skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It surprises me that they've just ditched the iPad 3/4 altogether from the comparison page, though they still sell refurbished iPad 4s for $379 in the store.

It seems to me that this is to put a floor under the second hand value; in terms of bang-for-the buck, the right price for a used iPad 2 should really be about $175 by now, but it's rare to see one under $200.

One reason the iPad 2 remains attractive to many (especially musicians) is that peripherals - there hasn't been that much take-up of Apple's Lightning connector by people who make add-on hardware.
Your point is undermined by the fact that reddit hasn't lived up to its hype (and I believe its estimated valuation has gone down lately). Myspace was supposed to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a few years ago. A large current userbase does not a stable value make.
Please, don't skip the last step and make sure that you test them, too!

http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/51/

:)
They aren't trying to inform you of useful specs, they are trying to wow you and make you think this thing is new and revolutionary. If they don't mention the RAM, then they probably haven't upgraded it.
PHPStorm is more focused and coherent and includes some features that IDEA + PHP plugin doesn't, IMO. If I were a full-time PHP developer, I'd use PHPStorm, but for my occasional PHP needs, IDEA + PHP plugin is ideal.

PyCharm is much the same - for full-time Python development, I'd prefer it to IDEA + plugin.
Not only is Amazon price competitive, saving the 2 hours going to the store and back is a huge deal.

Amazon has eliminated about 90% of my non-food shopping.
It seems Goldman Sachs attempted to commandeer the criminal justice system to retaliate against a former employee, and succeeded in doing so. It is not in the jurisdiction of police to act as arbiters of employment disputes -- that is for the civil court system. Whatever the allegations against Mr. Aleynikov, this I am sure we can all agree on.
You mean Not Invented Here.
Just to reiterate myself - IMO, PHPStorm, PyCharm etc. are slightly more featureful and more coherent for their respective languages than IDEA + plugin.
I don't know why everyone keeps bringing this up. The whole point of the license applies to distribution. Even if it said you should distribute privately used modifications, that is unenforceable and stupid.
I wonder if part of the reason why most everyone uses the word 'startup' is because the alternatives 'small business', 'lifestyle business', or 'SaaS business' are just not sexy or cool to say.

It would be good for the overall entrepreneurial community if both were given their due attention (and the credit they deserve) but the tech media loves to drum up the hype for the former and it's hard not to be influenced by it.

I'm fairly unaffected by the hype and would like to start my own company but even I cringe at the thought of calling it a small business even if it has no chance of raising VC (and doesn't need to).
Would love to see the next month or two out on how monetization is coming along.
Get and give $5 of Bitcoin for every new person you send to
So glad to hear it!!
Valgrind looks like an amazing tool. I am still a bit giddy to use a C with function prototypes, // style comments and enums, to be honest.
>Second, you have your employees. They may technically work for you, but let’s be honest, you work for them.

If that happens to you, I'd highly recommend reading "Work the System" and "Emyth Revisted." Yes, it's self-help porn but it works.
Not that big of a deal, but it means when you right-click to open the image in a new tab or save, it gives you the lo-res image (the src of the opacity 0 img tag since background images don't have this browser ability). Not sure it matters too much.
This isn't related to a hybrid language per se. IPython runs a language core and then provides a notebook frontend atop it.

You could perhaps have multiple language cores each communicating problems to one another via the common language of the notebook... but that's nothing more than any other text serialization route with all of the challenges therein.
Not really. Remember that Intel makes money from motherboard chipsets too. Recently, they've even been releasing microcode updates that retroactively disable CPU features that users have paid for unless they're using a more expensive chipset that officially supports them. There's no technical reason for it (and the chipsets are basically identical but with different features fused off for market segmentation reasons anyway).
Did you file a bug for it?
Thanks for the link. Interesting read, especially the line: "The only employee of Goldman Sachs to go to jail in the aftermath of the financial crisis was the employee Goldman Sachs wanted sent to jail."
PrivateCore has some very cool stuff, I think they're one of the only solutions available right now.
Ask HN: How to find a cofounder while in grad school?
I'm a masters student in CS. Bored of what I'm doing academically. I want to build something with someone . I don't know what, but part of my thinking is that I'd probably be happier working with someone I like than on something I like alone. Any advice? I happen to be in Cambridge, MA.
Google Should Buy the Entire Publishing Industry
Applies only to software programming?
Maybe its the same for any life task?
Not sure about the browser, but the app is decent, while limited (no charts in spreadsheets comes to mind).
According to it, everything he copied was non-proprietary. Almost all of it was open source stuff.

