skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reason Apple's RAM is so expensive is because it undergoes very thorough RAM tests to verify it is 100%, and is also covered by AppleCare. So if your RAM goes bad, they'll replace it.

Isn't that second thing the case with OWC RAM too? That it's covered by some guarantee and that if it goes bad, they'll replace it?
I have a fully loaded 2012 Air and happily do all those things on it.
I worked at Yahoo! during a fairly large compromise. There were about 2.1M accounts which were phished.

I think Yahoo!'s an easy target because 1) they have a lot of email users and 2) a lot of those users are older and/or more likely to be phished.

It was a nightmare to fix the compromised account and took a team about 3 months to complete.
VVVVVV was great fun. I couldn't recommend it for everyone, but it was a challenge, and that challenge made it satisfying to complete. The best part was that it wasn't unclear what you had to do, it was just hard and skillful to achieve it, so I never had to turn to a guide.

I feel quite similar with Hotline Miami. It's a tough game and you die a lot, but it's extremely satisfying plotting your strategy and executing it to success.
"Nobody — not Google, not the manufacturers, and certainly not the carriers — gives a shit if you hate your Android phone or put that cheap tablet in a drawer after a month. "

This is a very misinformed comment. Google doesn't make any money from the initial sale of Android devices, it only makes money if people actually use them, so the opposite is true.
President Obama on the NSA when interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlThTTJgKYo&t=26m40s

(Link takes you to about the 26th minute mark where the issue is mooted)

http://www.charlierose.com/

(Unwieldy video player)
Here's an article (not written by me, just found by using google) that has an example how the VHDL/Verilog compiler infers to use a dual-ported SRAM from code that describes the behavior, including the bugs you'll encounter.

http://danstrother.com/2010/09/11/inferring-rams-in-fpgas/
For many people, culture and community are a major part of their identity and well-being. Destroy that and you've destroyed a part of them. What does "taking care of" individuals mean when you posit that their entire community should be destroyed, just because you had some unpleasant experiences in their neighborhood?

Also, there aren't many people bothering to somehow take care of the individuals, which says a lot about the self-declared DTV majority culture.
It is a little bit more complicated.

There are a few people buying those privately-built house(literally it is called small-property-houses in China) because it is much cheaper compared to market price.

However, there are some big flaws of those house:

1, It is not protected by law, the house can't be registered under buyer's name. It has been reported that some people living in those house was driven out by the government or the land owner.

2, As a buyer, you can not bind house-registry(namely hukou) with those house, so, children will not have the right to attend nearby school because those house are not belonging to any school district.

3, Also the land owner will be punished for building those kind of houses.

In all, although there are a few private-built house near to big cities like Beijing, generally it is not an option.
Ask HN: Who want's the boycott app if I die?
Hey folks,

I created "the boycott app" (otherwise known as "Boycott" for android) and would like to appoint a benefactor of the product in case of my untimely death. This agreement would be mostly free of expenses on your end.

If anyone is interested in being responsible for the upkeep and income of the product if I were to die, please let me know.

I think the app is important for the success of our future. You can check it out here http://theboycottapp.com and let me know if you're be interested by emailing president@nanch.com.

Cheers,
David Nanch
NYT columnist Maureen Dowd recently described a supposed political strategy in a recent column:

“It’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s old news.”

If you can delay and delay and delay until the outrage disapates you just might be able to get away with something outrageous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/dowd-when-m...
Out of curiosity, if a customer came in to buy a $1,500 machine, but what they really need is a $200 Chromebook, what would you do?

EDIT: thanks for the down votes, but its an honest question. What if the customer comes in, and the solution that is best for them is not something sold by Apple? In particular, Apple only sell high end products. I have jad salespeople tell me to go to a low end competitor in the past, and some will just try to sell you the high end stuff.
The inarticulate, chopped-up sentences are one thing. But he's always been really big on the doublespeak, in my opinion.
Fun little discussion from 3 years ago: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=9518885&sid=f1...

> I am the developer of Firefox Ghostery

> I can assure you that the only way our company gets any information from you is if you opt-in

> I can also assure you that none of the data we have is ever going to be sold to anybody.
Real Entrepreneurs don't take money from the Government.
I expect milestone payments based on deliverables if the project is fixed bid.

My schedule for invoicing is usually

1) retainer at start of project

2 & 3) milestones 1 and 2, which can be "tech design approval" and "dev complete" or whatever

4) launch or end-of-warranty closeout.

As more of our projects are integration of our software with client systems, 2 and 3 are usually agreement on integration design and entry into integration testing.

I've reduced fixed bid work due to some challenging client circumstances that drove too many change orders (I like about one per week) and have focused more on T&M with a not-to-exceed.
Both your web hosting and support account credentials are encrypted. I see you point not sending them to you when you setup the services, but you have to understand that we do offer services for a wide range of people. Some really want a copy of their login in their email that they have locally.

