen on a 300-400$ laptop.

This is nonsense. You need pixels to a certain amount to have a good looking picture, but the benefit of having way larger resolutions is like a log curve: it stagnates as you go up and up, since you would notice the pixels less and less.

I am surprised to see Linus making this kind of claim, he used to be more practically-focused. Now he sounds like a marketing guy from Apple.

I say, why stop at 2560 * 1600. This is ridiculously low. Make 10 000* 7000 the new standard laptop resolution. Yes, we can. Tomorrow, please. Even if the capacity and the plants to make it do not exist, yet.

BS if I ever see it.
Sadly, Torvalds is wrong:

>Christ, soon even the cellphones will start laughing at the ridiculously bad laptop displays.

They've been beating the pants off of them for some time now.
Do you get Just-in-time compilation?
Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that's the way debian used to do it then, I know there's been a lot of movement on hardfloat support.
Pfft. I run a 27" 2560x1440 display on Intel HD4000 all the time. I don't know where your comment is coming from, but in case you didn't read the post, the technology is here. The tablets, you know, with these 2560x1440 screens, have GPUs that power them. Meaning the technology is available and could (ought) to be in laptops as well.
I don't know what oneandoneis2 meant. But I suppose what font size is decent might depend a little on the resolution.
I searched for "teaching chess children" and twitter came up as the 6th best match, which makes me wonder a bit at the search algorithm used.
+1000!
I've been more and more bothered by that shit "gears" theme, too.
High CPU usage, cannot be viewed without javascript capable/enabled etc. Sometimes I get the feeling the google devs are being replaced by retarded monkeys.
Dell has had a number of them over the years, one I remember was the Latitude D820 (15.4", with a 1920x1200 option) back in 2006 but I know they had such offers before as a colleague had one in 2005.

I'm not sure they offer WXUGA screens anymore though, it seems everyone has nerfed back to "full HD" (which offers 120 vertical pixels less) these days, which is bullshit. Since 2010 (when this trend started), the interwebs have been full of people trying to find out manufacturers who still provided WXUGA screens.
Yes, for the moment. LTE will be standard in a couple of years time & by then voice over LTE will (hopefully) so we won't need the ridiculous hack of falling back to the 3G connection for voice with it's negative effects on battery life.

Until then, LTE is for those who have to have the latest thing, regardless of price or who actually need the data rates achievable with LTE and have coverage where you're likely to be using it.
Exactly. Most people think that SEO spam is something that is only done by shady eastern european viagra-selling rings. In reality, the worst offenders are multi-billion dollar companies which capitalize on the strength of their domains to bloat the index with countless pages of keyword-rich fluff.
I'm hoping they are the first test of Stripe in the UK..... Maybe....

I will admit I checked to see if they were using stripe.js but they're not.
68 Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists Endorse President Obama’s Science Policies
Posting with a 500 point bounty still does wonders. I once had a guy write a patch to the mercurial DVCS (small, but still) to answer a question.

Of course you have to wait for two days before you can offer a bounty.
You won't be able to scroll properly in an e-ink display. Either you will code page by page or it will refresh every time you try to scroll
> But the biggest reason of using haskell for me, was the way it handles concurrency and the high abstraction level.

Anyone care to point to something online that spells these out in (simple) details for someone who knows next to nothing about Haskell?
Kickstarter launched in the UK
Who wouldathunk that doing LSD could turn someone into a complete asshole with no regard for an open culture and a penchant for superficial things which don't matter in the least (like one button devices)?
Now that windows 8 and mountain lion both for the first time credibly handle HiDpi I agree, it's about time we switched. But laptop makers are hardly to be roundly chastised for not going super density until now (though higher than 1386x was always workable) since the windows experience of hidpi was pretty broken. Fonts would get clipped inside too small bounding boxes, things wouldn't line up, chroming would be too small and so on.

Now all we need is linux to credibly support it as well, or at least a linux built for mouse use. There are still many, many usability issues in gnome with a high ppi screen.

Also, lets not forget how far mobile gpus have come in the last few years, it would have been impossible to push that many pixels with anything but the most minimal of 3d use cases.

It's a much more complex problem than linus would suggest by simply having oems switch panels. Witness how relatively complicated apple's solution is, which came after years of supposedly "somewhat" supporting hidpi. Use the hidpi macbook pro at 1920x on the ivy bridge gpu and it's still noticeably laggy at some 3d operations.
Very few devices run stock Android, the Nexus series being the exception. I was referring to one of the most popular Android tablets, Amazon's Kindle Fire.

