skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That gives me interesting sci-fi imagery. That would be a cool setting for a pirate/blackmarket trade.
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I would argue that manufacturing isn't real work. The "closer you are to the money", the more decisions you are making. That's where the value is.
Has anyone done disk benchmarks on the built-in NAND of either the RT or Pro? I've really gotten used to the performance difference between modern SATA SSDs and spinning disks, I'd hate to buy a surface and get performance of the bad old days.
Wow. Staples would be the last place I'd guess disruption coming from for the 3d printing industry.

Now when can I download a pirated schematic of an iphone and send it off to staples to get a fully working product.
Agreed (unless you exchange the keys in a way that is traceable by honeypot owners).
What I'd like to understand is why governments in any country that isn't the US would agree to any of this stuff. I think that's the real question here.
I'm from Bolivia and I'm curious if anyone from my country is there. Algun Boliviano por ahi? :)
I was curious about the price of MCOR IRIS printer mentioned and found this:

The Mcor IRIS can be ordered today through Mcor’s worldwide reseller network for December delivery
at €11,300 (£10,200 or $15,866 USD), the manufacturer’s suggested retail price per year for the three-
year Free D plan. The unique Free D plan includes machine use, free materials and service, and reflects
Mcor’s commitment to unfettered innovation – encouraging access to and use of powerful 3D printing technology. Instead of discouraging use through expensive consumables, the company rewards use with a flat price.

http://www.mcortechnologies.com/mcor-technologies-announces-...
If you want to rapidly iterate on a design this simply isn't going to work. Waiting a day between versions greatly limits the usefulness of this service.
It's interesting that THQ stock is +20% since the bundle went live, in addition to about +20% earlier today, before the bundle. It's climbing sharply now.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATHQI
This makes little sense. Ordering a 3D model online is easier, they ship it to your door (and it's probably cheaper).
Radio tagged Sharks teach us their migratory patterns.
I've ran Linux on probably 15 different Dell laptops over the past 10 years. My current is a Precision M6500. It has a 15" LCD at 1920x1200. Probably something like that available now.

I don't really use it mobile very often, but everything works well enough. I always get a discrete Nvidia video card and use their proprietary driver.
This seems to be about value to the advertiser. There is no value in advertising for most of its victims, or for the world in general.
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Good catch, that is a major point to me. There is still no reason for them to have stores as a business. They are basically a direct competitor with XYZ internet 3D printer.

If they have any success at all, it is meaningless to their bottom line because Amazon and everyone else will be joining in.

[Edit] [Deleted]: "only less convenient since you need to go to the store to pick it up instead of it just being on your door when you get home."
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What feature distinction is there for cloud storage? You upload bits and later download the same bits.
Well true. I was thinking about the unglued paper that is cut away from these during the creation process though.
Honest question, are there any well known start-ups that have come out of the Start-Up Chile program?
Price wars this never ends well, where have I seen this before...?
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Excellent point.

I really like the idea getting of an e-reader, but if I do, I will ONLY buy DRM-free content. I will do this with the understanding that I'm responsible for backing up my books.

If I did understand the book to be licensed and DRMed, I would demand that my "rental" be labeled as such as come with a guaranteed period of availability via re-download.
Sure, some people who are trapped in XP at work might care, but do you really care that you don't get IE10?

You still have decent browsers to choose from (Firefox, Opera and older versions of Chrome if you can find them).

To better explain my point - if you care about which browser you're using, you're probably not pining for IE.
You mean always ends well?
>It doesn't matter how hot, strong, or brilliant you are, if you have zero kids, from an evolutionary perspective ... it's the same as if you were killed and eaten by some wild animal.

I don't agree with that 100% (the same as just dying part), solely because of the technology and globalization that we currently live with. Even if you don't have children, by simply starting a business where you employ many people, you're essentially providing a means to life for others. If your business is successful, you will have brought life to others via work for possibly generations(which essentially means others can provide a life for themselves and their families). I know that's a bit of a reach, but it's probably true to a small extent, at least in first world countries. Hundreds of years ago, I completely agree with you.

We live in a world where your work can potentially impact billions of people. Sure, you may not reproduce, but you may have enabled many others to do so.
I've been 'around' static analysis a decent amount in the past 10 months or so, and my conclusion is that the deep solution is ML/Haskell/etc, not static analysis.

Writing in C/C++ is like asking to be shot in your foot. So you get static analysis, which gives you a modicum of help.
This article is making the issue much more complicated than it needs to be, and is trying to invent fancy buzzwords and nonsense like "candidate experience."

The fundamental problem is that job interviews are traditionally structured in such a way that the candidate is trying out for the position. It has a built in assumption that the candidate wants the job and is trying to convince the company that they are the right person. Thus, interview processes are usually about evaluating the candidate.

