skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What can you do on a PC that you cannot do on a tablet?

Easy copy pasting, selecting specific parts of a document... basically anything requiring precision and speed. You can add a keyboard and a mouse to it I suppose, but at that point you may as well have got a laptop.
Things that I'm currently looking for (from more important to less important):

* 8 hours battery life (while coding)
* Not scorching hot (the Powerbooks and Macbooks circa 2007 or so were infamous for this)
* Haswell / 4th gen Intel processor
* 8GB+ RAM
* 128GB+ SSD
* Warranty covers spill damage (this happens to me quite a bit)
* Trackpoint / nub (I got acquainted with the nub afer spilling coffee on my trackpad)
* Convertible to tablet with pen (I do a fair amount of illustration)
* Discreet graphics card
* Backlit keyboard

I think my love of the trackpoint limits me to Thinkpads, but I'm always on the lookout.
Key value stores are useful, and they are especially useful in this form factor. On the other hand, you now have a very large black box that you have to somehow navigate in order to create a workable system. Given that this is likely an arm core running linux on the inside, I would have considered a slightly more open approach to be 'Here's a working KV store using backing db X and here's how to reflash it if it doesn't quite work for you'.
This is a strange article; it's not like any version of TextMate was ever distributed through the app store, so I'm not sure the relevance of app store restrictions.
Also look at https://github.com/Seagate/Kinetic-Preview
Startups and Mountaineering
Thanks, I find the points above helpful. I have taken days off and already working on this. Hopefully, things should get better.
You silly, organized crime have guns, they are not playing with 3D printers...
You didn't even read the summary:

> Rather than indicating a sharp rise in actual violence, however, this increase is largely the direct result of major changes to the way crime data are recorded in the England and Wales. First in 1998 and then again in 2002, amendments were introduced to include a broader range of offences, to promote greater consistency, and to take a more victim-led approach where alleged offences were recorded as well as evidence-based ones

Stop pushing an agenda.
Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles
Maybe they could release Pages Pro for the folks that actually care about scripting the hell out of things. The average user doesn't just like the average home movie editor does't care about multicamera support or SMTE time codes.
PrivateCore demonstrates industry's first PRISM-proof Tor server in public cloud
Peter Thiel -- Back to the Future (Singularity Summit 2012)
Big Pharma Collaborating On Big Data To Save The World
Don't found a company unless you love Excel
When they have a warrant? Absolutely they do. They've always had that power, and every country I know of has warrants of similar power.

If you're hosting encrypted data that focuses on privacy while remaining law abiding, it's just sensible to maintain separate SSL keys so you avoid this very scenario. It's not as if it wasn't foreseeable.
If this means 10gbps ethernet switches finally comes down in price, awesome...

Otherwise this will be hampered by the fact that the 6Gbps of SATA III is already too slow to take maximum advantage of many SSD devices (hence OCZ experiments with effectively extending PCIe over cables to the devices.
A children’s guide to the NSA (and a fairy tale for the rest of us)
This is an old article, and it's rubbish anyway. The sandboxing restrictions on App Store downloads are obviously not about "restriction of freedoms" so much as security.
Please add (2012) to the link.
Some of those look like things that might have been cut because of time. While most of them are nice, they're all things which are edge cases for most users or potential users.

Outline view for example - yes it's a desirable feature but most people just open a document and start typing.

Customizing the toolbar is potentially slightly different - that might just be part of Apple's "no need to customize, we've worked out the best way" approach...
On side projects, the problem is, I have always been passionate about whatever I am work on and have no energy left for side projects. I guess I should just 'grind things out' as you mentioned, and perhaps focus energy on things I care most about, but won't this hamper on productivity?

