skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never used the HDMI on my phone but I have on my tablet. I love being able to load an SD card with movies via my computer, insert the SD card into my tablet and go. Works great on planes and anywhere else that streaming is not possible. And if I am in a location where I can watch something on a larger screen, I can use the HDMI output instead. IMO, it is unfortunate that Apple never embraced the idea of alternative I/O.

But I agree that this doesn't have to be a war with only one winner. In my house, we've both Android and iOS devices. And everybody sees pros/cons of their devices of choice.
You have a very good point; it can be very difficult to judge how far you are through a project. In retrospect, time is often the best metric.
If you cycle to/from work, you'll soon get used to having an applet showing you the weather all along the route and judging when to make a dash to avoid the torrential rain and gale-force winds as you cross a narrow sea bridge.
"Afterall, the MacBook Air wasn't a competitor to the netbooks - it was a competitor to the ultrabooks being touted by Intel et al."

This is backwards: the original MBA was introduced in 2008, and Intel only introduced the "Ultrabook" branding several years later. The MBA was largely panned as a far-too-expensive Apple attempt to cover their flank from the inexorable advance of the netbook. It was only when the iPad and competitive Android tablets put paid to netbooks that Intel came around to the design.
I was looking at mobile traffic patterns a few years ago for Oceania, and over 90% of the traffic was ios.

The other important factor for HNers is rate and volume of app purchases, the last figures I saw there were also completely dominated by ios - that is to say, Apple users buy tons of apps compared to Android.

Would be interesting to see the current stats.
I'm very curious if Gates'/Ellison's/Allen's sons (or any of this guys that made fortune with computer programming/software) know about computer programming. Sometime ago I've read (a sorry, but I don't remember where) that Gates' sons could to use the computer about two hour per day only.
If you don't overcomplicate your software, this problem is much less significant. If your code is easy, fixing bugs will be easy.
Then market it. SUSB - SuperUSB. Who wouldn't buy something that's the-same-but-Super?
Show HN: 2013 Startup School Sketchnotes [pdf]
And Now for a Bit of Levity...
Not that it really matters and it's kind of a dead point; but, damn, does it piss me off to see Apple's pricing structure between the iPad models simply because of internal storage. Really? Additional 16 GB of internal storage costs $100???? 112 GB of flash costs $300??? Especially considering that iOS takes 3.3 GB out of 16GB.... 20%.... 20% let that sink in...... the OS takes up 20% of the storage on the device you just paid a minimum of $500 for.

Considering Apple's pricing, they are stealing $20 from their customers with every sale of a WiFi iPad. Hear that, lawyers??? Apple is stealing or defrauding $20 from every customer with every sale.
Honest question: what do you mean by Linux being slow?
This is really cool, well done!

Be sure to send a message to the IPython-dev mailing list if you're happy to recieve contributions and/or feedback (also from IPython developers).
"If you are writing a package manager for a new non-js language, do whatever it takes to get that new language to load modules the way node does. The right way."

http://dominictarr.com/post/25516279897/why-you-should-never...

http://dontkry.com/posts/code/modules-the-right-way.html

To be more specific, what npm does that pip, debian, and rubygems don't do is nested dependencies, which is a wonderful advancement.
When the Hackintosh movement started that was the case, sure. Nowadays it's a lot easier - tools like MultiBeast make it trivial on fully compatible hardware.
Nokia World: First Windows Tablet, Big Lumia Phone, and Instagram (Finally)
They are pixel to pixel the same in display so it really does not make much of a difference--no more of a difference than reading glasses would make at least. In your case perhaps that's worth the $100 and extra bulk, but you can tell where Apple thinks the future is.
I watch movies/netflix on mine, 10" (especially a lighter model) is not too big for me, or watching with another person.
What was Apple's most exciting announcement today?
This is why doctors should get a liberal arts education instead of going "pre-med". So they learn classic humanities such as the "Trojan Horse"
I'd bet the animation hides the fact that the transition is actually that slow.
How to refresh Safari in iOS Simulator with your keyboard
Yes but then that first 80% looks much less impressive because it took a lot more time to write. When the product is finished it shows, though.
"Today we're going to revolutionize pricing. Today we announce a new era for the Mac. Today we announce that Mavericks is free."