Candidate evaluation and filtering is necessary. There are a lot of people out there trying to get hired who are lying and faking their skills. See the people who can't do fizzbuzz. However, the overall situation is that demand for these technical skills far exceeds the supply. That means that when someone passes through your filters, you need to severely limit your evaluation of them. Instead, you need to sell them. The talent has the upper hand. They probably already have a job, and can get one anywhere. If you want them to work for you, you need to be in sales mode, not interview mode.
well , it's not the kind of brewery one wants to ingest ,but yeah , i hear you ;)
Perhaps iTunes 11 needs to index your library over again before the speed improves?
do you know of a price comparison of s3 alternatives (not ec2)?
It would be nice to have NFS. And it would be nice to attach an EBS volume to multiple VMs simultaneously (with SCSI reservations, natch).
How can they drop their prices by 30% and still make anything? I was under the impression that the margins for S3 and Cloud Storage weren't that high.
Particularly given that HN has built into it both community convention (use the [1], [2], [n] as footnote placeholders for a link, and, the site itself, is pretty good about abbreviating the "In-Situ" display to reduce visual link clutter (Mouse over gives you the full link for review)
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However this does make the service that much more visible. I'm not sure that 3D printing is that well known yet. Also, dealing with a B&M establishment provides some with additional assurances that they may not have with an online-only business.
This is the first time I've funded a project on Kickstarter.
I think it's more than a minor nitpick. The appeal of 3D printing is that you get the end result quickly.
Flaws like this arise from trying to be too clever with syntax. Function application with parentheses, literal regular expressions without clear delimiters, etc. Syntax should be describable in a handful of universal rules. Lisp is the extreme in this regard, the rule is simply: parentheses nest properly. But you can build surprisingly rich syntax with a simple set of rules so long as you lay out those rules first and conform the syntax to them as you go.
'common law' countries, not 'democratic' countries.
Yes, I really didn't know that — it had never come up for me. It sounds like it's mostly really useful with games and similarly rendering-intense applications, which I don't use.
I am fond of design questions, both on the receiving and asking end. I drill down until you take a branch that I would distinctly choose not to. Then I press you for reasons. E.g., why would you write your web app in C++?

edit: Note that someone who is genuinely very close to me in opinions won't challenge me in ways that really produce a useful diversity of opinion. They would, however, likely agree with my sense of strategy and tactics; this might lead to a collective blindspot where a deeper problem is overlooked. Being able to professionally disagree and then work together to form a final result is very important.
With threaded Apache (mpm_worker), I have a huge keepalive set.

It's great for an ajax-heavy site, especially when it's all behind SSL. Using a CustomLog I log total request time, from connection time to the request has been served (conditional log when the request is handled by the backend) and I can see it's halved since I could use the threaded Apache.

Currently I have 100 threads per Apache process, and ~20 of them handling 2000 idle connections. I'm sure this can be tweaked some more.

Apaches manages SSL etc. and just proxies to my application servers.

There's also an event-based Apache module which I haven't tried.
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Your comment seems to presume that complaints are meant for venting dissatisfaction rather than encouraging HiB not to do this again.
Did not realize that. How depressing :-(
My travel kit already includes a Mac :) I've ran Linux on them in the past (not since 2008 though), and always felt that it wasn't the best match.
Well, look at the article. It's written by a young guy who essentially consulted for this company for free for 5 months. I'd argue South Florida has it right: startups are absurdly glamorized right now, and in a region where everyone (everyone!) hustles to get by, the engineers know fronting when they see it.

Why do engineers go to startups? Cool technology, interesting problems, more autonomy, and the slim chance of a big payoff. Startups in South Florida apparently have none of these. I've told Mike Greenberg (and you too, I think?) as much about the tech meetup culture down there: you won't have strong technology culture without strong technology. RefreshMiami and a Rails meetup won't cut it.

Besides, why quit your corporate engineering job for a startup when you're making $80k+ in a city where money is everything?
I am using a 17" Sony Vaio Z series with and SSD and 1920x1080 screen for a long time. Quite happy with everything. Sony laptops work better than expected with Linux, though this is by chance rather than Sony's support. Next I ll check one of the ultrabooks and Dell XPS Sputnik
interesting to see that what apperently matters most to prospective 3d printing users is the availability of a large color palette. I'm sure staples did extensive research and I believe future 3d printers will not spread into every household until the pieces can be colored in every way imaginable (even if it's just a last step surface paint).
This is a very difficult topic and there are plenty of thoughts and blog posts available online. The need for a lawyer probably depends on whether you intend to raise capital or just see it as a short term project? For bringing in new founders you should look at some sort of vesting agreement to vest founders over time.