I am based in London.
This is why the interchange is not going away from the marketplace - any new CC-like product w/o interchange will be more expensive for 'cardholders' than the current creditcards, simply because credit card issuers can earn their money from the interchange fees that only the merchants care about.
Yeah, Pages 5 just replaced ByWord as my writing app. It's really simple/minimalistic - in a good way for me at least. Both Pages 4 and Word are way too cluttered for my taste. This is the perfect combination for me at least, not too simplistic (like the markdown apps) and not too cluttered (like Word).

http://i.imgur.com/2rT4tP9.png
thingamy.com have been building and offering a web-based system for supporting what they chose to call "Barely Repeatable (business) Processes" for years, and put a lot of tought into it. Written in Lisp btw.

See http://www.thingamy.com -> "process engine"

(not associated in any way, just used to read and like their blog for some time)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-...

search "pepper spray self defense":

amazon.co.uk: 151 results, mostly books, none of them actually usefull

amazon.com: 1,812 results
The article is over a year old.

OS X sandboxing has exactly nothing to with the open vs. closed debate. Sounded more like an attempt to shift attention away from the fact that TextMate 2.0 was at least 3+ years late at the time it was abando..i mean open sourced.
For web development a MacBook Air will do just fine, even with 4 GB RAM. Screen size shouldn't matter, you're probably going to hook the laptop up to an external monitor anyway.
Full title is "A Super Ball Bot for Titan: A Baby Step To Learning About Saturn’s Unique Moon" which makes a lot more sense.
Sorry, you are right, thought that study took into account the difference in crime reporting. I'm busy deploying to a server and didn't bother to read the summary.

>Stop pushing an agenda

Your assumption that I have an agenda is also laughable. I do not own a firearm.
The Chinese struggled for years until they liquored Richard Feynman up and he accidentally let an idea slip that led to them getting the bomb.

I'm sorry, but teasing us like this is just unacceptable. Dirt, please, or at least a reference for where we can find it.
You are only able to make a conscious choice about things in your control. There are also a lot of things outside of your control.

Blaming the victims of poverty and disease for their lack of success and positive thinking is a real downside of this empowerment movement. It's also used to exploit people and make them act against their own interests. All this american dream stuff and poor people protesting against public healthcare.

It's the perfect excuse to individualize all kind of problems. You just did not work enough and put not effort into it. It just does not help to actually solve these problems.

Empowerment is great and courage and confidence are great to have. But there _is_ a lot of bullshit in this space.
This is very bad.
I write programs that use the scriptability of Pages to assist people in writing. The users often have writing and reading problems and our programs aid the user in the writing process.
The fact the your program can not touch any text in the document (Paragraphs, words, characters) is a real showstopper for us.
It is hard to recommend Pages for those users (And yes, we have a system wide spelling checker available trough the usual means).

Here is hoping that Apple will fix this. That is bring back the functionality in the scriptable API.
Surely if you're that deep into the styling of your documents, up to a point where various AppleScripts are being called to help you be productive; you might be better off using Latex?
The difference with me is that my client has a rough knowledge of the tools I use, and even make false assumptions about implementation detail.

Sometimes I get pseudo-code as spec requirements, or get told 'solutions' instead of elaborating on the problems at hand. So, I don't get the chance to learn any new stuff besides what's in the pot.
It's the era of the deletionist, from wikipedia, via apple to gnome.
C-s moves forward in history, but you have to type it twice to begin with, once to toggle the mode, and once to actually move forward.

Backspace normally just deletes the last character in your incremental search string.

And be sure that C-s / C-q aren't set up for terminal flow control with something like:

stty start undef stop undef
If you could do a multiply in a nano-second, you could do about 3 x 10^16 multiplies in a year. Keys are about 10^300, so it would take 10^84 years.

Sort of.

In practice it's more complicated than that, but the numbers involved are HUGE. Doing the math with small examples always gives completely the wrong impression, like doing hill-climbing in 3D.
I dont understand why you would WANT linux to dominate desktop market :/ I thought the whole point of linux is that its a playground for advanced users. Windows on the other hand, was designed for normal users, who would never even think of scripting of piping etc. So considering the general public aren't hackers, why would they come over to the linux side?
Again, your response shows you missed the message.