But I take your point about this and we will try to make that optional. It is optional when you setup email sub-accounts for the administrator.
This makes the deeply flawed assumption that the only time advertisements have value is if someone clicks them.
I agree. I was talking about 'management interface' that shardling suggested. So, this would only kick in if you are a contributor of that project.
Instagram could make a video move
Instagram has finally joined the video arena.
At the same time, giving Tesla the privilege to sell directly because of their absent legacy relationshops would give them a unfair advantage. I like Tesla, but they shouldn't gain this advantage.

Society could simply allocate its resources more efficiently if the law is dropped for all manufacturers. Protecting the status quo at the cost of inefficient allocation can not be justified.
I guarantee the things you are thinking of are implemented in microcontrollers, not FPGA's. FPGA's aren't even that good at state machine type logic - they excel in parallel tasks which make the most use of each (longer) clock cycle.
Speaking of the quick save/reload reminds me of why Braid is so good - its designed so that mistakes aren't costly, and the player is encouraged to explore and not fear making an error and loosing progress.

Games _should_ be designed that way.
High Availability Log Collector Configuration (Fluentd)
One way in which this tension been resolved (often to the consumer's detriment) is with MAP (minimum advertised pricing) agreements. Such agreements, as an example, permit Apple and other electronic stores such as Best Buy to peacefully co-exist in markets in which they both have presence. Both parties agree not to undercut the other, and both share the burdens and benefits of sales.

With respect to dealerships' monopoly on repair knowledge, at least one state (Massachusetts) has passed a "Right to Repair" act, and car makers have largely made it easier for independent mechanics to obtain service and diagnostic information, so this issue is basically moot now. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Vehicle_Owners'_Right_to_...
AFAIK C is by far the most prevalent language for embedded systems, which are typically the applications FPGA's are also used for.
I think Super Metroid is a really interesting game in that it doesn't rely on tutorials to tell you how to do things. It relies on you paying attention to the environment (the animals tell you how to perform tricks and do things easier), and requires you to experiment with equipment to find shortcuts and power ups.

I actually got stuck early in the game by not remembering there is a run button. Such a simple function, but it's never actually shown to you until you need to use it. Presumably this was in the manual I neglected to read :)

I'm not sure 'easier' is the right word for it. I'd say that newer games just explain everything to you, and don't really leave much exploration or experimentation in controls or playstyle.

Also, I don't think it's really padded for length as some people here have mentioned. I started and completed it recently on the Wii U (albeit with a few sneak glances at an FAQ in parts), and it took me around 6 hours. Not very long by today's standards, though I'm a little young to say whether this applies to the older generation of games.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Dammit Guybrush, push the cannon to get the gunpowder to blow the fort!
I've found pretty much the opposite for the Play Store. I like that it's relatively fast and much more responsive than the App Store (which is quite frankly terrible), but finding anything I actually want is a pretty dismal experience as well (this is unrelated to the quality of the actual apps themselves).

All the navigation is counter-intuitive (What do you mean swiping to the left doesn't go back and instead takes me to categories or who knows where? Why doesn't the back button take me back to my search results? etc). The curated front screen rarely seems to have anything new and interesting on it (for apps anyway, I never look at the media part of it), whereas the App Store constantly has new featured apps which are actually good. The first six months I had my Nexus 7 the "here's stuff you might like for your tablet" section didn't change.

I quite like my Nexus 7 and am considering switching to Android for my next phone now that I've found a few apps that I can bear using (and some of them are actually well designed to boot), but apart from automatic updating, the Play Store is not one of the attractions.
Actually it's a long-term strategy. Happy customer is returning customer.
Perhaps after receiving feedback on your post, you'll find one oe two aspects that you can refine or drill deeper on and will make a great railsconf talk for next year.
> people don't go to dealers all that much for service

What evidence do you have to support this contention? Every car dealer I've ever been to has had a very busy service center, often to the point of requiring a week's notice to obtain an appointment. And in CA, at least, state law forbids manufacturers from requiring cars be serviced at a dealership as a condition of honoring the warranty.
While I find this option very attractive from what I've read the drivers aren't very well optimised for Windows and battery life in particular takes a rapid nose dive on Windows Vs. OSX.

I mean a Macbook Pro has better battery life than a Thinkpad Txx with a 6 cell battery (worse than 9 cell) but if you put Windows on the Macbook Pro instead of OS X then the reverse is true (@ 6 cell).
I just hope the mass doesn't get manipulated into doing anything stupid, because the attempts already started.

Left-wing sympathizers (including the original movement) are already manipulating the protests. A portion of the people in the protests diverged and tried to break into the state hall (where the governor sleeps). Why, if the bus fares are controlled by the city mayor? They should be protesting on the city hall, but they won't, for obvious political implications since the mayor is left-wing.