For general equity-split, the calculator below is thought provoking: http://foundrs.com/

However generally with two founders a 50-50 split is best as both of you need to be 100% committed for it to work out.
The typing properly part of your recommendation becomes even more important now that so many of us are on laptops and CAN'T change the keyboard.
Is this the announcement Nasa was talking about, or is this unrelated?
Amazon is much more accustomed to operating a low-margin business than Google or Microsoft. Google's overall profitability can allow it to take bigger losses and subsidize its cloud services division if it wants to, but at some point, executives have to wonder if that's the most strategic use of those resources.

It's also not always the case that the leader competes on quality while the followers compete on price. In many industries, being the leader means you have infrastructure advantages and nobody can touch you on price, whereas others must serve smaller markets based on quality. Retail (both online and offline) is a good example. You'd be foolish to suggest that Amazon (the retail side) or Wal-Mart give up competing on price and let their smaller competitors take that mantle.
Yea, as best I know Amazon is the dominant player in this space, so they don't necessarily have to engage directly in price wars.
> I can't imagine what legal uses an individual could have for 100Tb of storage.

An example:

Raw captures (e.g., digitized home movies) can take up a lot of space, even if they're losslessly-compressed with a codec like Huffyuv or Lagarith.

I have five raw captures of the same 2-hour VHS movie sitting on my HDD, as I plan to average them to reduce the appearance of artifacts due to tracking differences. Each capture is losslessly-compressed with Huffyuv and approximately __50GB__.

That's ~250GB right there.
> The ThinkPad X1 Carbon was the only Ultrabook that compared at all favorably to the Air in reviews, and it costs something like $1450 versus $1140 for the Air. Thought about it. Couldn't justify the higher price.

This is not true. Lenovo (like pretty much every company except Apple) has regular discounts. You can easily get the ThinkPad X1 Carbon for a price comparable to the Air. Also, I would say that the X1 Carbon is better than the Air in many ways. You get a bigger screen, higher resolution, better keyboard, the TrackPoint, and a 3G SIM card slot.
You may have built up a huge arsenal of words, but it is still important to choose the ones that best get your point across to your intended audience, whether simple or complex. The real challenge is being understood, not using awesome words, and there are plenty of circumstances where the simple words will not be sufficient for what you are trying to do.
Yes, thanks to their vast operating profits from the cloud they have a P/E of ~3000.

Let's be generous and assume Amazon could push a button and run the rest of its business at break even, and that its revenues from the cloud are pure profit -- its P/E would only be somewhere between 50-70.
Interesting and important though those cases are, I can't help feeling that you're diminishing the consideration of today's news by surfing on it a bit for other examples.
See current HN discussion on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847720
It is quite clear what perpetually means in that sentence. Are you really trying to start an argument about semantics with a stranger on the Internet? Do you consider this the best use of your one finite lifetime?
You forget the other side, though. There are tons of people like my in-laws who used to get all sorts of malware thanks to IE, and once they switched to Firefox or Chrome no longer do. There's a pretty large group of non-technical people out there who have found not using IE makes their life more pleasant.
No, the announcement you had in mind is related to the findings from Curiosity on Mars.
It's all about perspective. 1day turnaround is very slow for software but extremely fast for hardware. In the harware world, high-quality parts turnaround in 1 day is revolutionary.
When I read this I realized that ministers have been using this tactic effectively for hundreds of years (if not more--I have only read from people from the last 400 years or so). I think this component is what is missing in my own presentations. I have never liked telling stories but maybe it is time to learn a new tactic.
I doubt people choose Google's Cloud Platform over Amazon based on price.
No, not always. A bitter race-to-the-bottom always seems to lead to feature cuts, reduction in quality, etc.

It is for this reason I prefer a nice, friendly, slow price war. I guess you could say the kind of price war where it is in fact a product war- price is only one of the many battles being waged.
The hyped announcement was about Mars, and hasn't been released yet.
I just don't understand what you're trying to save. It can't be or have a "perpetually unfixed problem" if it "everything work[ed]" at one point in time.

Besides, it's not like there was anything substantial there besides more hand waving old inaccurate stereotypes about linux.
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With the amount of money being raised, I hope this encourages them to do it all the time.
The only people who will switch are people/companies with a lot of data where it may be cost effective.

Most small developers will stay away from Google. Amazon offers a 12 month tier free. Google offers prices and terms that change with 30 days notice.

The AWS conference is still on with Jeff Bezos talking in half an hour. Anyone care to guess what his response to this may be?
"If a non-profit can keep on top of all the different codecs, profiles and containers, why can't Microsoft?"

Because Microsoft would actually be required to license every one of them that are possible to license legally.

