skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't shop at Costco because the long checkout lines kill any price advantage.
Mavericks "Less than a minute remaining"
I think keeping the iPad2 as an entry level iPad is fine, the problem is the price imo. I got my iPad2 for about that price a year ago...
But then again, Apple is known to do that..the outgoing Mac Pro is pretty overpriced given how outdated the hardware has become.
Bankid is based on java iirc.
Ask HN: Bitcoin mining still worth it for individuals?
Held off on bitcoin all this time but now I want to jump in and build my own rig. Is it too late in the game to still be profitable without breaking the bank on gear?
Webkit was already open source before Apple started using it.

Apple created Webkit. They were using/forked KHTML for that, but it quickly diverged.
Not only would it be a better experience for the customers, it would save them a ton of bandwidth as well. I have no idea why App Store doesn't use BT by default and fall back to direct downloading.
Anyway, do you know what I do when there are discussions online about my employer?
I stay the fuck out of it.

This is an excellent policy. Employee participation (unless they're CEO/Founder, CTO or some combination thereof that can speak with authority) will almost invariably lead to problems. It's good that some employees feel "passionate" and "enthusiastic" about their company/product, but if that's left unchecked and they refuse to remain objective, it will not prevent the thread from going up in a passionate and enthusiastic fire ball.

Same applies to social media.
The closest equivalent on the GPUs for the D300 (same SP count, slight clock bump, less RAM) is the W7000, which goes for about $650/ea right now.

Part for part, the new Mac Pro is very well priced, but like others have mentioned you could make different decisions if you put together your own system (personally I'd rather have a single R9 290X for example, but I game more than I CAD/CAM).

Of course, the new Mac Pro is your only choice if OS X is something you need (discounting PITA to update hackintoshes).
People that think this community is pro-Apple should stick around some more. This is the only place were I'm constantly seeing Apple (and Google) badmouthed with good arguments. Personally I hate Apple's products and most of my anti-Apple rhetoric received up-votes.

I've seen plenty of Microsoft related stories, but if Microsoft tends to be driven off the front page, maybe it's because Microsoft is totally uninteresting and some Microsoft proponents behave like shills, especially because they bitch and moan about the lack of interest in Microsoft, as if it's some kind of conspiracy or as if it's our duty to have an interest in Microsoft.
Systems don't work by themselves. You need a person(s) somewhere. That person has to live somewhere, unless he is in space or in the middle of ocean.
Command line tools are removed from xcodes' downloads. But they can be installed with

xcode-select --install
If you have a Netgear WNDR3700v2 or a WNDR3800, check out Cerowrt [1]. The latest stable build, 3.7.5-2, has been exceptionally stable for me, and fast. I would highly recommend it.

1. http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt
No mention of the fact that when harm reduction fails you get a disease. Condoms don't protect from STDs all the time, abstinence does.

How about this for a principle. If you don't trust a person enough to marry them, then they probably aren't a safe sex partner.
This must be what CSS3 has been invented for. I can die in peace now.
The blockchain is a public ledger of most every transaction made with bitcoin. It includes sending and receiving addresses and the amount transacted.

You can think of the Coinbase app as a contact book that attaches a name and face to a bitcoin address. This is exclusive to the Coinbase servers. No one else but you can see the identities of the people you have transacted with, only the addresses and amounts.
But this is a very weak approach, as it makes it extremely easy for bad actors to 'poison the well.' If there's something you don't like, use a sockpuppet account or two to get a flamewar going, thread gets nuked from orbit, and the people who wanted to discuss it in good faith are marginalized.
If Boeing made a jet that everyone over 4' tall had to bend in half to sit in, would you say "hence why larger sizes are available"?

16GB iPads are a poor (or at least mediocre) user experience, even for ordinary users. It's contrary to Apple's ethos to continue making them at all.

It's even sillier when you consider that everything else about the baseline $499 model has been drastically improved several times over since 2010, and Apple has taken steps that clearly reduced the utility of the 16GB baseline (retina graphics, full HD video).