That doesn't make any sense. If the code truly were FOSS, why on earth would he copy it from his employer when he could eliminate legal risk by downloading it off the open internet? We know he's not stupid.
Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers
+1 for scratch. It's a great way for kids to learn programming without getting bored. Show them how to make an account and share their games with the community and they'll be hooked. The same skills learned from scratch transfer over to more advanced languages.
You're conflating the ideas of right and wrong, of law, and of company policy. If something is against policy, that doesn't make it illegal. If something is illegal, that doesn't make it wrong.
Thin isn't what matters there though - it could be an inch thick and would fit just as well. Weight and overall size (i.e. the diagonal) matter.
> I am amazed at how amazon remains doing business with so low margins or no profits.

The sweatshop labor probably helps them a lot. They're worse than WalMart.
He’s not joking. Later in the first page, Siracusa says

‘Mavericks is the first California-themed release of OS X, named after "places that inspire us here in California," according to Craig Federighi, who says this naming scheme is intended to last for at least the next 10 years.’

And the words “California surfing spot” in your quote link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location), so that is the name of the place. I guess it’s just coincidence that “maverick” is also a word.
I love it too! I think you hit on a really important point. Working from home drastically improves quality of life since you're able to interact more with people you care about. It also helps you develop more of a passion for your work when you're not being micromanaged. Helps you to feel more free and in control.

Great that you're trying out Sqwiggle. I'm actually one of the co-founders so please let me know if there's anything we can do to improve your experience. Also any feedback you have is super helpful!
NZ's Xero ($NZ3.6b) closing in on UK's Sage ($NZ6.6b) and US's Intuit (NZ$23.17)
The point of Quick Sync is to offload video encoding to specialized hardware, which reduces CPU usage. A quick Google search confirms that AirParrot uses a lot of CPU, which hurts the user experience. I won't opine on whether this is worth dropping the feature (and of course an application could be designed to use Quick Sync if available and fall back to the CPU otherwise; would be nice if OS X exposed this as a public API, although I think it's not hard to get at anyway), but there certainly is an advantage.
This is distressing.
I like this. I like the idea of planning for success - it is almost a mental model for seeing whether the action you are doing is "right" or not. The fact that it is yc is almost irrelevant. This idea could almost be extended to other elements so that it is not reliant on yc - eg. when you get 100 customers, what should they experience/see?
> Tablets were never intended to be the next generation of word processing devices.

sigh If only that we're true. iWork for iPad was announced at the first iPad announcement.
Shhh don't remind us.
I set those flags in group policy but the watermark doesn't go away. The only way to get rid of it is to re-enable SecureBoot in the BIOS.

This is really frustrating.
I don't use iTunes or iBooks or any other Apple media apps. I've only had my Air for a few months, and I do love it so, but....

If Mavericks is free, why does the App Store need a credit card in order for me to download it?

I do not plan on purchasing anything through iTunes. Never say never, sure, but I don't. Ever.

Guess I can't have Mavericks.

Even though it's free.

Kudos, Apple, you've given me my first reason to feel less than happy about a hardware purchase I reveled in.
> Honestly I'm not sure what a good solution would look like, but I don't think it's as simple as "trust us."

I agree -- this is not a simple challenge. But I don't think stultifying bureaucracy is the answer, either. There must be some government out there, somewhere in the world, that has sorted out an efficient, effective procurement process.
I agree with the overall premise of the blog.

But for many, I believe "being your own boss" is just another way to say you want more control of your destiny and want to capture more up side of your hard work.
> Broadcast.com sold to Yahoo for $5.7b

Smells like success, not failure.
Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
When new the Nokia tablet was announced yesterday, submissions made it to the front page but were promptly flagged off by many saying "this wasn't relevant to HN;" regardless of all the excitement over the new iPad.

So is HN basically becoming Slashdot where Microsoft hate occurs by default? Is it ethical to flag something because the article is related to a company you don't like, even if the source is generally reputable (theverge, engadget, ars)?

Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft (research) and my wife works for Nokia; so ya, ouch.
From section 0 of the GPL v3

> “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License. Each licensee is addressed as “you”. “Licensees” and “recipients” may be individuals or organizations.

And

> To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Low fat is not skim.

Was that a controlled study, or was "nonfat" high carb snacking a confounding factor?
> There isn't any conclusive proof that the #1 address (111,111 BTC) belongs to DPR, but it is clearly linked to SR in one way or another.

It's been linked to Ross/altoid's Bitcointalk posts, and has a sum consistent with the first year of SR commissions. That's all as conclusive evidence as anyone needs for it.
> Your argument seems to be that people shouldn't state their opinions, but should instead do silent research until they come to what you think is the obvious conclusion.

StavrosK wanted "valid criticism" and not "kneejerk reactions"; I don't think that's a fair interpretation of what he meant.

