skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin has a gigantic first mover advantage. The free rider alt coins are all essentially based on Bitcoin's blockchain innovation.

Until Bitcoin is broken through advances in computing or a solution better than Bitcoin comes along, Bitcoin is the top of the heap for digital cash.
Basically, yes. I personally will be buying the Air because I like my older iPad's size vs my iPhone. The mini is a great product, but it's just a little too small for me to fit the bedroom/travel entertainment category that I'm looking for. Plus, playing board and light-3d games on the 10" screen is really a joy.
Hackintosh - OS X Mavericks
It's like if you want your CD to have the "compact disc- digital audio" label you have to comply with whatever colored book. People stopped caring about that long ago and won't care much for USB either as long as it works.
Scuttlebutt says next release might be your savior.
It's Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy by Namco. Here's the App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/sky-gamblers-air-supremacy/i...
A z620 with 32gigs of ram, quadro k4000 and two 6 core procs running at 2.66gigs is roughly the same price (within 10%, bear in mind that they are yet to bump to the v2 procs that the apple use.)

Granted it lacks an SSD, but thats an extra £250, depending on what you want to achieve.

Unless you are doing something that really hits the GPU, then this mac is pretty much useless to you. Video editing is mostly IO bound. Only a few effects are use the GPU, let alone can make things faster.
The singular improvement I have been waiting for is using an airplay device as a second monitor.

I have a macbook pro and I hook in with my thunderbolt->DVI connector to get my big monitor.

I can throw an appletv onto the monitor with an hdmi->DVI connection and finally go cordless! This is an improvement that means something real to me!
It would be interesting to see a HN poll on this. It seems to me that HN is mostly pro-Google/Android, anti-Apple, anti-MSFT, anti-FB and anti-Twitter.
My daughter (age 7) used Microsoft Kodu at summer camp this year and really liked it.

http://fuse.microsoft.com/projects/kodu

I haven't had time to play with it, but I loaded it onto a computer for her and she occasionally plays with it still.
Well, where do you go from there really..
Getting a 403 from economist.com (not for the first time). :-(
The CPU and GPUs are going to contribute hugely to the price and it seems impossible to figure out exactly what they cost yet, so I guess all we can do for now is speculate.

Will be interesting to see exactly how it all compares once the info becomes available, for sure.
How easy is this to setup? I have quite a large amount of EC2 instances and really would be interested in a "run once catch all" sort of setup.
I would also add that the project had too many cooks in the kitchen, by some accounts. I have heard there were upwards of 50 distinct companies subcontracting on this project.

I work on projects that are probably on par in terms of complexity. We typically only involve a handful of firms. And even then, coordinating them all is a challenge. I can't fathom making the process work with 50+ firms.

Maybe that number was hyperbole. I don't know. But if it's true, I shudder at the thought.
Amazon to Open Office in Vancouver That Could House More Than 1,000 Workers
I really need to get more creative with my personal apps now that someone can be carrying an iPhone 5S and iPad Air, both that can be iBeacons and accurately track motion. Ugh, there has to be something there!
...at least the administration running things at the time thought...

IIRC, Bush2 was initially against the formation of the DHS. After a week of everyone in Congress asking why he didn't care about teh Children, and also why was he so against spending in their districts, he caved.

Incidentally, I don't assume that Bush2 was against DHS because of the sound organizational principle that the best way to make a group of poorly performing orgs worse is to pack them all together under an additional management layer. He might well not have cared at all, so he could use the opportunity to extract concessions from other politicians.
When you need to finally replace that 2007 machine, Apple obviously wants you to buy another Mac. Screwing over people with perfectly good hardware wouldn't do a whole lot for customer goodwill.
Last year there physically wasn't room for a discrete GPU in the 13" and this year there still isn't.
MailChimp UX on Responsive Email
I'd say the PCIe SSD, quad-core Xeon, dual FirePro graphics & 12GB ECC RAM are going to add up.