32GB should be the new $499 baseline. It's way past time.
You're right that there's a pretty big demand for talent. Many talented college students have the skills to get into high level tech companies, but they simply don't have proper connections. We want to make it easier for college students to network. Also, recruiters have a hard time finding highly talented college students. We help prep the students for interviews, restructure their resumés, and give them a serious amount of connections. Students don't have to spend time looking into a few places to work. We can bring them tens of job offers since we have a solid network in Silicon Valley. To sum it up: college students get to spend less time searching for jobs, and more time studying/getting better at their craft; while we bring them the jobs and prep them. I like the questions! Keep 'em coming.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3093323
Indeed. What about the Apple II/e and original Macintoshes remaining useful for a decade after their release?
Maybe my sarcasm detector if off, but aren't windows updates and Microsoft Security Essentials (a pretty good AV from what I hear, I wouldn't know as I run Linux) completely free?
I have a late 2008 macbook pro (which happens to be the oldest supported version) and Mountain Lion worked flawlessly. I'll upgrade to Mavericks today and see what happens. I think it'll work without problems :)
Heh, and they didn't even get into the aliasing rules. In embedded software, life would be a lot easier if I could hit every engineer who wants to type-pun without a union in the head with the ISO standard.

For this reason, a lot of compilers have options to not strictly enforce the aliasing rules

[edit]
Also C and C++ are both permitted to reorder structs, it's just that they don't because that's the easiest way to follow the standard.
It's a good discussion of the behind the curtains working of compilers

But I'm very aware of "smart code" and we shouldn't be writing code that relies on the details (especially ones that might change between compilers)
I read every page. Great work. Really. It's a great read.
Several are trying, but without aanything being open sourced, and not not knowing what the data later looks like, it's a wee bit challenging.

Plus, HHS is dead set in bringing Verizon on board to clean the mess.
Actually, when it comes to Microsoft Research, Microsoft does it the right way. Although it is considered a good thing for research projects to be incorporated into products, many projects are free to take a longer view and contribute to base knowledge that benefits all. Kind of the way Xerox Park worked in the days of old.

Why should everything be Unix based? Aren't alternatives and competing ideas a good thing? Adoption of open standards isn't enough. Just look at Google's tactics with Android as described in the recent Ars article or Apple's control over iOS. In many ways classic Windows (and MacOS) were/are more open than either of those systems. It's too bad that Microsoft is being forced (by the market)to follow that model. In the end companies will do what they feel is in their own interest limited only by government regulation. That's the capitalist way. Enlightened self interest will result in benefits for all that are worth the cost of creative destruction. No need to hate on any company. The market and the system will self correct.
You can still tell your clients to uee another browser

Actually, we've been doing that for quite some time on one of the major projects I work on that uses Java applets, for exactly this reason. We usually recommend a recent version of IE, and as a general policy we don't offer any sort of guaranteed support for Firefox or Chrome. Of course we still test on those other browsers routinely and we'll help customers who have problems if we can, but no-one is getting any money back if they break later because of the kinds of changes we're talking about.

The worrying thing for Mozilla should be how many businesses are essentially telling us that they agree and they're moving or already planning to move back to IE as their corporate standard. It's certainly not always because of Java, but choices like rapid update cycles, lack of long-term support, and willingness to drop useful functionality do seem to be generating an increasing amount of hostility from institutional users.
So what's better about going to you guys vs a campus recruiter from Google, FB etc.?
If you don't have any legacy baggage, you should celebrate your freedom to do what hockey great Wayne Gretszky said was his secret to success: Don't skate to where the puck is, skate to where it will be. The value of Python 2 knowledge is like the value of knowledge of how to write HTML/CSS for old versions of IE: a declining asset. If you don't have to deliver production software for today's user base, rejoice, and focus on learning how to target tomorrow's user base. Python 3 + Django 15 already let you do that. Those external libraries that don't work with Python 3 will either be upgraded or replaced. There is probably a lot you can learn about Python 3 and the latest Django while that takes place.

