skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a set PPI or above, since 'retina' was marketed as the point at which the eye couldn't detect the pixels. Presumably anything more dense would be considered the same. Since the 10" is a so-called retina display, it stands to reason that a 7" display with the same resolution also is retina.
If this is the software that's developed for millions of public users, imagine the software developed for in-house use, where the users are too few and too unsavvy to see how the software could be better (this is the case with most businesses, not just government)...this applies to basic information processing and to software interfaces for our sophisticated weapon systems.

And even the software for info systems can have dangerous consequences. Does anyone remember the underwear bomber, who almost brought down a plane and caused a nice surge of invasive security measures afterwards? His own father exposed him, but the State Dept's visa system failed to find the terrorist because someone misspelled his name when entering it into the system

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/08/terror.suspect.visa/i...

Think about it...the State Dept has been dealing with foreign terrorists well before 9/11, whose names are easily misspelled by Westerners...there's not even a consistent way to spell Osama bin Laden, depending on you interpret he phonetics. And yet no one thought that a fuzzy spellcheck would be useful, apparently. And a whole bunch of people almost died because of it (and the security apparatus greatly increased)
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I also take issue with the idea that "an active GitHub account should be enough for most programming jobs" but for different reasons. Good programmers do more than just 'programming' or 'coding to a spec'.

What industry verticals has the programmer worked in? A good programmer can add valuable domain expertise and they know the right questions to ask. How have they contributed to the businesses and products they have worked on? To what extent have they mentored and led other programmers? Have they got non-programming experience that could be potentially useful? What methodologies are they experienced with?
You can literally watch BTC China lead the way. Their price goes up before Gox does.

Having said that, a lot more coins are on BTC China today than yesterday, so this effect may decrease.
People care about Bitcoin. They don't care about other variants much. This gives Bitcoin value and not the other variants.

In other words, creating another blockchain is easy but convincing enough people that the variant coins are worth something is hard. Very hard.
If you're going to give us a 24 page whitepaper on a free OS upgrade, at least give a brief intro about your findings... verbiage and metaphor excluded.
Do you guys take Canadians?
What year Air? I'll likely be making the switch on my late '11 model with 4GB. Skipped Mountain Lion due to laziness and skepticism on performance.
There's always a tradeoff. With the Macbook for example, you get a glossy screen and Thunderbolt doesn't work in Linux.

* The Asus Zenbook 301 is a pretty good mixture of size and performance. It's as small as a Macbook Air, but has a higher TDP processor and Iris graphics.

* Manufacturers suddenly care about good screens. If all you want is a high resolution IPS/MVA/PVA/etc. screen, there's lots of choice.

* The "business" models from Lenovo etc. seem to be getting smaller and more aesthetically pleasing. Their build quality was always pretty good (in terms of robustness), now they also look OK. You can get a Thinkpad T440s with a matte 1080p screen, real Ethernet port, backlit keyboard and everything.
This is just the way government contracting works. The "Prime Contractor" is often explicitly required to subcontract out a "meaningful" portion of the work to sub-contractors for a variety of reasons. Mostly because, as touched on in the article, the DoD/lobbyist revolving door has legislated a huge system of what is effectively corporate welfare in the form of contracting. The government throws money and a few "senior engineers" and management staff to oversee the Prime, and the Prime does the a similar thing to oversee the subs, plus some higher-level integration work (which may or may not require a significant staff), and the subs frequently either buy pre-made "Commercial Off The Shelf" (COTS) and sell it at a markup (a big markup) or are selling their own "COTS" product to the Prime (that they develop with in-house/contracted staff), also at a substantial markup.

The public reason for this crap is that the system is supposed to be structured to make sure that accountability exists, favoritism is minimized, and employment is boosted (by spreading out the work). The reality is that the system is designed to maximize the enrichment of the lobbyist-connected owners of the contractors.
I buy a tablet (mini with LTE) instead of a phone. Absence of Touch ID won't stop me.
Retina is "anything past what the eye can discern pixels for"

Just like smooth is "anything the hand can't feel bumps on"
I guess somehow they are already completely inside with the iDevices?

I guess it's more seen as a push to avoid maintaining old software at high costs, and limiting fragmentation, by migrating as much people as possible. I guess the longevity of Windows XP must be seen as a scary thing. Also on a psychological level, the users get used to upgrade without too much fear. The company can retire the products sooner, flip the technology faster.
Only specs available are on the Apple site:

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

These are Apple specific SKUs from AMD. Deliberately done to prevent easy comparisons with the existing FirePro cards. AMD doesn't want their $3000+ per card customers to know that they handed over these chips to Apple at or below cost.
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Ahh, yeah, hmm. That's not exactly what I meant. A language for writing an OS on a conventional CPU would need to allow straightforward control of the memory for its own data structures, not just foreign memory. In lieu of that, I suppose you could turn just off the GC when doing time-sensitive things (like responding to interrupts).