However, since Android comes with Flash, you're likely to see more ads than on other platforms, even if you use a Nexus device.
It’s really easy to forget that the only reason you have these swathes of free time is because your life is funded by a student loan (which is usually the cheapest credit you’ll ever get in your life).
New App Store Advertising and Marketing Guidelines - Rigid and Stringent
In pitch clearly, but not in raw resolution yet (except maybe the 4.7 inchers, not sure about those).

But they're inching closer and closer, the standard android resolution is 720p which is only a step away from the "standard" bullshit 1366x768 laptop standard.
The UK too. What's the options for those not eligible? The fact that these nationalities are excluded from this visa and that there are a large-ish number of such nationals currently resident in the US suggests that there is some legit route available.
I was recently asked for laptop buying advice. I told them that if they're going to be using it more than casually, then prioritise the screen over everything else; Minimum 1080p IPS screen. I was shocked that here were less than a 5 models (that you can buy new) out there that fit the bill. Such a sad state, I expected that to be the starting off point.
Dropbox synchronizes your files everywhere instantly. Bit Chest archives your files and you download them only when you need them.

This makes it practical for storing large amounts of data, like a 1TB picture archive (like I do).
Some years ago, I was showing of my Nexus One to my sister, and she was so impressed with the voice to text that she exclaimed "Wow! Can Google really do that?". The resulting text from Google was "Yes we can. Google is amazing. :-)"

Never been able to reproduce it though.
Convert Word to PDF with Same Data, Formatting & Objects in the Cloud
Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the conversion of word files to PDF using Saaspose.Words REST API. PDF files gained quite much fame among various other file formats due to its reliable, secure and compatible features. There might be scenarios where you want to convert word files to PDF in your applications. Saaspose.Words, a REST based API provides simple and quick methods of converting Word to PDF in the cloud. You can convert to PDF from Word in no time with quality results and efficient performance.
Having read this very carefully, I can't see how quantum mechanics as I always understood it can ever be either non-local or break relativity. The following was probably written down by someone else a long time ago, but I don't know by who or when.

When you entangle two systems, they have to actually be in the same place/with slower-than-light communication distance. Thus, they each store "secret" information in some deterministic way which is impossible to measure directly, and which we can probe only using repeated experiments and probability distributions. The idea is that while quantum systems are deterministic just like mechanical ones, they hide their determinism in black boxes whose mechanisms it is impossible to discover. The "uncollapsed waveform" has in fact been collapsed ahead of time, you just don't know what the answer is until you measure.

Back to our entangled particles, when you separate them the determined decision they made when they were together is revealed. They do not need to communicate, as they already have their story straight.

It seems this entire area of research is a misnomer - if you let the prisoners talk to each other just after arrest, of course their stories will be complimentary later, even if one is in Alcatraz and the other in Siberia. You just have to assume that particles so small we can only "see" them in the way they interact with other particles have some internal structure/state that we also can't see, and thus like the prisoners, can remember the story.

(of course, declaring an entire area of research irrelevant is usually a sign that I've missed the point wildly - if anyone would like to correct my mistake I'd be interested to hear!)
Microsoft provides standardized terminology collection in different languages, which is useful for UI translators
http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Terminology.aspx (e.g. it's useful to know whether Microsoft translates "Start" button to Russian as "Старт" or "Пуск" -- without knowing the exact term, most translators will probably choose the former, while MS uses the latter).

I guess this app wants to provide similar collection, but for Apple's terminology.
Can somebody explain what is so bad about seeing individual pixels? Serious question from an oldschooler.
Ohh, I have exactly this one unusable because of a dead motherboard at home.
Well, the OP has picked a completely arbitrary cutoff time, thus making any numbers obtained virtually meaningless. As suggested elsewhere, use the median and quartile ranges for non-normal distributions.

I doubt it's a troll, I'm sure it's well intentioned.
Remember Google has no incentive to get you to upgrade your phone, Apple does.
After having bought an SSD a couple of years ago I can honestly say it is at the top of my requirement list (after internet connectivity, but it's basically impossible to buy a computer that can't connect to the internet) for all my computers, easily above memory and screen resolution.
Android has not come with flash since Jelly Bean: Adobe long since stopped supporting it and it's absolutely not available on the Nexus 7 unless you sideload some legacy APK.
Well, but it's not like AWS didn't have its share of downtime in the last couple of weeks. Back then the recommendation of the arm-chair-admins was to move to dedicated hardware you own. Oh the irony.
Free clean and usable UI PSD kits
"You have full control over how much information you give Google when you use the device."