This is a quote from the Verge's liveblog of an Apple guy. Note he said "Mac", which made me think of it.
In the analogy, the metric is distance, not time. So I think the metric in the software proverb is feature-completeness.
And if iOS users are 5x more likely to spend money on apps, that matters too.
True, but I don't follow how that's connected to my comment... maybe I should explain the background of my comment.

The iPhone 5S (A7) has x1 the graphics power as the iPad 4.
The iPad 5 (A7) has x2 the graphics power of the iPad 4.

So... how to get double the graphics power out of the same SoC (A7)? That was the puzzle (likely ans: x2 frequency)
It's marketing; trying to convey an emotion, an experience, of how much apple is the popular kid and you should all be part of it. It's taking off! It's all about preaching to the church of Apple.
The Obamacare Website Didn't Have to Fail. How to Do Better Next Time
As far as I can tell, the vision and values of the company have remained largely the same since its inception. The big missing piece was a product; although, even after the release, product-market fit still hasn't been completely established.

I think it would be wrong to just ignore the hard work put in during those first two years, even though there wasn't anything tangible to show for it, except for a few mockup and some broken code (which is currently not being used at all). I'd feel a little guilty if (let's say), the product takes off and the original co-founders received nothing because a new entity was formed even though the idea remains the same.
It's free for anyone with supported hardware, by the commonly accepted definition of "free".
But the Air is the heavier model...
Better question: is BMW losing the car wars? ;)
Friends don't send friends links to HN threads
It's pretty hard to get rid of tracking completely:

* You probably want to use a mobile network (like GSM) for phone calls and data. As long as you're booked into the network, the carrier knows (approximately) where you are.

* If you use Wifi, you can be tracked by your MAC address

To just reduce the amount of tracking by companies (not governments) a little bit, it would help to use distributed services like XMPP instead of Whatsapp and Facebook. Then you could choose service providers that you trust, or host your own server, and still have interoperability with other people. Because businesses like lock-in, this will probably not happen for the majority of people.
As much as I love my hometown paper, the Washington Post has never been the most influential newspaper in U.S. political circles except for a few brief years around Watergate. The NY Times and WSJ are far more influential today. And all newspapers pale before the power of 24 hour news channels.

The Washington Post is a damaged paper and damaged brand, which is why the Grahams sold it and why Bezos could afford to pay cash for it.
In addition to publishing the code, the IHaskell page also links to a blog post about how to go about implementing IPython kernels [0]. The implementation is entirely in Haskell and doesn't use any IPython code, but simply communicates with the frontends via ZeroMQ networking library.

[0] http://andrew.gibiansky.com/blog/ipython/ipython-kernels/
I bought my current laptop in late 2011 for $750. Specs are 4 GB (which I cheaply upgraded to 8GB right away), GT 540M (1GB dedicated graphics memory), Core i7 @ 2.2 GHz, USB 3.0.

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook_air, in terms of specs it blows away even today's Macbooks -- two years later!

Moral: If you're looking at the higher end of the performance/price spectrum because you do things like gaming and compiling large programs like the Linux kernel, Macbooks aren't just overpriced, they're underpowered.
Market share is often not the best metric to base those decisions on, especially considering iOS has historically generated more revenue for developers than Android, despite market share.