And, regarding kids, I'm teaching mine Python 3 only (no time wasted on Py 2) and the latest HTML5/CSS3 (no time wasted learning workarounds for obsolete browsers). I think they're better off focusing entirely on preparing for the future, not spending part of their time preparing for the past.
Well, Icedtea w/ OpenJDK7 still running. So this is Oracle-Java only?
I acknowlledge your point that people only innovate when they really NEED it. That's why disruptive innovation comes from more downtrodden companies. But apple is famous for the opposite of this. That even when at the top, they keep innovating to REMAIN at the top. And that is why its always a let down to see a new product with no innovation
> These days, Apple is probably more hated than Microsoft.

Perhaps, but the HN sample population is still biased favorably towards Apple.
Agreed. The cry for attention from the Microsoft community is becoming a bit annoying, especially on HN.
The girl forgot to mention exception safety on the class A slide, no hire.
You can set a timeout period in Keychain Access' preferences: http://www.macworld.com/article/1040403/workingmac.html
> Define rarely? What about Webkit, LLVM, and CUPS?
These were already established opensource technologies. Apple has improved these technologies. But LLVM, Webkit or CUPS would exist even if there was no Apple.
Was the survey conducted in India, by any chance?
The browser on my iPad 1 crashes constantly now (running the newer OS). Are you running iOS5 or the OS it came with? Do you do much web browsing on it?
I would argue it happens at an even higher level the 'planning' level.

One of the basic philosophical differences between the agile and waterfall approach is that agile assumes that you cannot know all the requirements at the beginning of a project. You must start building things before all the little dirty edge cases become obvious. Additionally you don't actually know if you're going in the right direction until you have something concrete to work with, even if it's mock ups or wire frames.

What I think they should of done in this case is rolled out the site in stages, probably starting with one state that had an easy backend to work with and gradually adding complexity to the site.
No, it is now totally ridiculous to invest in a mining rig.
Under the hood: MySQL Pool Scanner (MPS)
Sure, it had its roots in KDE's KHTML and KJS, but WebKit was started as an internal Apple project, and without their efforts it's highly unlikely that KHTML/KJS would have ever developed into the dominant layout engine.

According to the guy who implemented FFmpeg's ALAC encoder, there are power benefits to ALAC over FLAC. ALAC was developed when iPods were struggling to get 8 hours of playback, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that Apple's engineers wanted to be able to match the codec to the hardware as efficiently as possible.
Being driven off the front page due to lack of upvotes is completely different from having the article killed due to flagging or automatically for other reasons.

People who think all Microsoft proponents are shills are...well, Slashdot already exists, so why do they bother hanging out here? If you aren't interested in something, don't upvote it, but please don't take a dump on it either.
Freelancer IPO on the ASX
Why is it that Apple doesn't allow Bitcoin wallet applications, but does make an exception for Coinbase?
Fair enough. I should have specified CLR instead of C# in general.

That said, I stand by my argument that it is better compared to Java, though the later revisions have been adding more C++-esque low level features. I find C# a good compromise.

> It should be compulsory for everyone to learn about compiler design, before comparing programming languages.

My oversight, and difference of opinion with you does not mean I'm an uneducated idiot. I wrote a (limited) C compiler in my undergrad and programming languages was large mandatory portion of 4th year. If you rear-ended somebody on your morning commute, I'm not going to assume you're a dangerous driver and should be pulled off the road.