That's sort of besides the point, though, because the main problem with SBCL and other CL implementations is that they are written for use in userspace programs and depend on having access to kernel system calls and library functions like malloc(). So if you were to write a kernel in CL, you'd first have to write an implementation for CL that can run on bare metal. At that point, you might as well just implement a different Lisp dialect that only has the features you need in order to write the kernel.
Maybe it's caused due FileVault disk encryption. Try disabling the encryption before applying the update.
I change my OS every few weeks or so... Distro hopping.

Or "Nixploration."

OS is not necessarily tied to a single machine.
Why you should NEVER write a package manager
It was Frodo or Apple. Stop bitching :)
On the contrary. Consider that the memory is the bottleneck when performing the blur. I understand you would create five instances of the images (50%, 12.5% Left, R, Top, B). This would worsen the bottleneck even more.

Additionally, the advantage of computing pixel by pixel is that the shader can operate massively parallel.
Recall that internal expandability was a feature of the Intel Mac Pro only. The same enclosure was used for the PowerMac G5, and most of the space inside was for the cooling systems. There was room for a single extra hard drive and a couple cards and that was it.

We're just going back to that, in an era when it matters less.
AnandTech tested the IRIS Pro 5200 to roughly on par with the 650M (last generation MBP), with obviously significantly better power management.

For Intel, that is quite an achievement. But it is just quite a bit too short for Apple to get rid of discrete graphic completely.

For the type of graphic performance that Apple put in its laptop (medium range), it is likely that Intel will catch up in a generation, maybe 2.
maybe watson should handle procurment
I made my own and I was bummed to discover that my BmmCoins are worthless!
"Without them, you could reward your friends with fat government contracts, regardless of what's in the public's interest.
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Except this happens anyway.
Much like patents, people just become better at drafting.
What is currently done is not an effective mechanism for stopping cronyism and corruption at all. In fact makes it easier in a lot of cases, because it provides plausible deniability (It's not that we gave it to our friend, it's that you didn't meet the requirements!)
Nice anecdotal strawman, so here's my contrary experience: I have owned iphones and android devices and never encased them nor broken them.
That only applies if the money is just created and not a result of taxation.
I did the same things. Loads of reading and asking to find that "golden path" or secret to make it click. "How do I consult?"

Well, find a job somewhere, preferably a large corporation. Lots of people run their own consulting gigs on the side. Talk to them.

I found out a few people, just around my cubicles, run a consultancy on the side with a few people hired.

I started working part time for their consultancies as we're always in the office together, then once my contract at the company finished, I knew abut 5-10 people that consulted so I got a few gigs with them. Boom, now you're a consultant.

Best way is in person. The easiest gigs I ever had was when I was nearly starving and needed money. I went out, went to every business I could find that could possibly use a website with a proper backend (so I can take more time and bill more, don't want to do just frontend work). I got about 20 gigs that day, only completed a few over the course of the next year.

Two ways: talk to people you work with, or really go out there and STOP Googling and reading. There is no magic path, just do it.

OR, find an existing consultancy and either try taking out employees to lunch and talking about it, or work for a consultancy for awhile and take notes on how everything operates. How clients are landed, billed, how talent is acquired, etc.
...it's actually a pretty big fucking problem.

LOL, what is it about Apple that brings out so much ANGER on the internet? Seriously, I'm just having a field day, reading all the comments on HN, Ars, The Verge, Reddit, etc. with so many people RAGING. Talking about how much they HATE Apple's products, and it's BULLSHIT that Apple gets so much press coverage.

You don't care about Apple products, yet here you are getting pissed about them and commenting on an Apple-related article.

If all you care about is the new Nokia / Microsoft stuff from today, there is plenty of coverage about that also. Here are a couple links to get you started:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/22/4862952/nokia-lumia-2520-...

http://winsupersite.com/mobile-devices/nokia-lumia-2520-prev...

Also, go to news.google.com and click on the "Technology" section. There are plenty of links about non-Apple stuff, including more about Microsoft and Nokia.
This is already mentioned in the article.
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> Procurement rules are more to guard against corruption and cronyism than incompetence.

Former federal IT contractor here.

The procurement rules were designed for that, yes. But in real world scenarios, those rules effectively do exactly the opposite. Since there are so many hoops for potential vendors to jump through, only the most established players get to bid on most contracts. And in my experience corruption and cronyism is still alive and well in federal IT contracting.
Yes. Add airplay to generic monitors and you've got a solution for enterprises. (Do you know of such a product?)

All of our conference rooms have a wall mounted LCD with a shitty Windows box driving it. Best we can do now is screen sharing with Skype or join.me.