You don't even have control over how much information you give Google when you use their search engine on a desktop computer. Even if you sign out of Google, turn off cookies and use a browser without geolocation. Google will always continue gathering information about you and providing you with custom search results.

But even if you could turn off all data collection, the vast majority of users won't know about it. As a result, they pay Google by sharing their personal information, their interests, their location, their contacts, etc. Google's core business is advertising, they can't help themselves.
One obvious takeaway is that consumer websites should begin deploying large, modal pop-up AUPs. Perhaps simplify their essential attributes to become both clear and defensible.
http://apache.org/server-status
If he is suggesting that he is flat out wrong.

There are quite a few free apps that use ads as a way of supporting themselves but the OS has no ads itself. And you can almost always purchase premium versions of the apps that remove the ads as well.

Not to mention with Android there is the possibility of using something like AdAway
> Most startups projects I've seen are technically trivial.

may be this is due to the fact that technically non-trivial problems aren't easily solved by startups, who might tend to choose a technology thats easy to use (such as php/ruby), but makes it difficult to solve the technically non-trivial problems with the same degree of ease?

I m just guessing here having no real insight.
Meh.

> The IBM T220 and T221 are LCD monitors with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels (WQUXGA) on a screen with a diagonal of 22.2 inches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

This was back in 2001, the screen ran off of a G200 (which was bundled with the T220) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox_G200). A "modern" IGP is perfectly able to drive desktop and desktop application at that resolution (hell, an eyefinity card supports 6 screens to at least 1920x1200 in 3x2 configuration, that's a total resolution of 5760x2400... and you can play games on that)
True; the LaPlace restaurant in the library is not bad at all either.

I just assumed he would find that anyhow, but that he might miss Vapiano as you need to get out of the building for that.

I just also remembered; if you want a good view the SkyLounge a few buildings down has an amazing view. It's a bit expensive but very nice.
I think I can top that. I saw a photo in a newspaper a few years ago with the Dalai Lama walking through a crowd. People were reaching out to shake hands with him and he was shaking hands with one girl in the crowd who, rather than looking at him was looking at the screen of the phone she was using to take a photo of him shaking her hand.
Imagine a world where dozens of open networks are available at your fingertips
Simon Peyton Jones had a talk with a very nice overview of concurrency in Haskell. He is a very good presenter as well :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlyQjK1qjw8
"The only other active computer in the house is my home server and internet gateway; a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and a dialup modem."

Everything else maybe... but I could never go back to dialup!
Reflections on Sandy
I can't wait until people doing start-ups realise that design should come first. Not only the aesthetics, but making it usable. Most start-ups I've worked for say they wished they had hired me when they had started, because there are so many problems that good design can solve.

I would place most emphasis on hiring a designer or find a design co-founder. The more common option, is a technical founder with a understanding of good design/usability, that seems to get you quite far too.
If I'm not mistaken, this is a very thin veneer of science applied to a thick spread of dogma.

1. Test shows that smart subject is smart (capacity to learn, etc).

2. Subject of the test says meditation makes you happy.

3. The author then tries to make science say meditation makes you happy: 'It is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.'
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New Mac Pros won't be out till the end of next year, and no one knows what these are going to be. If Apple made a cheaper Mac (sans the 'Pro') with current high-end consumer components I would seriously consider it, but I can't hang-on another year playing wait and see and there isn't really anything tying me down to OS X anymore except Adobe CS. I guess what they think I need is the iMac, but it is too much of a compromise for me. I own a 2009 iMac, and I never really considered it a 'desktop'. It is a screen with a laptop stuffed inside it and it shows; I can't even watch YouTube 720p without the fans coming on full. I am tired of compromising on speed and power for just OS X and nice aesthetics, so I simply will not consider an iMac over a custom built PC for the sole advantage of having a 5mm edge. Building something myself means I get a ludicrously powerful i5 desktop with GTX 680, 16GB ram, 256gb SSD, 1TB HDD, Thunderbolt, USB 3, and a nice IPS monitor for around $1500. I am super happy they made the iPhone/iPad as I own both and the industry needed it, but I do think it has drawn their focus away from the desktop and it is much lower as a priority. Not saying they are going to abandon the desktop line tomorrow however I struggle to believe it will still be around in 5-10 years; I don't want to carry on investing in a low priority OS and Linux is much more mature than it used to be. I am probably in the 10-20% of computer users that Apple doesn't cater to, so I don't think they will lose sleep over it.