Of course, not everyone needs all of those things.
tl;dr: It's great. Not much has changed in a major way, but there are improvements all around. The performance and battery life of the OS is much improved. It's free - and you should upgrade.
..And iPad isn't very personal device usually either. Although, multiple fingerprints would be excellent way to open different user profiles if there was a support for that anyway. I think they'll do this in the next version, and support 5 finger prints for each user.
Apple challenges Microsoft, Google with iWork collaborative tools
Well I can confirm that it does appear to work on Fedora 19 using the Open JDK, but it is slow on my machine (i7 with 8GB of RAM and an SSD). In fairness though it does make it clear with this warning message when you run it that this is to be expected:

"./phpstorm.sh
WARNING: You are launching the IDE using OpenJDK Java runtime.

ITS KNOWN TO HAVE PERFORMANCE AND GRAPHICS ISSUES!
SWITCH TO THE ORACLE(SUN) JDK BEFORE REPORTING PROBLEMS!

NOTE: If you have both Oracle (Sun) JDK and OpenJDK installed
please validate either WEBIDE_JDK, JDK_HOME, or JAVA_HOME environment variable points to valid Oracle (Sun) JDK installation.
See http://ow.ly/6TuKQ for more info on switching default JDK."

So yeah, I guess they weren't kidding in their list of requirements. Oracle JDK or suffer a degraded performance.
Afaik, Dell's last 16:10 laptops were running on Clarksfield - so you're missing twice the CPU and GPU performance, as well as high speed SSD, lower power consumption and the new high speed ports...

No need to get a MacBook for that though, Dell's latest Precisions and HP's Elitebooks are just as good (but have a worse design/build quality, as usual)...
It's not surprising that it's rising in value. People are holding on to ~12M coins (worth approx. $2.4B) and are hyping it up so that more people buy them.

The more people that buy them, the more the price will go up, the more that they'll be worth, the more that people will buy them....
tl;dr Mavericks isn't the name of a cat.

This article would more appropriately be called a "rambling" than a "review"
With the latest version of VMWare fusion, you could probably do that.
I want to know whether I should create a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy page for my website.

Yes, that shouldn't be up for discussion IMO. Yes, you need one of each. Both help tell people what kind of company you are (at a meta level) and both are signals to search engines that you are "real".

As for how, find some companies you like and align with and use those as rough guides. You'll surely find ways to differentiate your product/service/needs so you'll have no problems once you do that.
you can also downscale before blurring and upscale after blur. 4x without much noticeable difference in image quality. This gives a speed boost in two respects - less pixels and a smaller radius
I like Typescript too, but this is a little over the top. Typescript's typing is nowhere near as expressive as Haskell's is (nor was it ever intended to be). I think of it more as a nicer way of doing Closure Compiler-like annotations plus you get a built in transpiler for many of the handier es6 features.

edit: oh, and tooling, but I'm not normally on Windows for development so I haven't played much with the Visual Studio integration.
Only people who don't know how the government works.
That's a ridiculous distinction. If you hire someone to represent you, you are responsible for their words and actions on your behalf.
I haven't used it but I believe an app like SuperDuper can clone your drive and let you do that.
At this point they are not even trying anymore. They put up the same tactic as with the iPhone 5C (marginally cheaper, definitely worse device than the top line just to make the step to the high-end device seem more reasonable and will be taken faster whilst getting rid of their old iPad supply), made everything a bit thinner, did some software updates and upgraded the hardware components.

So, enjoy your time waiting for the NEW IPAD AIR 2014, TWICE AS LIGHT, NOW WITH FINGER PRINT SCANNER. RETINA MACBOOK AIR 2014. You can say anything you want, but this is nothing new. Gimmicks, I tell you. Which is absolutely fine if it weren't for Apple to market this stuff as revolutionary, insane new concepts beating the competition at every point. They are basically scamming customers and they don't even care as long as they get an Apple logo with it.

To those Apple zealots down voting me: do you really need to suppress criticism this bad? Maybe it is because you are in denial or something? Feel bad, because it hurts to know you are being scammed?
4GB of RAM is really a travesty on these laptops, 8GB should be minimum :-)...
Payments by Apple is Coming
That's an interesting thought.