Most of our Mac users just plug into the monitor directly. We'd LOVE to have an untethered solution.
I was thinking the same thing as the OP the other day - most of the sites I visit every day are tailored toward the 1% that gets VC and goes for the gold.

I recently registered startupsinhardmode.com and plan to blog there about the day-to-day challenges that "the 99%" go through (the DNS should propagate shortly if anyone is interested in checking it out).
So far it looks like the best use case for unirest python is for async requests, which python requests doesn't support.
think for your self, little girl.
The Lisp Machines? They sold a few of them, but they ultimately weren't commercially successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

It would be interesting to see how to implement a Lisp machine for the modern day. For it to be useful, it should support some sorts of parallel-processing capabilities that conventional CPUs don't have. Perhaps pmap and preduce as SIMD instructions.
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does typed clojure support dependent types? I would assume like cl it's powerful enough to.
I don't question that they're created with the best intentions, but the most important thing is the end result, not the programming language. And well-intentioned language features don't always work out like they're supposed to.
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Having had the 5S for a few weeks now, all I can say is: why did no iPad get the TouchID treatment? I've been enjoying that feature immensely!
TLDR it's your problem , not Mozilla's. You can still tell your clients to uee another browser, heck they had to install java on their machines for your solution to work... they should not had too, but smart people always make poor technology choices.
How loud are external SSDs compared to HDDs? Do they need a lot of cooling?
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Does anyone know how installing Mavericks affects hard drive space? I'm running on an 128GB SSD and space is always at a premium for me.
This looks bad. You really want to keep people's health data private for many reasons. I can see bad PR, anger, and even legal issues from this.
T989 - Either an international variant, or a T-Mobile one that has been unlocked. 4.1 is readily available, and I think he used ones are ~200.

Or you could find a Nexus 4 used. I bet some of those are in your price range. Neither has LTE, though, not sure if that is a requirement for you.
The version that I just installed from the app store is 13A603.
Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble
Oh really, ya think?
Amazon doesn't have the... 'Washington Infrastructure' to be able to compete at a regulatory level, so they have to compete on price like any other homeless vagabond.
Nope, not using FileVault.
Pick any big company, certainly including all the big tech companies, any company with a brand you've heard of, and any government, and I could put together a dozen compelling "reasons" not to do business with them.

You need to decide whether a company offends your values on balance. Both as a customer of Amazon and as a supplier (author/publisher), I've found them better then average to deal with.

How are they as an employer? No personal experience, but better than WalMart and FoxConn, I'm sure.
T-Mobile may work for your use case (if you're in a coverage zone), with 5GB of their 4G and unlimited EDGE (it was good enough for the original iPhone which relied exclusively on HTML5 apps, right?) for $30/mo prepaid. I don't know how well the iPad works on T-Mobile's network though, YMMV.
Very cool. Agree about the rebranding of IPython, but I'm sure that'll come as the community matures.

IHaskell specific: As a beginning Haskell learner, is there a simple graphing framework that can make graphs shown inline in IPython (of course bindings to D3 etc to make web native graphs would be awesome, but even just images are fine) ... I'm currently learning maths/stats by implementing basic functions and experimenting with them in R, Julia, possibly Haskell etc. Being able to easily do simple graphs is crucial.
Wow, this is really impressive! Kudos.
I find it slightly odd that Apple goes into a decent amount of technical detail on the processor in the iPad - calling out the number of registers and transistors - but still doesn't ever disclose how much RAM is in the thing. This is especially vexing, as my biggest complaint with my current iPad is that it doesn't have enough of it.
Just finished installing this. Upgrade took about 35 minutes total on my macbook air (2011). Was able to run a local Rails 4 app connecting to MySQL with no problems after the upgrade. Trying to install ruby 2.0-p247 now and all the gems and see what happens.
Craig, you're my internet hero today. Much thanks!
My obsession with thin is because of my bike bags. Long time MacBook Pro user (3 diff models), bought a 2013 MacBook Air and now it's nothing to throw it into my bag(s) and schlep it around.
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Including VAT?
The benefit from having multiple iPads is that multiple people can use theirs at once. Multi-user doesn't help that fact, you end up with a family iPad that's just shared without separate user accounts.
I have macbook 2010 pro with 8gb of memory ob board. My machine swaps a lot, it's really gets out of hand. I'm not sure if SSD can fix this problem.
Thanks! Please let me know if/how you end up using it!
No, I'm not. Labor and capital mobility affect the extent to which more demand for labor is a positive for your putative Amazon worker, they do not affect the direction.
About the Android tablets - what they seem to get wrong is the aspect ratio and / or dimensions. I have a rooted Nook Tablet, and I dislike the it because both portrait and landscape are too narrow. I grab my sister's iPad and it seems to be much more natural. Even the iPad mini just shrinks what the iPad has. So yes, Nexus, et. al are cheaper, but the dimensions, for me personally, stink.
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> This was already the case in the US and there is no government mandate for it to be that way.