The lesson wasn't about this particular set of circumstances. Of course it would be trivial to automate this specific use case. The point is that as a business owner, as the person onto who everything comes down in the end, you sometimes just have to suck it up and do what no salaried person would do. The lesson was: as an employee you can just call somebody and make your sickness their problem (I'm not suggesting that people with cancer can make that somebody else's problem, please no autistic readings of an abstract point). As the boss, the final person responsible, you have nobody to offload things like this to. You just have to find a solution and often that solution is in muscling through the obstacle.
The battle of the editors! Which one should I choose now that Lime ( https://github.com/quarnster/lime ) is out there too? :).
Did you know you can make your own git commands, and I don't mean just aliases?

Write a script called git-mycommand, and you can invoke it with 'git mycommand'. Tab completion works too, at least for bash + bash_completion.
This helps me to unwind, I actually cycle to work and swim once a week, so far I am in good mental shape, but lack any motivation to work on the project and in that environment.
Also if you're lucky enough to be able to carry off C, you're more likely to have options A and B at your disposal.
You could keep multiplying m by itself, sure, but in practice you're dealing with numbers so huge that it rapidly becomes impractical to test all values in the range m^2 to whatever (e.g. m^49863657239487123495780934672309687239458732946585601239587146245192587126978563425981758234729374837833000023013834769482349111943853593463798) before you finally stumble on the correct one.

Effort is better spent trying to factor the public modulus n which you already have. Because the private exponent(m^498636... above) can be derived from it.
The issuing bank gets ~2%, which it can take in profit (if there's little competition) or spend it to make sure that the customers use the branded creditcards instead of, say, Dwolla - cashbacks, marketing, lower APR's, airmiles, or whatever else. It's quite a large budget - and if you charge 25 cents from the merchant, then it's hard to compete with a creditcard that could give the customer a dollar cashback for the same purchase.
If world-war-2 steel still emits too much radiation for your application, maybe you'll want to shield your experiment with 2000 year old lead bricks from a sunken roman vessel?

http://www.aspera-eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798512 for previous discussion on a related article.
>> Most importantly, change something. If you always do what you've always done...

I have a feeling this should reset a button somewhere :) Thanks.
Generating haikus from WWDC transcripts
I don't like rebinding C-g, as that's the 'cancel' key for things like incremental search (in emacs bindings).
Each U.S. Troop In Afghanistan Now Costs $2.1 Million
But IP runs over more than just ethernet or is it limited only run on ethernet?
Since the article was written in English, for an English speaking audience, who consider generally "über alles" to not be particularly offensive anymore (it has come to mean something like "all conquering"). I don't think it was a poor choice of title at all, especially since it sums up the tone of his article.

It's quite unfortunate that the far-right in Germany has since appropriated the phrase, but it's been appropriated differently by English-speakers. Censoring people based on a usage that is foreign to them is a little harsh.
It's incredible to me that the country that made the Internet possible, has changed so much in four or five decades that it is now in the process of destroying the Internet.
"We Mac power users have been complaining about the “dumbing down” trend in computing that the mobile era has ushered in. Now it’s definitely come to hurt us in a big way. It’s as if the entire iWork team of engineers has been replaced by iOS specialists with little or no interest in the needs of “prosumers” and the like."

- It just Works™
How are the handling this today? You can treat an existing HD as a key-value store where the keys is the location on disk and the value is a sector of binary data. Conceptually there's no difference.

The answer is: If you need those capabilities to offer up a traditional file system, you do as you do today: you layer it on top.

But many systems don't, because they already re-implement reliability measures on top of hard drives, as we want systems that are reliably available in the case of server failure too.