It's presumably only a matter of time before the heart of Apple's PC line is converted to touchscreen. Whether they will carry the Macbook branding or iPad branding or a mixture of both will be interesting.
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You can most certainly up your price. The only question is how the market responds.

Miners have zero incentive to sell their bitcoins for less than the cost of producing them. Left to themselves, the price should approach the minimum cost of producing bitcoins (since they do have incentive to undercut each other as much as possible).

Speculators could respond to a price increase by miners by dumping their inventory on the market somewhere between the old break-even mining price and the new break-even mining price, undercutting the miners and lowering the price. This would go on until either the speculators exhausted their supply of cheap bitcoins, or the miners were all driven out of business.

The real question is how the supply of the miners compares to the supply of the (active) speculators. If the miners are the principal supply of new bitcoins, and speculators are by and large just holding their bitcoins until some future time when the price is even higher, then the miners could totally up the global price by upping their own prices.
It also instantly removes the concept of personal responsibility, or any incentive to try.

Communism failed. Remember?

Why bother getting a job when you can just vote in whichever party is going to raise the 'basic income' the most?

Why bother, as a political party, with having good solid policies that will benefit everyone, when you can just bribe the electorate with money, by promising to raise the 'basic income' paid for by future debt!
When the MacBook Air was first introduced it was more expensive than the other MacBooks, it was only after a few product cycles that it fell in price and ate the lower end of the MacBook line and became the affordable product.
I doubt we'll see one. Not only that but the suspect geekbench scores for the new Mac Pro are timid.

Apple is hurting the Pro line. If they just gave it a normal form factor and the best current hardware, I think it would be a better people pleaser.

This is a mac-mini on steroids and I'm disappointed.
I'm sure they have some real 'revolutionary' products on the road map, but from a business standpoint, why change what they are doing? They are profitable with their current product releases because of their crazy following. Small iterations to their technology that (my guess) cost very little but they can sell at a higher margin? Money in the bank. That 16gb HD is to make sure you pay them monthly for your necessary iCloud space. We are slaves to the Apple ways!

I'm sure we'll see something in the next year or two that is actually brand new that's not just a small upgrade to their current line up.
One requires you to bring coke to the afterparty and one requires your daddy to go to the same dentist as an official in NOVA, can pass a background check, and you can keep a straight face talking about national security theater.
I attempted to access the link and this is what Apple gave me (http://i.imgur.com/4aX2QaT.png). I guess I'll try later...
Yes, it's 2013 and both Verizon and ATT are still charging $50/month for 5GB. Until unlimited plans at reasonable prices become available, cloud+mobile is useless to me and it'd be more affordable to store media on my device instead of streaming it.
What's New in OS X Mavericks
I agreed 100%. I'm assuming that it will come next year (or whenever) when/if they have multi-user support in iOS. Scan your finger, get logged in as your user.
Yeah, definitely bit disappointing. They are using quite large battery, integrated graphics, and still reach relatively poor battery life. Quick comparison to Air shows that while Air gets 13 minutes/watt-hour (take that SI!) according to the specs, new rMBP gets only 7.5 minutes/watt-hour (both being 13" models).

15" model gets only 5 minutes/watt-hour, but I guess that difference is explained with discrete GPU and larger display.
In mid-2012 Leopard users were offered a free DVD upgrade to Snow Leopard to get the App Store (and access to later upgrades).
2013 – a year with minimal extreme weather events in the US
They already have OCR for the Google Book project (I assume). And they have this project, would it be difficult to combine the two?
Not really, neither the environments nor the personnel directly involved on software development are even remotely similar between the campaign and the executive branch.
As the owner of a recording studio I'd guess he already owns the software.
There are a ton of vertical applications (think industrial/manufacturing, etc.) built on an iPad2 plus purpose-built case with sensors, etc.

The margins will only get better on the older hardware, and there's no way they'd walk away from that stream.
If you look at the back of the iPhones, the iPhone 3GS was the last one to name itself. Recently an Apple store employee wasn't to happy that I kept saying iPad 4.