It's also pretty common for companies to sink money into developing native apps for either platform only to find that they get few users and ultimately generate little to no revenue. It totally varies depending on the nature of the product or service, but I've rarely encountered situations where market share was a primary indicator of what platforms a product or service needed to support.
The author is probably not a native speaker of English. For example: Their name doesn't sound German, but that comma makes perfect sense when you translate the sentence to German. Whatever their native language may be, it might have similar rules of comma usage.
People block Flash for a variety of reasons; ads are only one. Drive-by security breaches and terrible energy performance are two others.
I'm not in America, I'm on Hacker News, which despite being composed mostly of Americans, is its own community with its own context. I don't see why we should accept the American's ignorant definition of Left any more than we accept their definition of 'hacking'.
>All I want to do is browse the Internet.

There's an app for that. It's called Safari and it comes on the $299 iPad Mini. What is your argument, again?

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-ipad/ipad-mini
If that were the case they wouldn't have first used it on their most popular product (and their most profitable). You don't test out crazy ideas on your golden egg.
I think you read only the first page? There are several, look at the bottom of the first one.
Your laptop is huge, hot, and feels cheap. The MacBook Air is svelt, runs cool, and not only feels but is solid.
Since it can't fit in your pocket I find the iPad is much easier to lose than any phone is.
Apple TV with Airplay in theory is awesome for presentations. I've setup Apple TV on a bunch of LED screens for a client, with the intention of using Airplay for displaying presentations from Macbooks.
So far, the solution has been close to useless. The lag is unbearable, even for simply actions like changing webpages and PPT pages. In the end, users end up going back to HDMI or even Thunderbolt to DVI/VGA connectors for presentations.
To make it worse, it seems that different versions of OS X will give a variety of glitchy behavior on Airplay.
I tried to buy bitcoins when they were $60. I look for sites that would sell me bitcoins for USD. It was so hard and the ways to buy them were so damn complicated. I had to sign up for a 3rd party site to import bitcoin to mtgox. The 3rd party site needed me to upload my personal identity information to verify my bank account. I was ready to do that as well, except they said it'd take 10+ days to verify. Also someone explain to me how that is anonymous when they have all my information if I had uploaded my driver's license and my bank account information.

I got frustrated and just stopped looking to buy bitcoins. I was aware of irc channels too but I just don't trust them.
And then there was money gram, what the actual fuck, the fees were so high.
I could buy them, if I send my money to an account in a foreign bank in japan. Such bullshit.
And this fluctuating price isn't very impressive either.
Apple iWatch Concept Combines Nike Fuelband with iOS Apps
This is actually a decent mock :P
Nobody slogs through the net right now about you (or me) because we're not worth the effort. In ten years time? Twenty years? What if one of us ends up under any kind of media spotlight?

Years ago I ran a website that made me notable enough to sustain the focused attention of a single dedicated person. They had no problem figuring out my address simply from bits of information I had (naively) published years before that. Don't underestimate the longevity of data.
This was posted a few days earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576231
Is there a link between oarfish and earthquakes?
This would all have been avoided if he had written "jr yvxr unpxvat guvatf naq qba’g jnag gb fgbc" on his website instead.
> Specific to 37signals: How did they make the video? Did the video guy traveled to each and every employee in the video to tape them?

He did! It was kind of cool to spend a day with a coworker in my town.
Actually, a lot of that 99% would respond "it's called the Democratic Party".
I see your logic, but calling it "paid for by investors" is not accurate. Maybe "not run with aggressive short-term behaviour like some shareholders would like".
Yes but the waterfall paper goes out of its way to say that iteration between non-adjacent steps is a bad thing. It's still the anti-thesis to Agile.
(author of harp here)

Sword indeed looks very cool, and yes, it is almost identical to Harp.

People should really pay attention to this approach because I'm fairly confident this is where static web servers/generator are headed. By lazily compiling only the assets that are needed when requested we save a stupendous amount of cpu cycles and we can keep the development workflow much more natural and rapid. Regenerating the world as Jekyll does, is ridiculously slow, awkward (spews out static files everywhere), and still requires a static web server to serve the files.

Today many people are manually setting up pre-compiling with tools like Grunt and Make to do their pre-compiling but I don't expect this to last much longer due to the cognitive overhead of maintaining these scripts and the lack of features such as layouts and partials. Not sure if sword supports this but I couldn't imagine harp without it.