E.g. consider something like Sheepdog: https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog
Sheepdog is a cluster block device solution with automatic rebalancing and snapshots. It implements this on top of normal filesystems by storing "objects" on any of a number of servers, and uses that abstraction to provide all the services. Currently sheepdog requires the sheep daemon to run on a set of servers that can mount a file system on the disks each server is meant to use. With this system, you could possibly dispense with the filesystem, and have the sheep daemons talk directly to a number of disks that are not directly attached.

For sheepdog RAID is not really recommended, as sheepdog implements redundancy itself (and you can specify the desired number of copies of each "block device" ), and it also provides snapshots, copy on write, extensive caching and support incremental snapshot based backups of the entire cluster in one go.

So in other words, there are applications that can make very good use of this type of arrangement without any support for raid etc. at the disk level. And for applications that can't, a key value store can trivially emulate a block device - after all sheepdog emulates a block device on top of object storage on top of block devices...

You could also potentially reduce the amount of rebalancing needed in the case of failures, by having sheep daemons take over the disks of servers that die if the disks are still online and reachable.

The biggest challenge is going to be networking costs - as I mentioned elsewhere, SSDs are already hampered by 6Gbps in SATA III, and 10GE switches are ludicrously expensive still.
The PC Revolution is Dead
Just to be clear, I'm not saying this is the case here, but it's definitely a common scenario.

Either way it's a very strong vote of no confidence in the existing staff by the CEO.

Unless there is a long story of trying to improve the app internally, it appears this CEO decided at the bar that his own staff wasn't good enough and needed to be replaced with external consultants without considering other root causes (including himself).

Executives that are easily persuaded by the sales pitches of external consultants and don't listen to their own people are a dime a dozen.
There is probably useful analysis that they can perform in aggregate across all of their users. Perhaps people who read email are more likely to do <x> at a certain time and that signal is only noticeable with more data than you as an individual generate.
N.B. If you don't want to upgrade and are afraid one errant "update all" click will remove your installed copies of iWork '09, you're safe: like the iMovie '08 upgrade, the new iWork apps are installed side-by-side with the old versions. If you update, you can find the old versions in /Applications/iWork '09.

If the iMovie '08-like SxS install is to be the judge of how Apple views the suite, iWork '13 is definitely meant to be an incomplete "reboot" that will mature and gain features back with time. Until then, if you need those features, iWork '09 is still there.

Interestingly, on the iLife side, iMovie '13 is installed side-by-side with iMovie 9, but not iPhoto.
Well - I guess we're going to have to licence use of 3D printers and make sure that DRM is used to restrict what can be printed.

I suppose we'll also have to ensure that corporations have control, so they can liaise with law enforcement agencies - after all, our safety will be at stake without affirmative action.

Of course, there'll also be tangential effects: e.g. the technologies for restriction will be able to be used to ensure that 3D printing IP can be monitised ..

.. but of course there's absolutely no way in the world that could be anyone's primary concern. The powers that be are simply worried about our safety.
Phonebloks: The phone you can build like Lego
> I think it is extremely doubtful that they just happened to buy plastic components that could be used as a trigger and magazine

Agreed. However, those parts aren't able to be used as a trigger or magazine. One of them hooks onto the back of a 3d printer, holding the spool of plastic. The other one can be attached to the print head to help feed the plastic into the nozzle.

In no way can they be used as a trigger or magazine. Coincidentally, I have a similar spool holder on my desk right now.
Mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131025035238/http://jvns.ca/bl...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D2JWS...
I don't control it. I pay to use it.
"However, my iPad or iPhone will call for my attention every few minutes, which is not liberating at all."

This feeling has been creeping on me ever since I succumbed to a smartphone for work a few years ago.

Instead of releasing me from some of the lower-level tasks I deal with day to day, this phone, these devices, nag me to pay attention to all of my friends back home, all of my old classmates, former colleagues, and all of the things they're producing / forwarding / commenting on.

I moved out of the US this summer and it took me a while to get a SIM here. I had roaming data on my work phone but couldn't use it much for the obvious cost.