Perhaps it is a fact in our social environment that one cannot expect people to read more than the link title before making claims in comments, much less reading the FAQ (at https://uproxy.org/), but I wish it were not so.
Here is a page that was set up for him last year. Looks as though it hasn't been updated in a while. http://www.aleynikov.org/
Computer Rental Company Aaron’s Agrees to Stop ‘Monitoring’ its Customers
Why don't you just get a preloaded visa with $5 on it?
Long-sought pattern of ancient light detected
This is, of course, fake. Real page is:

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#china
1 week until social content startup, TinyTorch, launches!
Way way off topic, but: Can we cut the IMHO shit? Why do we have to qualify every opinionated statement as opinionated? If some mouth breather doesn't understand that what you wrote is your own opinion that's on them not you.
It's possible to make an iTunes store account without a credit card:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...
Love the racial inclusion for no reason.
I was thinking, the new iPad Air are so expensive, I won't have money left to buy and try a Nokia tablet...
Not just EU, many countries.

In Australia, it's two years from last service. Potentially, you could have a never-ending warranty if it's replaced every 2 years.

http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/statutoryrights.html
Well, federal government worker here too, but not on the US government.

Those rules are there because a malicious worker can cause a huge amount of damage. They are a pain (one entity I worked once spent about $15k (in people time) contracting $100 worth of ssl certificates, in a process that took more than a year (so, no certificates for the site during a period), we were forbiden from contracting the service for more than a year... and the contractor was another governmental entity. The rules are maddening, but they are necessary for a democracy.

The problem is that governmental IT is out of place. The government will never be competent in contracting software development - the only known tool that works in keeping government contracts honest is auctioning, and agile is simply not compatible with auctioning. The only possible way out is by doing IT in-house.
Lower your standards -- I've been using that for years. ;-)

When SSDs big enough for amateur photographers are affordable, I'll consider the switch.
>No, it's very clear what he did was wrong.

That might be clear to rubes who believe everything that they see on television.

What's clear to me is that Goldman Sachs wants to ruin this guy's life. Which, to some people, makes him a stand-up guy.
Un lugar peligroso para vivir.
Those people wearing the tinfoil hats were right.
Start a strtup in case you want to make business, to have fun.
Investors are not your bosses. Their goal is the same: make your company perform better.
Don't be afraid of them :)
:) they haven't announced pricing for the Nokia tablet yet, and the air definitely looks nice. I mean, they are both interesting stories, and there is no reason to flag one of them to bury it just because it is Microsoft/Nokia/whatever.
>>still hoping for an 11"-12" 16:9 iPad Pro

Personally I was hoping for two products; a retina iPad with 11"-13" screen -- and a Macbook Air with the same screen!

(If they could reuse the screen and electronics it wouldn't be expensive, but drivers etc would hardly be easy to move over processor architecture?)
Is there any bound to the number of cases that might be generated in that switch?
Have you heard of BitTorrent?
Of course. At an investment bank such as GS, no code or algorithm is written that isn't checked by traders and managers...
Yep. This is the same question as people who always believe there is a bubble. Really great comment.
My parents owned a home and lived in USA for over 30 years... but they are, and will always be, Nigerian. Home is where the heart is. I wonder what Aleynikov would say if we asked him "Are you American or Russian? Or both?"
RFC: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
Phil from Evernote and his classification for example was interesting and usefull.
"willing to tl;dr this for non-fanboys"

Herp, derp. Siracusa has been somewhere between critical and brutal toward the Finder (desktop slash file browser) since Mac OS X was born. He is also very well-known for being meticulous. Your comment reflects poorly on you.
If we are looking at the universe of Rails and Python programmers coming to C, then yeah, I think we can assume they aren't doing it for the exotic address manipulation operations and their colleague's prestige ;)

It's speed.

It is also almost always interesting. It reveals a boundary that has been crossed, a bottleneck plugged. I think that us HLL devs always like to think we have C in our back pockets. We say, "well if performance is bad we will profile then rewrite that bit in C". Then, when faced with the reality of actually having to write something in C, well it's a different story. We think the performance increase will be dramatic, but often we are left with something that performs worse than the original HLL equivalent, and that leaks memory and frequently crashes to add insult to injury!
Whatever. Is that why I've used my desktop Macs for an average of about 8 years before replacing them, and same with the laptops, at which time, I sold them, still working, to others?
One exception who invited legal trouble for the organization as a matter of some kind of principle would likely find himself no longer a member of the organization. In the best-case scenario, this person gets to see the source code for an internal tool. Who exactly is going to fund this legal battle?
You should read The Emyth, he talks about this very issue, and how you can still pull it off.
I use this logitech keyboard every day and absolutely love it. The overall package is thinner than the Clamcase Pro, too. I basically use this iPad everywhere not my desk, and can't go back to lugging my laptop around.
The craft of screen graphics and movie user interfaces
There is nothing particularly brave about cannibalizing a rather cheap product (iPod) with an insanely more expensive one (iPhone), that also turns out to become obsolete much more quickly. I should know: I bought one iPod Nano and my sister-in-law is still using it today, however I'm on my third iPhone already.