I suppose in a world where change is frequent and incremental rather than dramatic and rare removing the version number is appropriate to minimize consumer confusion.

What strikes me more about this iPad Air is the price points. $499 16GB wifi only is a very hard sell to the mass market when a Nexus 7 16GB comes in at $230. Size matters here, but I can see Apple being in big trouble when Google's tablet is half the price and has a handful of more advanced features. I guess that is why Apple hired that Burberry executive last week. They can sit right next to the Vertu store.
Accelerator physicists at SLAC have generated twisted light
Apparently Portland Oregon lead the way on this - by focusing in the early 90's on new zoning, bicycle pathways and greener parks, they became a nicer place to live, so people who could move (young,professional) choose to move there - and young professional people attract companies who want to hire them (not it turns out so much the other way round)

this seemed to work so well for Portland it also arose in other nice places to live and work - Denver apparently being a winner in that respect internationally too.
When it comes to privacy, proof is better than promise.
The strategy of compressing RAM pages before resorting to swapping them out is a nice addition (discussed on p. 17 of the review). Something similar is in the works for Linux as well: http://lwn.net/Articles/545244/

The other main highlights from my perspective: "App Nap" energy-saving API (p. 13), generally better battery life, even on old hardware (p. 18), & support for offline speech-to-text (p. 23).
I'm sure they lose money or are right on the edge with some Prime customers.

That said:

* Large-volume shippers have always gotten much lower prices than you'll get walking into a UPS store. Amazon is an uber-volume shipper.

* Their warehouse network minimizes the actual distance products must travel on average.

* I naïvely assume they've worked with carriers to optimize how they interface with them (both digitally and physically; e.g. boxes stacked/arranged in certain ways for pickup).

* Amazon often does not have the lowest prices for things, especially small/cheap items. If you buy a $5 widget you could have gotten for $3 at the local hardware store, some of that is probably making up for cheap shipping.
That is the method I used on an 8GB flash drive, worked great.
Not really - I use hardware EQs, comps, etc. The only software costs are Reaper and a reverb (which I hope to replace with a Bricasti next year). I ended up dumping Pro Tools over about a two year period and switching back to all hardware. So it's a disappointment to me to see this pricing. It's as though they've said, "Musicians - they can just buy a regular Mac. The Mac Pro is for graphics and video people who need all this extra hardware."
Jesus, between this and Android, Microsoft's cash cow has now been fully commoditized. Ouch.
off topic: I would be more entertained by the name Sea Lion. Although Mavericks is a cool name too :-)
The email field in your account is not public information. You have to actually put it in the 'about' section. Your email is not there as of a few seconds ago.
Not any more. The rules were changed / clarified a few years ago:

http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/11/how-to-comply-with-new-rev...

Apple mentions their adoption of the rules in this press release (scroll down to "Retrospective Adoption of Amended Accounting Standards"):

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/25Apple-Reports-Firs...

That is how they've been able to give customers free iOS upgrades all this time without having to defer any revenue from the original sale of the hardware. They are apparently now applying the same practices to OS X software.
The thing is, companies don't pay tax on sales, but on profits. And Amazon is a company with a very strange attitude to profit: it doesn't seem to like it. In the year 2012, it made a worldwide loss of $39m, even as it had sales totalling $61bn. That year was an aberration, with a costly acquisition weighing the company down, but previous years have been similar. 2011 saw just $631m net income on worldwide sales of $48bn, and in 2010 – the company's most profitable year to date – it scraped $1.15bn of profit on revenue of $34bn.

631/48000=?

1,15/34=?

Those are your margins. If they are less than T+400bps[1] you are "losing money" for investors. Unless, there are other investors looking to take the stock off your hands.

It's hard to imagine where all those investors think the extra profits will come from. Do they expect Amazon to suddenly announce one day that it has finished trying to grow, and will be raising prices immediately? Or do they think that eventually, every single one of its competitors will have given up, and folded beneath the company's relentless expansion?