It's been liberating to just live inside my head and in my immediate environment these past months. When I finally got a local number, I put the SIM in a 20EUR Samsung flip phone. I find few issues with eventually just living with that phone.
Totally agreed with T430s, I have one at work with a SSD. It is the most responsive machine that I have ever used.
"but aren't the parts of a gun which can be machine printed, also fairly easily manufactured using widely available metal working tools?"

No, it's quite different. A metal work workshop is not something the typical urban criminal has access to. Yes, I realize there are many people in rural areas who have such workshops, and shared workshops in urban settings, so theoretically yadda yadda yadda, but the practical (socio-economic) reality is that those who want firearms for criminal purposes in the vast majority of cases do not have access to these tools, and/or lack the knowledge to reverse engineer and adapt available plans for metal weapons, and manufacture them. It's quite hard to make a metal gun using a traditional lathe and milling machine, and even when using a high-end CNC.

3d printing on the other hand requires no more than the average high school kid's computer knowledge, plus a few files downloaded from the internet. The barrier to entry is orders of magnitude lower.

The costs are vastly lower, too - you can get started printing a gun (although I don't think guns made on MakerBots today will actually work) for ~ 1000$. That is not much more expensive than a weapon on the black markets costs (to those who have access to such a market). You'd spend an order of magnitude more on a metal workshop, and that's not even counting the materials and auxiliary tools.
marketo for example.
Wordpress and jekyll.
It reminds me of an old joke I heard shortly after 9/11.

Did you hear that they confiscated knitting needles from an old lady before she was allowed to board her flight? They were afraid she was going to make an afghan.
He seems grumpy as usual. And not without point, Apple is well known for their flatland aesthetics.
With Windows 8, and has been part of the windows phone ecosystem for ages.

But it's more than that, SkyDrive was launched in 2007, DropBox 2008. In classic Microsoft style, they didn't really tell anyone it existed for a few years.

I'll be honest, I don't 'get' dropbox. Their security record means I'll never, ever trust them with anything beyond a lolcat, they don't really have any killer features.

The fact that on Windows SkyDrive offers much better user experience than DropBox, the implementation of JIT-downloading files, the fact it hasn't messed around with ASLR in my web browser.

I gather dropbox is better if you run OSX, but at the end of the day having 1% of windows market is better than 10% of OSX market.
Automatic SIMD Vectorization for Haskell (Intel Haskell Research Compiler)
And Sequoia backed startups now have a combined valuation of almost a trillion. These statistics are a bit meaningless. I'll wager that the median YC company has a negative opportunity cost for the founders.
Also note: Pages 5 has a File->Export ... option to export a Pages '09 version of the current file.

So it's possible to get documents out of Pages 5 if you updated inadvertently and converted all your iCloud files, and go back to Pages '09.
Twisted is 99% ported and already packaged in Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/python3-twisted-experiment...
Just like AV programs for windows! I'm at the point where I would pay software developers to just stop touching things (cept for bugs)
All we know is that he's been arrested "on suspicion of making gunpowder" and that they found 3D printed plastic parts that could make a (1 shot) gun.

To be useful the article would have to expand on the person and it's ties to the aweful criminal organization who owns "air rifles" and "BB guns".

I think the message is pretty clear:
> GMP said through Challenger it was "declaring war" on criminal networks.
And the BBC is just playing along.
If you know someone that is going to sign up for the military, point out the worst that can happen to them is not that they are going to die, but they might live and need continuous medical assistance for the rest of their lives when they get back home.

Then show them the floor in the VA building that is collapsing from all the claims that have yet to be processed with some people waiting nearly a year to get help.

Congress should be forced to put aside $2 million for every recruit just like they force the post office to put money in a retirement fund for every employee, decades ahead before it is needed.

Then we'd see the true price of war. Of course this doesn't include the thousands of innocents killed in each native country.