@svoroval - Best of luck with Sword. Looks like we are on the same page :)

@taylorlapeyre - FWIW SASS support in Harp is right around the corner. We held off until node-sass didn't require a compile step to be installed. It now meets that requirement.
If Amazon ever started charging sales tax in Maryland, then I'd probably stop purchasing from them too.
This is part of a bigger company wide strategy to offer software updates for free for their products, a strategy they pioneered with iOs.

There's also a huge difference in what each update adds when compared to 8.1 . Where 8.1 tries to fix all the initial issues with W8 (missing start button anyone?), Maverick adds serious new features (1+ hour of battery, compressed RAM).

The free iWork suite is a direct attack to MSFT Office. Giving it away for free will pay long term in decreasing market share for Office. Office H&O is $220. Buy a Mac/iPhone/iPad and you get that for free.
Selection. The brands we are used to is not always offered @ Costco. However, it seems to be much easier to subsidize membership costs with Costco, than with Amazon Prime.
It's not a new idea, and it's not a bad idea.

These kinds of things are best handled as an integrated component of the operating system, rather than a hacky third party add on, and are likely more viable now that we have so much more available CPU time, on multiple cores so it doesn't even impact latency, and better compression algorithms.

Also note that Ram Doubler, per the Ambrosia Software description, didn't just do compression, it also re-used free RAM that other applications had allocated to them while they weren't running, depending on the cooperative multitasking nature of the operating system to avoid conflicts. Before yielding, it would either compress or swap out that "borrowed" RAM.

A properly virtual memory system and cooperative multitasking make these techniques not particularly useful, while improvements in technology since have made compressed RAM more useful.
It's not backed[1], and it's not a commodity. It's a collection of bytes that has value because a small minority of them are being accepted in exchange for real products, and at present a much larger number of speculators are willing to bet on more people wanting them in future. And as you've pointed out yourself, there are two very obvious and likely future scenarios in which it would become very difficult to buy anything with BTC.

[1]The "mining" is a clever hack against crashes in that it makes speculators reluctant to divest their BTC holdings for less than they've spent acquiring the BTC. But if you can't reliably convert the BTC back to GPU time (assuming you actually wanted it) it's still intrinsically worthless.
That's been the case for the last few releases. When Lion came out, a lot of major apps dropped support for Snow Leopard within a year. I stuck around on SL for a while because I preferred (and still prefer) the way that it handled Spaces, but I eventually didn't feel like I could keep missing out on updates just for that.
Opt-out 'consent' is not consent in any meaningful way, so simply treat all of this data as obtained without consent and, well, it's clear from existing healthcare legislation on how to handle such distribution of data without explicit consent by an informed patient.

IMHO the startup should be happy if this ends up with just a bankruptcy of their company, instead of criminal charges for the individual people involved.
Actually, I would characterize this as the removal of dead code that brought down the system, which is basically the opposite.
Lol, am I the only one who thought of Michael Douglas in "Falling Down" while reading the last paragraph?
It's not an exchange (more of an escrow), and I've not used it but https://bitbargain.co.uk looks OK. They make the right noises regarding security and the prices seem reasonable.
Nice. Would be good to contribute it to Traceur, as teams wanting to early-adopt ES6 will be using that!
Look at Microsoft smallbasic http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
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The metric given to the client is that of time, but the metric that ends up being measured is (for lack of a better term) "visible product completion", i.e. percentage of product that 'looks' completed. If I read OP right, the last 20% that is being talked about in the article is mostly a nip here and a tuck. The overall product, from this point onwards, almost always remains largely constant.

To bring in yet another analogy, think of the project as a car being refurbished. The last 20% of work may not change much in terms of external chassis, but it is all about fine-tuning the engine, and the drivetrain. The client still sees the same car that you showed him at "80% done," except now the engine runs much better and the car purrs like a sexy, sexy kitten.