Unless you have a real answer for this, you are betting on the greater fool theory. Of course, you may have a better answe than this. [Digging around a bit, it seems to (/may) be tax avoidance. Amazon is eating fulfillment costs in lock-step with its increasing gross profits on product sales].

[1] technically, multiplied by another factor of around 1.8, which is the sales/asset ratio. This number appears to be <6%. http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2013/1/8/2164901-...
the beauty here that it sometimes produces a Musk at all. Nothing else does it. The closest we'd got is Gates - while not SV geographically, it is the same approach - make money in hi-tech and apply it to solve a big problem.
As to whether or not you should -- the answer is yes.

It's good to let people know, upfront, what you are doing and how using the website will affect them. Especially, what rights you are reserving / requiring and obliging them to agree to (b/c most ToS's derive consent to the agreement implicitly just by using the product).

A free template is better than nothing. However, find popular sites (and sites similar to what your site does) and let those be your guide.

Do you need to see a lawyer?...always, if possible. It's always money well spent and a lot cheaper when you get a lawyer involved upfront.

Check out any Google service, Facebook, Twitter, etc. That's a great starting point, but more detailed then you might need. I would need to know a little more about your project, if you are looking for something more specific.
Right now I think you can't, unless you can get your hands on a cheap dual socket motherboard for the new Xeons. Even then, the PCIE SSD will get you over the limit.

I really like the new Mac Pro, even if it's not upgradeable...
http://www.apple.com/ipad-air/ says 2x for both CPU and GPU.
what's the alternative? are specialists offering liquidity in markets that HFTs aren't?
This xeon is $343 at retail for 3.5GHz quad core. http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-1...

I know it's not linear, but you really expect Apple to be paying $1000 to $1500 for a 3.7GHz quad core?

I'm sure I'm one of those people you're thinking of. I built a PC last year for $1k and it appeared either identical or better than the maxed out iMac which was ~$3k.
Why is this comment at the top? I don't know what else people want. You can't rewrite the script every year, iteration after iteration apple has improved this device and it only gets better. There is nothing wrong with that.
Multiple display support is always I wanted. Finally it is there!
So we'd be better off environmentally shipping a whole new food processor?
I use it as my main phone, it has a little way to go (to be expected).

[EDIT] - it is stonkingly cheap, and is amazing for the price.
Ahh, I wondered about that. Profile updated.
Actually...

if you don't trust Google...

you probably shouldn't run it.

As it is pretty difficult to run reliable audits these days... I would not run it. You open yourself up to everything from the American Homeland Security people to Child Pornographers.

It's just not worth it.
I would think iWorks is targeting the same market ClarisWorks did from 1984 until the 90s. [1]

It's the same reason iOS is coming into corporate environments: people want to use it.

iWorks is never going to be a threat to Microsoft in corporate environments, really. But the fact that Apple's customers don't need Microsoft at all just as Microsoft is taking a big step into consumer devices is probably an issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks
Ask HN: HTML Table fiddler?
Does anyone know of any 'fiddler'-type sites (ala jsfiddler, cssdesk, etc.) which have specific support for customizing HTML tables? The use-case would be to beautify tabular data (e.g. the result of an SQL query) before pasting it into an email.

I would like to POST table data to such a site and then have a convenient way to do things like:

- change the font, th background color
- highlight specific cells, rows and/or columns
- add / remove even-odd coloring
- change column alignment, padding

Perhaps I could even delete, rearrange rows and columns.

When I'm done fiddling I can then just copy and paste the table into a email.

???
I would love to know if John Siracusa is paid by the word.
Out of curiosity and a bit off-topic. What laptops, both Windows and Linux and regardless of price, currently compete with the Macbook Pro on specs and the small details like battery life, backlit keyboard, etc?

Are there any?
Looks nicely done and simple to use :) But I wonder why I wouldn't build this myself? It's not particularly hard and using a third-party service adds an extra dependency. Perhaps I'm missing something and the home page needs a better use case.
VMware has done this for a few years now... I've been enjoying it on Linux already by running in a VM ;-)