- Edited for clarity.
weird, we have a kindle fire and it doesn't show us any special ads. and i've never noticed flash ads being especially present on the galaxy tab. it sounds to me like you're trying to talk with authority about things you haven't used and don't really have much perspective on.
The Nexus comes, by default, with google as a search engine, google mail as the mail client, google maps as the map engine.

This is something that google pays organizations like Mozilla, and Apple, hundreds of millions of dollars to have on their browsers.

The vast majority (95%+) of people take the default search engine and map engine that comes with their tablet/smart phone. Google is willing to take a loss on the 5% who might decide to use some other system (though, given that google makes pretty good mapping and searches, there is a better than average chance those 5% will stick with google anyways)

That's why google is willing to sell a tablet for $200 that others might have to sell for $250 or $275 in order to make a profit - they don't have the search engine revenue.
Isn't apple's bundled terminal retina-aware?
Intermec introduces the CK3 Next Generation Series of mobile computers
Here's the same query with Perl and Python added:

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/83730

Python comes in at 34, halfway between Java and Ruby, and Perl at 45, between Haskell and Scala.
Fonts are clearer and, assuming your vision is up to the task, you can fit more on the screen.

Other people may have other reasons for higher density displays, but those are mine.
Thats true, but I rarely found the tension between the brute capabilities of the language, the number of geniuses working on the language and the failure at communicating about it as big as in the Haskell community. Its full of gems waiting to be used, but sometimes I have the impression that many practical problems are seen as downright mundane in some circles there. I really hope for a second coming in that regard.

Amen to your opinion about language flame wars (and this wasn't intended as a flame).
Just like they don't have an official Windows 7 app...
SSD on my MacBook Air is the one thing that has made more of a difference than anything else.

I can live with only running four or five major apps at a time in the 4 Gigabytes that came with my 2010 MacBook Air - but the SSD changed my life. I'd put that on your list above memory.
The fact that Lua isn't very much used will get you less users. I feel like something like JavaScript would've been more appropriate for this kind of thing.

Maybe you should allow different languages? Lua is quite similar to JS, so you can probably port the same API to it, or other languages?
The brand new 1700€+ 1080p 17" Dell XPSes around me at work barely manage to get 2h idling. For my colleagues it's basically an embedded UPS, while my MacBook Pro still handles 5+ hours after three years.

Like my MBP, Retina Macs still have 7 hours of battery, so I don't see the landscape changing much: many laptops, retina-class or not, cheap or not, will get crappy battery life, and a few will get it right.
Unmasked Reddit user got his due
Find an American to marry.
What is even more sad is that about 4 years ago resolution of average new desktop TFT was higher than today.
His not the only one to think so:

http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/where-are-the-high-...

And about every other hacker I know.
Jelly Bean is the latest version of Android. Only 1.8% of Android devices run Jelly Bean. Most new Android devices being sold today do not run Jelly Bean and will very likely come with Flash.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Adobe stopped supporting Flash for Android 2 months a go, hardly an eternity.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/260901/android_flash_player_r...
TBH I'm not sure if I want 2560x1600 yet if there is going to be a significant drop in battery life. I have an IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great. Fonts already go smaller than I can reasonably see for programming - I can't imagine a higher resolution would materially improve my workflow.

Personally I'd like to see a higher refresh rate. Even with triple buffering I don't think that horizontal scrolling is smooth enough. I'd love to have a 120hz laptop screen. The new Windows 8 start screen, and switching between workspaces in Linux would be so much nicer. Still it's not exactly necessary, just a nice to have.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think it looks really ridiculous with it's hump. But you don't see the hump on the normal Apple pictures.
Yes, but Google has incentives to display ads. Which is the lesser of 2 evils?
This is great and I will use it right up until it starts showing ads. I really hope Google can find another income stream because ads are a deal breaker for me. The first time Google maps dropped two pins on a location search, one an ad, was the last time I used Google maps.
In practice, I'm not seeing it as a problem. It's a bit like C++ in that you can safely ignore all but a subset of the functionality. The problem is that everyone picks a different subset. :)

I'd say the compiler speed is still the biggest problem, and they're working on it.