The problem, IMHO, is you can't give an accurate metric no matter how much you try.

If you give a liberal estimate and end up doing 80% of the product in 50% of the time, the client will expect you to finish the 20% in 12.5% of the original time-frame - the very 20 % that almost always takes about 80% of time. On the other hand, if you take 80% of the estimated time-frame to deliver 80% of the product, the remaining 20% will always trip you up because it almost always needs another 80% of time.

I've found that the best way to keep everyone happy is to finish 80% of the product in 50% of the time but show the client 50% of the product and spend the remaining 50% of time, finishing the 20%. It's a win-win, IMHO.
Hmm, I thought hard mode was toggling the program in using the switches on the front panel. After you translated to machine code.
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Recent but relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
Those are links. Providing lots of references is usually considered a good thing.
The install is ~8GB
I think usage numbers for one single device need to be paired with ownership/usage of other devices by the same people in order to be more meaningful. A lot of people keep talking about how the PC is dead. But I spend roughly 10hrs a day in front of a laptop (which is still considered a PC, AFAIK). So if I am doing anything online, it is more often than not from my laptop rather than my phone or tablet. There are still many things that I'd prefer to do from my laptop so I am also just as likely to get up and go to the laptop than pull out my phone or reach for the tablet. When the laptop is not available, the tablet will do. It would be interesting to see how many iPad (and other tablet) users don't even have another system to use, thus do everything on it. If I didn't have another system, I would use my tablet more. But I don't need to.
> This is part of a bigger company wide strategy to offer software updates for free for their products, a strategy they pioneered with iOs.

Pioneered?

Android updates have been free since day one.
Given that the gold 5s was incredibly popular at launch, would it really be surprising that someone wants an ipad with the same option?
Tonymac is the best you'll find:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/

Their recommended builds are excellent, even if you were only to use them for Windows.
> Honestly I'm not sure what a good solution would look like, but I don't think it's as simple as "trust us."

Didn't mean to imply that any sufficiently large organization shouldn't have an audit trail and reasonable accountability!
If you try and run `make` in Terminal it will prompt you to install the command line tools.
They mentioned all the Apple pro apps are getting updates to take advantage of the Mac Pro.
I'm kind of surprised how close Typed Clojure is to Typed Racket. At a quick glance, they're almost indistinguishable.
The Deep Space Window Manager
HIPAA exists in the States.
Largest existing survey shows 19% support name change for the Redskins
Awesome job. It works....graphics are decent and sound is great.
Look up the 1999 WorldCom outage due to a screwed-up load of Lucent's Jade platform upgrade. Fun times. Best I can say about that is that within a year WCOM execs had bigger problems than just pissing off CBOT....
I couldn't find it on Spotify - feel free to add it to the playlist if you can find it.
Is it on Spotify?
France proposes taxing data taken out of EU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 ?
Wow, this article is really a piece of junk. You can't say "Apple sells more iPads in 3 days than...", in the present tense, and then use data for an exceptional launch event. At the end of October 2013, you can't base a trend on data that compares 2012 with 2011. And so on.
Apple Finds Amazingnocity In The Expected (writes Andy Ihnatko)
Judge Orders Goldman Sachs to Pay Programmer’s Legal Bills
Of course, there's a fourth quadrant: "agile as understood and implemented in the real world", and that probably has as much to do with the way Agile is promoted as gargantuan waterfall catastrophes do with '80s style software engineering practice.

In my jaundiced view, none of this shit works right, and we'll be much the better off the sooner we all stop pretending that buying bags of magic beans will do anything other than make a bunch of cynical grifters rich and their naïve dupes miserable.
Bragging rights on HN.
One case I've heard is when you don't have any changing requirements and the domain is well known. E.g. engine control software.
Man, very very nice, I loved the blog, very insightful.
It's easy to write a script that does one thing in exactly one way, but it's hard to build something that everyone can use.