skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 2700+ from 10 years ago has been unusable for all but the simplest tasks for years. It would have also needed to be upgraded along the way - it came from the factory with just 256MB or 512MB RAM. You can still edit office documents and do some light web-surfing, but for todays interactive sites and content it falls far behind the experience that an iPad can provide.
Windows isn't dead or dying. Laptop and desktop form factors aren't seen as the primary or only way to interact with software anymore. Windows is the king of desktop and laptop machines (by volume). iPad is the king of tablet/touch computing. Android via cheaper tablets is taking the lower end. So, where does Windows live on touch devices? Does it go head to head with the iPad or Android? I don't think it has the apps or mindshare to do that.

Desktop and laptops are shrinking as the primary platform of computing, and with it Windows. Shrinking, not dying.
> What's a "quoted exchange price" if it's not the price you actually pay?

The mean of the bid and the ask, generally. For a daily close price it can be a fifteen-or-so minute average thereof.
No, there's not really any additional benefit to owning both if you're already buying IDEA. WebStorm's features are essentially a subset of IDEA's. They have a slightly different release schedule (WebStorm seems to be more frequent), but everything that gets added to WebStorm ends up in IDEA reasonably quickly.
You forgot the fact that riding one makes you look like a total geek, and not in a good way. Al Yankovic's song "White and Nerdy" captures the image perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
I make no apologies for Obama- he should have closed Gitmo.

Yet, there's one tiny tiny possibility that I have considered for why he hasn't. Before becoming president, you make promises, have goals, and overall think you know what you're going to do on day one.

However, after inauguration you go for your first big debriefing with the CIA, FBI, etc... The things you learn there completely change the course what you want to do, or can do. You find that we were constantly in significantly more danger than any citizen could have anticipated.

Now, I don't find this to be likely, but just something I've considered. Why in the world would have Obama gone from wanting to close Gitmo, to being pretty much against it? Politics alone don't seem to cover it, since pretty much everyone wants it closed. Logistics? It doesn't seem that hard...
I sympathize with your point of view. On the other hand, it seems like you could take your comment, replace "PC" with "mainframe" and "mobile" with "PC" and it would be right at home in 1975 or so.

It's interesting because the 1975 version of the comment would be absolutely right. The PC did herald the end of the mainframe as we knew it. Sure, they're still alive, sort of, but it's not like it once was. And yet, the transition ultimately ended up being wonderful. Maybe this new transition will be great as well. Let's hope so.
For more deliberate practice with possible intelligence-increasing side-effects, check out:

* http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ -DNB for improving working memory

* Lumosity ( http://www.lumosity.com/ ) -for improving other cognitive functions using simple games

* I've been doing literature review on operational techniques for mental enhancement methods ( https://plus.google.com/118216908575347364043 ) which you might intersting

* And for a better-suited community for the topic, you might want to cross-post this to http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/new/

Hope this helps!
Google has it cached:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0BKpgOg...
Does this mean it's time to lift the anti-monopoly restrictions on Microsoft and Windows?
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My statement that wars were started "without congressional approval" may be wrong. That said, I still do not believe that it's outside the president's power to shut down gitmo. As many other commenters here have pointed out, he could simply order marines to free those prisoners with no charges to Cuban soil; this would cost no money at all; congress would not be able to prevent it. Could the president not do this?

Furthermore, he promised to do so repeatedly during his campaign. Was the president, a constitutional scholar, merely mistaken about his powers as the executive?

I apologize for muddying the waters with discussion of other presidential actions.
Agreed, especially on #2. Let's have a new international war treaty that assigns basic human rights to all people
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I love how it says "but the numbers show that Windows is coming to a dead end". So where are the numbers for Windows sales in this article, I just see PC sales. Typical journalism.
A 25% recidivism rate is pretty good considering that many might have gone to the "battlefield" as payback for their improper imprisonment. Also, it is disingenuous to conflate terrorism with insurgency as both have different motivations and "scope of battlefield."

So-called insurgents were only a threat to local presence of Americans and not interested in sticking overseas or be a part of a broader movement against America. Just because they are fighting for their country from their perspective doesn't make it right to say they are the same as terrorists.

You also have to take into account for the loss of goodwill and reputation across the world for hosting Gitmo; particularly when it has possibly radicalized more people simply by having something to point to when a terrorist recruiter propagandizes about the 'evilness of the US' and the merits of attacking us.

Just to compare, a quick google search shows that the U.S. recidivism was around 70%. It might have improved or not since the study period, but it does perspective on the issue.