The iPad Mini cannibalizing the iPad, or the iPad cannibalizing the MacBook are much bolder moves. That iPad Mini Retina does look good...
I've evaluated them and for what they do they are pretty expensive.
Didn't think that there was much of the 4th Amendment left to lose.
Apple Just Ended the Era of Paid Operating Systems
I agree, it's just pack behavior. And no, I don't work for MS, nor have I ever.

Having said that, launching the day before the iPad was bound to invite negative comparison without something really special, notwithstanding the good value proposition of this tablet. What has personally held me back is that Windows RT has nothing in particular for me because it can't run any x86 legacy apps, while surface Pro seems rather expensive.

As with Google & Android, and MS with many previous versions of Windows, this platform is poor for musicians and not great for visual artists. I know creatives are a small market, but they're a very influential one. I don't like Apple or iOS much, but next time I buy a tablet with a view to making music, what other choice do I have?
> Question is though, what about support.

They sell you that too.
Isn't the point of the FirePro line that they come with ECC? I can sorta understand higher prices and lower performance from such things.
This is true, but not intuitive or readily explainable to "people" (usually senior management, hence the quotes :).

A great read on the subject of batch sizes and limiting WIP: http://www.amazon.com/The-Principles-Product-Development-Flo...
The Coinbase iOS app has launched
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
A Start-Up’s Documentary Series Tells Stories of Start-Ups
[video] The Big Blue - A crazy adventure
> Further, while you and I may have our opinions, a judge found Goldman's actions to be so egregious that he ordered them to pay the defense costs for someone accused of stealing from them. That is exceedingly rare, and wouldn't have happened if there were any doubts about either Goldman's conduct or the intentions of the programmer.

I don't think this is at all what happened. I think a judge ruled that he was a director at the company and therefor the company had to cover any legal costs he incured due to being a director of the company.

As far as I can tell, Goldman's actions had nothing to do with them paying his legal bills.
I found the order of the bosses in the post to be interesting: Investors -> Employees -> Customers.

Not sure if that was on purpose, but I would have put it in the opposite order if the subtext of the article was how to successfully be your own boss...
Ask HN: What, if anything, does Mavericks take away?
Has anyone run across any features that OS X Mavericks removes or disables?
From the Vanity Fair article, it sounds like Goldman is in fact violating the terms of the license, but not in the way you're describing. (I.e., not by refusing to release changes.)

According to the article Goldman would routinely strip off the license/copyright from off of the open source code file and replace it with their own copyright. And that is a violation of many open source licenses.
I always thought it was because the last 20% is also 80% of the project because everyone underestimates the task by roughly 60%.
I look forward to get feedback to improve this tool even better. It tracks likes, tweets, page scrolls, linkedin shares, youtube video watches with percentage and more. Free and open source.
Yes, I believe that the license is for the corporation as a whole, so it using it internally does not count as distribution.
> Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.

I bet it will still beach ball...
Fire Control Analog Computers
NOAA Nautical Charts available as PDF until 22 Jan
> folks like RedHat combined the GNU userspace with the Linux kernel

Once Linux was good enough, RMS himself set Hurd aside, put the Linux kernel into the GNU project that he started, and (almost literally) declared mission accomplished. It wasn't folks like RedHat (that only came years later), the developers of Hurd were the first to kill it.

But then, since Hurd has quite an interesting architecture, people keep developing it, like dozens of OSs out there that'll never get anywhere, but are fine with that.
Sergey is a good Erlang programmer.

He is active in on the Erlang mailing list. He wrote a cool C++ to Erlang interface. Here is his Github account:

https://github.com/saleyn

I am happy for him. He is a great asset to the open source community.
I'm relatively new to HN. It's disappointing but I kind of just accepted the Microsoft hate, as a given(like nick cage on reddit).

Also recently I started to see posts from older HN members who don't like what the community is turning into.
Weaving Tutorials into Mozilla Thimble
If you see a comment you think is ridiculous click "link" and you should be able to flag them. I don't think HNers in general hate MS but this community is pretty biased towards OS X and Linux, it's hard to feign interest in stuff you don't use.

Engadget and The Verge are professional plagiarists, it would be bad for this community to adopt those sites as some kind of standard for tech news, and it's awesome seeing them fail over and over again to get a foothold here.