This is Hacker News - not Reddit. The least we can do is act like that means something.
University recruiters are rare to find outside of the largest companies. But let's say yes, you want a job at Google or Facebook. Why not just go to their recruiters? You actually should do that if you are confident you will make it in. One thing to consider is that these recruiters look over hundreds of applications every day when recruiting season is high. We look over quite a few as well, but we only select the best from our batch. After that we personally get to know them, help them in every possible way, mock interviewing/challenges, resumé cleanup, and most importantly, a lot of connections to hiring managers, VPs, and a good deal more. We are somewhat of a hyper-focused team who looks after our students.
But you didn't have physical access to the router. Setting aside that you could probably dump it out of memory if you had root on the OSX box, the router shouldn't have coughed it up so easily if it was supposed to be secure.
The new MacBook Pros all have USB3, as well as Thunderbolt, for external drives. Or get a NAS; I have 2TB in RAID1 and it cost me under $300.
Three things:

1. Bitcoin has good utility value as a currency. You can transfer it to anywhere on the planet, it's decentralized and has a monetary base cap. Tulips are de-cetnralized at best, but are otherwise quite a bad currency.

2. The tulip mania lasted only one season. It went up, peaked and then crashed. Bitcoin is closing it's fifth season and it had several major dips of which it came out stronger than it was before. Absolutely no similarity here.

3. This is getting old. Come up with something new please, will ya?
As dumb as this exploit is on the part of netgear, remember that to exploit it the attacker had to have already broken the WPA2 security to access the wifi or physically plugged in with ethernet. The first vector can be avoided by simply turning off management via wifi.

Or accessed your router internally via JavaScript, img tag, or iframe hidden on a malicious or compromised page. XSRF is real.

Edit: granted, browsers limit what JavaScript can do across sites, but request-only access is enough to change DNS settings to something malicious, and if the attacker can inject unescaped content into the page in some way, then they can run JavaScript on the router page and send data back that way.

Edit2: I'm not certain, but I think the timing of image load events could be used to determine success/failure of router actions loaded through a hidden img tag.
Agreed, as happy Apple customer I see plenty of anti-apple sentiment. I suppose I'm a little more sensitive to it. This is a common issue on many forums.

Anti-X sentiment takes a lot less effort than writing a cogent pro-X message supporting something, and everything has it's pro- and anti- crowd. I've seen plenty of posters complain that this, and other forums are anti-Apple, anti-Linux or anti-Microsoft when in fact there's a fairly healthy mix of opinion.

Maybe there is a trend against Microsoft in the news and forum world though. It doesn't seem all that long ago that most tech news and most interesting tech articles were about Microsoft products and technologies. Maybe that's still the case and I'm living under a rock, I doubt it because I still use mostly Microsoft platforms at work but it's possible, but there just doesn't seem to be all that much new and interesting stuff coming out of Microsoft these days. It's fairly rare that anything by them moves the needle in terms of tech punditry. They need to radically increase the value proposition of Windows and Metro just doesn't cut it. Maybe the Metro version of Office will help it get some traction but at this stage even that may not be enough.
Idaho court seizes developer's computer after he says he likes 'hacking'
Not only that, I surely am not expecting high end graphic cards to be appearing in boxes with Thunderbolt connectors.

There the design is also quite limited.
It seems the key initiative here is to improve adoption rates which is a sound strategy. As a developer, it's always a pleasure to write apps that only have to support the latest and greatest.

It would be a pretty big feat if the adoption rates for Mavericks came anywhere close to the adoption rates for iOS7.
Wow, I think that's a really nice looking landing page, nice work!
I don't run Windows either but I read articles in which Microsoft plans to sell their anti-virus service, for example [1].

Moreover, even if these are presently free, in the context of this thread we should consider the experience of users over two decades of history of Windows and Office products!

[1]: http://windowsitpro.com/security/microsoft-should-offer-free...
Ask HN: Embedded Chat in Website?
Recently someone proposed the idea of embedding a chat room on our website for users to chat between themselves (it's a community-type site). I was wondering why don't we see more sites having chat between users? Isn't it something that can make users stay on your site loner, and engage more? Do es that idea have any chance of success?
No. It is a prediction that someone who is 65 will live on average another 19 years to age 84. It does not assume "as many will die before as after." The wikipedia article on life expectancy is actually quite good, if you are interested in learning more.
> Besides, they've been moving YouTube to HTML5.