Source: http://bjs.gov/content/reentry/recidivism.cfm
Students don't choose colleges by their food or policies anyway.
I wish they had a C# IDE. I'm 100% OSX with Unity3d and I have to use Monodevelop for C#. I would much prefer to use a JetBrains product.
It might, if the article weren't so ridiculously overstated.
Don't leave out that you look like a complete dweeb riding one.
> I see a lot of graduate students complaining about how difficult it is to get hired into a Faculty position these days, how difficult it is to get research grants, how difficult it is to get published in a decent journal. Not to be TOO much of a grumpy old man, but like any highly skilled endeavour, __it should be difficult__. 10,000 hours and all that. (my emphasis).

If we're talking about should, then I think society should place more importance on research -- it provides significant long-term value to society -- and this should translate into more funding for research, and more research positions being available. That is, it should be easier to get a research position.
Here are the numbers I pulled:

AMAZON	$58,525.33	18-Oct-12

AMAZON WEB SERVICES	$144,955.12	5-Nov-12

AMAZON WEB SERVICES	$150,000.00	18-Dec-12
AMAZON WEB SERVICES	$150,000.00	18-Dec-12
AMAZON WEB SERVICES	$47,887.28	18-Dec-12
AMAZON WEB SERVICES	$135.75	18-Dec-12
>I disagree completely with his analysis on monads

You say that, but your post doesn't actually show disagreement. He said to avoid analogies, not avoid real code. His list of steps in fact contains "use monads in real code".
I'm not so sure. A Chromebook provides a significantly better experience than an iPad, at least for me and my wife.

Our iPad 2 is now almost exclusively the province of my toddler daughter.
No! Please don't waste yet another super genius on an advertising company.
Petition to prove the fact that Buddha was born in Nepal, Mt Everest is in Nepal
Ask HN: Will mobile apps eventually become obsolete?
As browser technologies become more sophisticated, do you think it's only a matter of time until locally installed apps will become obsolete? I'm not saying we're there yet, but do you think its inevitable?
Challenges of maintaining a rapidly changing code base - heelhook
This may be true of the Common Lisp community but the Clojure community seems to be very welcoming and I think one of the more exciting communities around today.
Just getting "Invalid result from WS" after selecting a private repo.

Also, the product tour really isn't very useful at three steps. Seems like a more streamlined 'onboarding' experience is what you are after.
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I can't handle infinity in my pocket
It will be interesting to see Apple's Mac sales numbers this quarter. Last quarter they were down close to 20% year-over-year.

My personal theory for some of the loss in sales is that PCs are lasting much much longer than they used to. I just recently retired a laptop after using it for 6 years and am still rocking a quad core PC that is over 5 years old. My earlier computers were replaced earlier.
Another movie analogy would be Next. Cris Johnson can see two minutes into the future and redo anything that has a bad outcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2007_film)
A decade is a bit much. I'll give you 5 years, but that's about it.
I have no experience in the financial industry, but HFT has always fascinated me as a potential source for very high rates of "events". Could you share your general insight about the sheer volume of data that commonly gets pushed through an HFT system? I'd also be terribly interested in a multi-megabyte/gigabyte "recording" of HFT trade data.

http://www.nyxdata.com/capacity
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It's not like he's getting full cooperation from congress on this.
Hi! I'm Jaime and me and my team built this.
Please bear with us since it's our first big opening on hacker news and our servers are kinda smallish.
If you can't register your projects don't worry as everything is recorded and I will try to personally attend every one. Eventually it will start analyzing.
Working non stop to serve you :)
The defendant microsoft still has enough market clout left to scorch the metaphorical earth and poison the well for the rest of the industry. I'm talking about SecureBoot of course.

So the answer to your question is a resounding no.
Scaling memcache at Facebook
I like your thinking V, and that's not too far away from one of our ideas. Take some algos that are representative of typical market makers and trader behaviour and fit the parameters so that the simulated trading starts to look like the live data. Maybe it's a better idea to use real algo makers.
The Hell of American Day Care
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Think about it this way - what if someone is being raped every day in the parking ramp at your office, or murdered on the street you ride your bike to work each morning? If you heard about it on the news, you could change your route to work or ride with a buddy to increase your safety.
Thank god! I copy pasta code all day long and this is exactly what I need.

I heard if you don't repeat yourself then you don't run into this kind of thing, but agile startup nodejs ninjas have no time for that
This guy has seemingly made a career out of being wrong about Windows.