Right-wing are also joining the protests now in an attempt to overthrow. The anti-corruption sentiment of the general population can be fuel to an impeachment of left-wings in power in the following days.

The media at large is also reporting the happenings in a positive light only. We all know this can't be good, a functional media is one that shows two sides of the story, but it seems most media outlets are too scared to disagree.

Finally, the moral judgment already started on the social networks. Anyone who doesn't join the protests gets alienated. Since social networks amplify positive feedback only, things are turning into an echo chamber.

Different than other brazilians, I'm not 100% happy the "people are waking up", I'm actually scared because it's just a bunch of fed up people hitting the streets without a clear objective.

This has the potential to be really good if the people put political parties aside and keep putting pressure on important matters in the following days; but can also be catastrophically bad if radical leaderships pop up from this.
I think it depends on the game and the experience desired by the creator. For something like Day Z, you want the progress lost when dying to be part of the story and the experience.

For something where the overarching narrative is featured, like Braid / Journey, I think the quick restarts are just as important.
Because it always results in the same exchange of dialogue. If you don't think a post is appropriate, flag it. That does something that might result in action. All commenting does is consume space for nowt.
Here's the Firefox Developer Tools output for Net, on a page reload immediately after the original page load (which seems to cut down drastically on requests due to caching which makes it easier for me to copy/paste the only 3 lines)

[02:27:36.182] GET https://medium.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 538ms]
[02:27:40.346] GET https://use.typekit.net/c/ec2d65/ff-tisa-web-pro:i4:i7:n4:n7,freight-sans-pro:n5:n7.Vdl:K:2,Vdq:K:2,Vdk:K:2,Vdp:K:2,TJD:K:2,TJJ:K:2/d?3bb2a6e53c9684ffdc9a98f7195b2a621af3706c43fd27fb1c2ac857895f9c1aa6e0a150c34a58a8cc268e093140e6a1c68d195f68c7ab5421d37c9f8037314acfccd341c5549953c3a5458d2153cf8598355c0169dde8a5e929e0abaef018efc3172b52ac4ce90d2e52930933d272c500a79829545c0b6ce81c15e104d6e141cf6a16eac595caa6382b0e1d176e5adc9bf2c5223ee5a452e892ca4cc2ddd59f9a101d5108046fb341684043b4aaa0808e0352746b2dd67d4d08453cb5a64ec80e36d899fbceb49c43ffc6ad03f5d251dc23736866 [HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden 12ms]
[02:27:44.154] POST https://medium.com/_/stat/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 41ms]
So you're suggesting journalists to do their job? Nonsense!

Recently in Spain a comedian surfaced as a journalist, "El Follonero" (free translation: The Trouble-Maker).

It all began as a TV comedy programme about the spanish elections, where El Follonero (actually Jordi Évole, he's no longer El Follonero) asked uncomfortable questions. It eventually became a full programme, not much about comedy but with lots investigative journalism and uncomfortable interviews.

A comedian saving journalism.

Meanwhile, traditional media is just parroting the official views of the established power.
From my understanding Buffer has a schedule and queue. It simply pulls the first tweet off the queue when next scheduled time comes. TweetClock is for a different use case. TweetClock creates tweets with a queue of times for each individual one. So a tweet can be tweeted at multiple specific times. Buffer only allows tweets to be tweeted once.
What surprises me the most is Americans never stopping and wondering about people outside the US.
This is why I never used a lot of services inside the US, and the few I have I will remove over time.
I've owned my Macbook Pro for a year and a half and I've never opened the App Store except when that annoying "Updates" notification pops up that has no close button.

Correction: I did just download the 10.8.4 update from the App Store and I found one app online a while back that only offered a download link through the App Store.
Just so you know, those achievements are like tracking cookies: the video game companies can't just send home whatever data they want, but they can see achievement data. So that achievement was just to see how many of the people who bought the game actually started to play, to provide a baseline for how many (go halfway/beat the game/play the multiplayer/anything else they can jam in an achievement).
Biggest Protests in 20 Years Sweep Brazil
Email Marketing with iOS
You know, "thinking" is usually done by analysis and synthesis, both movements together. And synthesis is just another name for generalization. I think it is a relevant generalization to state that French people have had in their history a bunch of struggles, which make them more sensitive to the topic than other people.

Another cultural traits: Chinese men are more shy than, say, male US citizen. I have lived in China 10 years, I don't see how anyone could deny this.

And yes, I have met the cliche of the Chinese being "easy to control" a lot of time.
Three choices of being remarkable
The 'discovering' part of discoverability isn't something that just happens one time. If I'm not using your software day in day out then I'm likely to forget your silly icons.
Some PCs have a good resale market too. Thinkpads hold their value well enough to use the same technique.
I remember during the Boston bombing investigation, Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent, told Erin Burnett on CNN that they could go back and get access to the content of the calls between the deceased bomber and his wife, Katherine Russell.