I wish this was working properly. I am using the HTML5 trial and embedded videos will randomly not work, and many, many other videos will simply show static with "You need Adobe Flash to view this video."

For some strange reason, the exact same videos work fine on my iOS devices — just not on a no-flash desktop web browser. I'm suspicious that YouTube purposely allows a larger selection of their content to work with iOS using HTML5, and purposely fails/requires flash on a desktop under HTML5.
Registering allows you to sue for more money than if you don't register,

Maximum is $250,000 per infringement if it is registered (and possible jail time for 10 or more infringements). If it is not registered then liabilty is just (simplified version) the retail price of each work infringed.

So, without registering it and without ever pricing it for sale, it could be argued that the damages would be $0.
Since I replaced Adobe Reader with SumatraPDF on my Windows machine I found this to be a really good feature and it works for the most PDFs. In recent Firefox version I did not have any problems viewing PDFs. Although they need to make it more responsive, especially on larger documents. But Adobe Reader wasn't really fast to begin with, so it's not that big of a deal.
Android supports C and C++ based activities since version 2.3.

At least for game development all the APIs that matter are available, with the remarkable exception of the new Google Play Services.
If this guy is such a rockstar at cleaning up the mess other people leave behind, why is he not leading these projects from the beginning? Or, since he is only one person, training and mentoring a staff of people who can manage the various projects in a similar fashion?

I feel like this is unfortunately just a typical response to a big issue like this ... "oh shit we've got a crisis, let's give everyone a hero." I think we can all agree that it'd be nice to have a full team of heroes leading all of the projects mentioned, instead of calling one in after millions of dollars have been spent on a failed system. Measure twice, cut once.

Actually let's take it one step further, fuck all of these bloated and inefficient contracting organizations and the layer-cake of bureaucracy that has been established to glue them together with government projects.

We have a strong national military... what's to stop us from having a strong national development team? I'm 100%-for private industry and letting private companies bid and fight to build the best product for the job ... but time and time again the end product we're left with is total garbage. Maybe the contractors are managed poorly, maybe the people writing the proposals have not a fucking clue in the world of what they are asking for, maybe the developers are careless and put out shitty work. Either way, a TON of time and money is wasted. It's an embarrassment.

We need an elite squad of hackers and designers building out the services for our nation. One that's both carefully chosen as well as fully responsible and 100% transparent for the things that they create.

Hell, it creates STEM jobs.
I wonder what the percentage will have to be before it's legalised? 70%, 80%, 90%?
I did it on a 2007 MacBook Pro and I was forced to re-enter my normal account credentials, at which point the installer started up.
SkyGiraffe Gets Strategic Investment From Microsoft To Mobilize Enterprises
On other devices this is true, but on my macbook air I keep having issues where I either have to wait for several seconds (10-20) at a black screen with a blinking underscore or that the options in the boot menu don't correspond with what gets booted. (mind you, I have been using ubuntu for at least 7 years now but the macbook air is the only device I couldn't install it reliably, guess it's even worse then using Windows on mac hardware :))
> It certainly requires us to accept an astonishing degree of naïveté in an otherwise very smart guy.

You haven't met many programmers, have you?

(I'm speaking of myself as well as friends and associates, here.)
You know, you're right but until I saw parent's comment I didn't realize why I found it hard to scan through the first page of the review. I wonder if orange is harder to scan through than a blue link with black text.

And sometimes it does seem there are links to excess.
Although I agree with Jason's article, his way of thinking of a minority. Most of the people/interviewers see what they have currently and make a split second judgement on the person as to whether they will be able to perform or not.

This is not just for designers but also for coders. Just because someone cannot perform in the interview does not mean they cannot perform in their day jobs.

I hope the hiring mentally changes their image of this.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

This is what you want.