Here's a quote from one of his other articles, "I can't say that I've looked at Windows 7 nearly as closely as Kennedy has, but I've looked at Windows 7 enough to know that it's no real improvement on Vista."

It's too bad that "journalists" can be consistently wrong with impunity.

That said, based on his track record, Windows will probably have a bright future.
I'm not saying it does capture proficiency accurately, I'm saying it's better marketing.

Marketing isn't about painting an objective picture, your interviewers will be critical enough to balance it out. Don't do their job for them.
But that's just poor coding practices as you're letting any old garbage in as data without first validating it (and that's assuming such data was user generated. If the garbage was generated within your code itself then you have even bigger problems).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against loosely typed languages (eg in Perl it's very handy being able to use strings and integers as booleans), but that example you've given would scare me in any language as you shouldn't be making any assumptions about data unless the program generated that data itself (and even then, I'd still run a few checks if just to catch unconsidered exceptions / security vulnerabilities)
I would agree if the only goal was to reinvigorate people who were creative to begin with.

However, my concerns lie with the majority who aren't creative because they weren't taught this at home or by the school system when this is becoming more and more important in an economy that is difficult to find a job. It's difficult to teach anyone to be creative past the time they graduate college. They become too set in whatever ideology they believe in.
Tugboat: A command line client for DigitalOcean
Sorry, the servers are already at full capacity.
However, I registered your repo registration.

Thanks for the feedback. That's exactly what I'm looking for.
Nice gui. It needs a fast-forward speed. It also needs to interpret the , instruction for accepting input. Maybe you could use http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug (in Debug mode) as a guide.
Here is a demo of a sandbox-escape for Comodo from July http://youtu.be/TopCisbEbWU Even full blown VMs like VMware (CVE-2008-0923) and VirtualBox (CVE-2011-2305) have known escapes.

The only thing worse than running untrusted code on your box is giving other people on the internet a false sense of security that its somehow OK to do so if you install magical snake oil.
The paper's website:
http://mvilletouchstone.com/
If only I could be as brave as you.
My disk is encrypted. Bootloader, kernel and encryption keys are with me on USB flash. Good luck trying this approach.
Linode is serving confidential files over unauth'ed HTTP
You are asking how the human brain works, that's a whole different issue and I don't know what Kaggle is/does.
Unfortunately, the Play framework plugin is only for the Ultimate edition (last time I checked).

I'm currently working my way through the Functional Programming in Scala course on Coursera using Eclipse. I'm not sure if I would make use of IDEA for now which is why I'm unsure whether to buy it or save myself $70 and get WebStorm only. Plus I think WebStorm currently supports TypeScript better than IDEA but that could change with an update.

I'll definitely pay the $99 if they throw in WebStorm. Is that something you've heard JetBrains has done in the past?
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You just made my day, kind sir :)
We work really hard to hear these kinds of things. Thank you!
> We don't even "work with" each other. If you don't learn anything else from this, get this: we work alone.

I don't get this. I like working in a team, and like working with people. I can't imagine working alone all the time. I am more productive when I am with the team, and interacting with the team than when I am alone in a room.

I know everyone works differently, but almost no one seemingly is willing to discuss an alternate version of this. I'm tired of the old 'meetings suck, PM's suck' cliches. When I was working for a large internet company, we got a lot of work done in meetings and lots of PM's were respected.
i vaguely recall something about being allowed three instances per lan.. i'll dig out the email from thei customer service people when i get home
Selling your property involves paying a 5% cut to the agent, buying a property involves paying 5% in fees as points, closing costs, inspections, legal fees, etc. I would hate to do that every year or two as I moved between employers, but being able to rent an apartment anywhere in the world means I can go where there is demand for my skills.

The reason why people spend 65% of their after-tax income on rent is because people are willing to spend 65% of their after-tax income on rent. Supply and demand is a bitch, and when you fuck with it, you create massive distortions that end up enriching a small minority at the expense of everyone else (for an example, see anyone paying $600/mo for a nice 2 bedroom rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan).

And I like the idea behind a progressive property tax, but it would never, ever, ever become law in the US. Not while there is a single breath of life in any lobbyist or congressman.
It wasn't officially recorded, although audience members might have captured some of it. I wish it had been: I can only really give this talk once.

As an aside, if you're not familiar with the Ignite format it's great. You have 20 slides, and each slide auto-advances after 15 sec. So I really had to practice the timing.
Isn't it amazing how many commentors actually know nothing about the mechanisms of the currency, preferring to comment from a position of ignorance in tabloid headline statements.