The capability is certainly there, but the users will likely not pay for their availability. It'll be interesting to see how many users of Windows 8 do upgrade, in the case of DVD playback and the Media Center features.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/feature-packs
Thanks for the correction, my information is old. My friend in the XP days told me a company he worked with got licenses for something like 25 dollars each. I just did a google search and it looks like OEM prices have been rising and are much higher now.
Emily Lakdawalla has posted a good explanatory write-up, with more details on the methodology and background on the research, at the Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/1129120...
Form follows function, in my mind.
I've had positive personal experiences and anecdotes from others about the Intel Core i7.

I haven't seen a laptop that's expandable to 16GB. But I also don't usually look higher than the middle of the market when I'm laptop shopping, so you may be able to find one if you're willing to pay a paying premium price for it.

Don't be afraid of a machine with a too-small hard drive or memory. Upgrades for both are cheap. CPU, GPU, and monitor, on the other hand, are usually difficult or impossible to upgrade in a laptop.

If you don't have a specific use for a graphics card, consider going with a machine which only has integrated graphics. It will save you a lot.
What does "flagged off" mean? Where are you seeing the number of flags, and how are you concluding that flagging causes something to fall off the front page any faster than normal? AFAIK the front-page sorting has always been counter-intuitive.

You (and recoiledsnake) seem to make the exact same accusations on a very regular basis, but I'm not clear on how you're arriving at them.
I doubt it, it seems to be using the same plist format(essentially, a glorified xml file) as previous versions.
> It feels like we're on totally separate universes.

It does indeed. Never mind, it's happened before and will no doubt happen again. :-)

If all you're proposing is a coding convention, then I don't see why you're surprised/annoyed that the OP doesn't obey it; it's vanishingly rare. You're placing a significant structural constraint on your code that conveys only optional semantics, and ones that will apply to virtually no third-party code. Why not adopt a more rubyish convention and use bangs to denote methods that do have side-effects (c.f. String#gsub vs. String#gsub!)? This way you're not imposing any structural constraints on your code, only a minor naming restriction.

Re: refactoring, constructor params are only one possible change we might make. Our checker might store previously-seen content in an ivar, so that the first time it sees the content "hey sexy, why not call me?" it allows it to pass, but if it sees 1000 such messages in quick succession, it flags them as spam.

However: yes, changes to object instantiation will require changes to client code (although, as I pointed out earlier, it's easy to provide access to a default instance via a class method, providing both convenience and flexibility). In something other than a Rails application this would be mitigated using dependency injection, so that merely being a client of a particular object does not mean you have to know how to instantiate it. Unfortunately as Rails monopolises object construction for its own infernal purposes this isn't really possible, so you end up with unpalatable things like this knocking around all over the place:

class GuestBookEntry < ActiveRecord::Base
def spam_checker
@spam_checker ||= UserContentSpamChecker.new(...)
end
end

While not ideal, this at least localises changes to one site in each client class, and one whose concern is directly related to the change you're making.
Perfect. So it is, in fact, 43% thicker. Still pretty thin, but nice to know my eyes were not deceiving me.
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I'm new to coding but tried, and discovered I can indeed do Fizzbuzz. Thank you for a confidence boost :)

I can't help but feel so spoiled by the fact that I'm learning python which makes everything so darned easy. I suppose being able to do something in python isn't equivalent to being able to do it in other languages! Confidence eroded again!
While this had a happy ending, can you imagine an alternate universe where the founders for whatever reason decided not to hire the guy? Leading him on for several months, making him jump through hoops and then not hiring him would have been a huge waste of time and energy, esp considering they seem pretty disinterested through most of the process. People sometimes greatly undervalue the value of a polite 'no'.
> Google is basically telling Amazon: "You do not want to play this price-cutting game with us".

I hope both players go ahead and play. Let's see who wins.
I didn't say anything about social networks in general, just about Facebook's relationship with their users. I didn't mean to imply anything more than that.
"Victims"? Really? Come on, now - there's no need for that sort of hyperbole here, is there?
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Nice ... any chance of a 16 GB RAM model?
Likely a geektastic way of suggesting he likes to snort weed. Marijuana comes from the buds of female cannabis plants.
Whatever happened to Google's Don't be evil!
May be the effect died long back with all the law-suites against them.

Just nitpicking but the author is adding percentages when they clearly should not be.
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More precisely, people care most about signalling to others that they want to hurt pedophiles. People’s next highest priority is probably protecting children, and actually hurting pedophiles is lowest.
I would argue the exact opposite. Online printing turnaround time is slower, costs more(for printing in batches), and is inconvenient when UPS/Fedex keep leaving "sorry we missed you" notices because you're at work.