Hah, in 2009? It really, really wasn't. I bought an off-the-shelf flip phone in 2010 that still used some godawful proprietary connector.

One of my roommates had a phone that used mini-USB, but it was the wrong end (mini-A instead of mini-B), which is a lot like buying an MP3 player and finding a 3.5mm prong sticking out of it instead of a socket. I absolutely do credit government intervention in China and the EU with forcing manufacturers to clean up their act.
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It's quite good, but still far from a discrete GPU.
[Firebase founder here] We're really excited to launch these today! We've seen a ton of interest from our community in support for Ember, and these bindings should make life for these devs a ton easier.

A special thanks to Tom, Yehuda, and the rest of the Ember crew for helping us make these.
Eric Lippert says the yield construct is the most complex of the C# language[1], how hard was it?

I just tried a yield in a recursive function and the output is as simple as a non-recursive function. Are there any edge cases interesting to see?

[1]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/08/24/itera...
The question isn't why they aren't offering upgrades to all 10.5 users, it's why they're not offering upgrades to any 10.5 users.
Awesome, that's the same one that was released as GM a few days ago (the second GM seed). The first GM seed was 13A598.
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a) Apple didn't post this, an interested user did.
b) It's interesting to hackers and has plenty of upvotes.
c) To a lot of people using this site, it is something important.
Steve Jobs also said you'd have to sharpen your fingers to use a tablet smaller than the full-sized iPad. :)
The Retina Mini is $399. So, yeah, it's more than the N7, but it's not twice as much.
I used:

sudo "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume /Volumes/Mavericks/ --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app"

Note the double hyphens before the keywords. The quotes just make it easier to read.
PixelPress is really cool. Their OCR technology is a neat idea to making levels.
However users are not really making games. They're making levels for a game they provide.

We have developed an iPad app which is called GamePress http://www.gamepressapp.com (we had the name first!) its live in the app store right now for free. It is a platform that allows you to actually make a wide variety of games using our behaviour system. We developed a visual programming environment that works like a flow chart.

You're not limited to game mechanic we provide since you have timers, variables, if statements and more.

We also allow our users to share their games really easily to what we call the GamePress arcade. Its a place inside the app where users can play, rate, and even edit (if enabled by the author) each others games.

So far have been getting great reviews in the app store. Teachers have even started using GamePress to teach kids about programming!
SSDs are effectively silent; they have no moving parts.

also, they don't require active cooling (because no moving parts; no friction, low power consumption)
The full-sized iPad is still a must if you want to use it to read PDFs (eg, tabletop RPG books), but otherwise I'd agree that the Mini is generally a more attractive option.
I'm using Mavericks GM with 2011 MBA with 4GB RAM. It's snappy, and definitely feels no worse than Mountain Lion.
Why is there not a like button, send button, or facebook comments anywhere on the announcement page?
Docracy is a really cool service (https://www.docracy.com). It allows you to fork documents and you can find plenty of terms of service examples on their site. You can also fork the docracy terms and change them to your needs since their TOS is open source.

You can also host your TOS/Privacy policy on docracy and link to it from your website so users can see changes that you have made.
My Android phone broke down month ago, I am practically offline since than. Twitter, IM and other stuff was constant source of distraction.

Now I have 'dumb' phone, I only miss GPS and flash light. I still do read twitter, but only every second day together with RSS and log files. My IM has constant status 'Do not disturb unless it is on fire'. Only paying customers have now privilege to interrupt me, we mostly schedule meeting anyway.

60% raise in productivity, I am less tired and I even got time to read a book.
When installing from one of the upgrade-apps or their bootable USB counterparts it installs the whole thing from the disk, nothing downloaded. The download step is basically just for reinstalling w/o an installer.
I was using the ZTE for a month as my main phone. I got the T-Mobile $30/month Walmart plan and kept my iPhone 4 with me. Text input was okay as long as I pressed the buttons a little slower than what I'm used to on an iPhone 4. I think spell check was not yet available - or I didn't notice to turn it on so I had to spell perfectly. The map app would give me incorrect data (store/restaurant locations for Tucson Arizona) and it became annoying enough that I just relied on my iPhone for map stuff. In some rare occasions I couldn't get the phone to dial a number and that required a hard reset. Sometimes I couldn't get it to answer a call. I would press the button to answer but the phone wouldn't respond. I don't know if that's the OS problem or the ZTE not responding correctly to input.

When viewing a missed call I would see the phone number appear first and then the name of the contact replace the number. As if it takes a fraction of a second for it to match the number to the name. It did that every time and I didn't add that many contacts to my phone.

FYI I haven't updated to the most recent Firefox OS release so some of those issues might have been fixed.
By that logic they should have kept the iPad 3 which feels like a brick compared to the rest.