I find it very strange coming from a community of so-called "hackers" that this should happen, considering a) the interesting and complex technical mechanisms involved, and b) the "mysterious" circumstances of it's coming about. Who wouldn't want to get their hands dirty with it - at least out of curiosity?

In fact, it's what I find more and more irritating about this community,

Apologies @pg - just had to let off steam.
It seems there are many derivatives. Here's one I use and like: https://github.com/meonkeys/j2 .
awesome. that is all.
We will eventually support bitbucket.
We would love to also support tools that are closer to us (like IDEs for instance) and continuous integration tools.

Thanks for the feedback!
Couldn't agree more. I've been writing a lot lately, and the exercise has forced me to research things, clarify my own understanding and thinking, and really think about the big picture of how a lot of things tie together. Also, I keep finding new connections between "topic A" and "topic B" that I had not thought about before, OR discovering "topic C" that I didn't even know about before.

So, as a side effect of writing, I've actually generated quite a few new ideas, from ideas about marketing and branding, to product feature ideas, etc.

My nominal purpose in a lot of this writing has been to engage in some "content based marketing" and drive more traffic to our website, establish credibility, etc. But as nathanmarz points out, those things become (or almost become) just side benefits.

Now if I just had more time to write...
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I'm pretty sure that jurisdiction includes people in prisons operatedby the US government.
Nope. I have made no 'allegations'.
eBay actually lets you use escrow services for this type of thing: http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/escrow.html

"Using Escrow.com can help keep buyers and sellers safe from fraud. When you use Escrow.com, they collect the money from the buyer and hold it until the buyer and seller agree that the terms of the sale have been met. Once both parties are satisfied, Escrow.com sends the payment to the seller. Escrow.com is licensed and regulated company, and the only escrow service that can be used for eBay transactions. "
I think this overlooks one fairly major fact and the reason Microsoft became one of the most valuable companies in the world: businesses have employees. Employees use productivity software. Productivity software cannot run on a tablet in any practical sense. Even if it could, most large companies (which are Dell and Microsoft's bread and butter) lag a good 10 years behind technology trends. This is why most employees are running Windows XP or 7 and the same stodgy Office productivity software they've been using for 20 years. It works and is universally accepted.

If there is ever a drop in demand large enough that would render the desktop computer market small enough to halt production, I would bet that you will find that you no longer use it for productivity either. I'm a developer too and that is not a niche market. It's easy to think of it as such but the reality is that old-fashioned productivity isn't going anywhere. Tablets have replaced non-consumption and at best complement desktop machines.
yes. but wait, I developed an [android application](https://github.com/joelewis/emotionreader/bin/emotionBBC.apk) that categorizes news by emotions, so why not just try to ignore the anger, sadness and fear sections of the app and read the rest?
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Yes people use them. They can drive a decent amount of traffic too if they have some alluring and easily digestible content such as the common "list of top 10 bla bla" articles. It is also suspected that Google weighs shared links highly for ranking so just a few shares can give a substantial boost to a page's seo value. Though no one knows for sure how it works.
Ember at Embedly - Part III
A PC isn't a tablet nor is it a phone.

Microsoft should have their Windows people concentrate on the PC. Make it the best desktop device possible.

They need a separate mobile group. Keep Balmer as CEO but when it comes to mobile do the opposite of whatever he says. It worked for George: http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/the-opposite-2326/
“I struggle to think of anything that Windows could add to its functionality that would make me want a new version.”

Windows 7 and OS X 10.8 are fine desktop OSes that one can continue to use for years to come. However, I can think of two improvements for future versions:

* Better file systems. Windows was supposed to get WinFS, OS X was destined to adopt ZFS. Unfortunately, neither of those panned out. HDDs are on their way out, we need native support for a file system that is reliable and is optimized for SSD use. Preferably, both Apple and Microsoft use the same open source solution for all their platforms, but that's not likely to happen.

* APIs to aide cooperation between mobile apps and desktop apps and TV screens. Right now, there are few good examples of mobile apps adding to the desktop experience, or the other way around. At the moment, only Adobe Nav[1] and Adobe Color Lava[2] come to mind. This is something Apple en Microsoft need to solve, not make each developer do so for themselves. Look at the brilliant folks at Panic and their Status Board app: they spent months working on a solution to display high quality graphics from an iPad to a TV screen [3]; those things should be much easier.

[1] http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/nav

[2] http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile/colorlava

[3] http://www.panic.com/blog/2013/03/the-lightning-digital-av-a...