After some Googling, I found a partial transcript of the CNN interview...

"Almost immediately Erin Burnett, the host of CNN's Outfront, wanted to know how the government knew. Aren't phone calls supposed to be private? She interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent on May 1, asking:"

Is there any way … they [the federal investigators] can
try to get the phone companies to give that up … It’s not
a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There’s no way
they can actually find out what [was said on the call],
right, unless she tells them?

Clemente: There is a way. We certainly have ways in
national security investigations to find out exactly what
was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily
something that the FBI is going to want to present in
court, but it may help lead the investigation … we
certainly can find that out.

Burnett: So they can actually get that? … that is
incredible.

Clemente: Welcome to America. All of that stuff is being
captured as we speak, whether we know it or like it, or
not.

Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15340-boston...

When I initially saw this on CNN, my first thought was, do they also have access to all photos and videos that are taken and transmitted online?

And if so, couldn't they stitch together a multi-angle montage from all the photos and videos taken at the scene of the Boston bombing (like http://photosynth.net), rather than asking everyone to manually scour through their personal footage?

UPDATE:

CNN Interview Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHZrVPt4-U)

CNN Follow-Up Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc)
Yes. Not to disappoint anyone, but several of my friends actually had problems buying higher spec machines in Europe. To the point where they had to either convince the sales guy or go trough corporate sales to and often wait several weeks to get it. And as you say, you do want the ram upgrade because not having it will decrease the lifetime of the product and you can't updrade later.
The inarticulate, chopped-up sentences are just an artifact of the article's author purposefully being nasty to Obama. Everybody talks like that; it's just not quoted as a matter of course.
OWC will definitely replace faulty RAM free of charge (example: we bought 2-4 sticks for each of 6 computers a while back, and three of the sticks were bad - very simple return process and they sent out replacements before the originals were returned).

I think the OP's point is that buying RAM through Apple (at a hefty premium) is a significant convenience for some people: if there's an issue - any issue - with the computer, take it back to Apple and they'll sort it out. Buying third-party RAM isn't quite as convenient.

Of course, in my experience Apple will happily look at your computer even with third-party RAM, but they obviously won't fix any issues caused by it.
"Try" being the keyword there. Despite my very clear patterns of app consumption (action & puzzle games), Genius keeps suggesting me different podcast apps because I bought one 2 years ago (hint: nobody needs more than one). It has proven completely useless.
I think that improved design has made it possible for many modern games to ramp up difficulty. One of the reasons that Super Meat Boy gets away with its fiendish difficulty is the incredible fidelity of control that the game offers. When you die in Super Meat Boy, it's never the fault of "awkward controls" or the "weird physics" (two complaints common for many primitive platformers); responsibility for Meat Boy's death lies solely with the player. The same is true of Dark Souls, where everything about the game from its combat mechanics to its level design affords an immense degree of player agency. Previously, some games had to be more forgiving to make up for shortcomings in game design.
I dislike the right side persistent navigation bar. It takes up considerable room and it makes the page unbalanced as you scroll down. I prefer the content to take up the full width and to be centered. When you scroll down on a long page, the navigation scrolls out of view and content is off center. When I code, I prefer to designate the majority of my screen to the code. The right navigation column seems like wasted space.
Awesome answer.

I would also further elaborate that automatic analysis of private communications prior to the date of a warrant can not be used as justification to obtain a warrant to gather information going forward.

Any automatic analysis of content should be considered fruit of a poisonous tree and every single thing that comes from that fruit, including a approval of a warrant and fruit gathered after the warrant was issued should be considered poisoned.

The worst of all this is that the classified nature of all this makes it impossible to determine when evidence was gathered from this poisonous tree.
I was quite disappointed to see that after the latest upgrade the air still doesn't support more then 8 gb. If I buy a machine for the next few years, I want more ram than the current 2008 MacBook Pro I have...
> Only $100 for double the RAM, $150 for the faster processor, and if you’re doing that, you might as well max out the SSD as well.

With lots of people around the world getting $500 as average salary, I have to laugh with this "only" expression.
Ok, semantics error. I switched the meaning of bugging/wiretapping the room. I can't edit the message.

The point is the same, you actually carry around tools that allows others to spy on you (this wasn't the case before). Happy?
Here's the full output of Firefox Developer Tools:

http://i.imgur.com/IcVYDCr.png?1
> Both parties agree not to undercut the other

How is that different from price fixing?
Preventing Tesla from breaking up the weird dysfunctional system is not the way to get it dropped for all manufacturers. It's the way to enshrine it even more firmly than it already is.
Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” [2012]
so a manufacturer which is providing lifetime service and updates would be ok? this actually sounds like a fantastic way to break the new car incentive model..

saas style car-as-a-service.. or aaas for the yanks