skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI if you're unfamiliar with the previous specs, a writeup from MacRumors:

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/29/updated-macbook-airs-fas...

> All standard models of the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air now come with a faster 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor along with the same 4GB of RAM. Both entry-level configurations of the 11-inch and 13-inch models now sell for $899 and $999 with 128GB of flash storage, while the higher-end 11-inch and 13-inch models now come in at $1099 and $1199 with 256GB of flash storage, respectively.
Founder here, thanks & yes you are right, we will update it shortly
> no different from someone submitting a printing job to Kinkos or some other fast-print service and having the results delivered

Interesting comparison, because Kinkos will not just let you pay them to reproduce copyrighted content. FedexKinkos' copyright policy requires written permission from the copyright holder:

“The FedEx Kinko's policy requires written permission from the copyright holder in order to reproduce any copyrighted works.

Our primary objective is to take care of your needs. We sincerely appreciate your understanding and cooperation in complying with the FedEx Kinko's copying policy. Thank you for your business.

Please see a FedEx Kinko's team member to obtain a Copyright Permission Request form.”

I was wondering more about the library letting you pay them 10 cents a page.
Makes sense! Keep up the good work.
No, i misunderstood OP, thought he meant HN, due to his wording.
Could be. But Digital Ocean does not provide you with a movable IP that you could point at a different load balancer when the old one becomes faulty. With a movable IP or a cloud based load balancer a single point of failure could be prevented. DO does not offer any of them.
Signed integer overflow is undefined in C, so optimizers can do really weird things to code that has overflows.
Good timing microsoft, specially now that we have this for free for an year already using google hangouts
I think that rumor also stated something about ARM, so Google may not be done designing its chips yet.

I'm glad they are finally doing this, not so much because I care about what happens in the server world, but because so many product chip decisions at Google have been political (by choosing Intel chips) simply because Otellini was on their board. Hopefully this will signal a change from that.
DIY Google Street View
Hardware And Software: The Love Affair
Yep, they'll upgrade you. It's the same as returning the product and buying a new one. I think the return policy is 14 days though.
swap BTC for LTC. swap LTC for other BTC's, win.
Because this way they can trade each other bitcoins for goods. If they just gave everyone mitcoins, they would be worthless for a while, and most of the students wouldn't care to even use them.
haha it's Din Pro!
Can't believe they didn't call this "MITcoin".
If it is seen as a credible threat, there is no need to walk the whole way. It is enough already if Intel gets the message.
>Please stop hijacking the native browser scrolling. I don't know if it's because I ate guláš for lunch, but the custom scroll effect on this site makes me feel nauseous. Additionally, the site doesn't work at all without JavaScript.

Agreed. The custom scrollbars are awful too. I wish browsers had a way to prevent certain things from being overridden (scrolling, right click, scrollbars, keyboard shortcuts) on a user configurable basis.
Sadly we had to request access to your image files otherwise we wouldn't be able to allow you to use them in your prototype and keep them in sync.

It's a delicate subject I totally understand, thanks for the best wishes!
Would these be too pricey as hypervisors for cloud compute? It seems to me to be ideal for CPU thread intensive applications like databases, on-demand transcoding.

What are some use cases for a server like this for Google? I'd love to see these available in the IBM Cloud (SoftLayer) but I think they will be too pricey and reserved for enterprise.
"They also should have done this verification process before I began working on the project and before I waited for 2 weeks for the first wire."

While we can see from your case many problems of their waiting, I don't think it's economic for them to do a Know Your Customer (KYC) process until there's enough money on the table.

Surely many if not most if not the vast majority of freelancers signed up on the site will never receive enough money to require this. They'd have to not only get hired for a project, but also not get stiffed by the client.

The inexcusable thing is of course is that once they had thousands of dollars in their hands (albeit since it was from a credit card, subject to a charge back, which I'm sure is one of the reasons they resolved this in your and your client's favor), their KYC "process" (not sure their's deserves such a grand name) was so bogus, inconsistent and opaque.

There's a slight excuse for the opaqueness, implicitly telling you to Photoshop your "brown" photo section background into something more acceptable would negate that metric's usefulness, but ... well, they could have told you something that would have prompted you to go to the DMV and get a new license with a new photo (you could tell them you lost your old one).

E.g. "your photo on the license doesn't pass muster, why don't you get a replacement with a new photo" ... although that wouldn't necessarily work in my home state of Missouri, they have metrics for when they'll take a new photo and refused to the last time I renewed it (and for what it's worth, it has a deep blue background, one would hope that's OK by them...).

"They also never requested that I do a keycode verification where I hold a sign using the unique keycode they give me and holding up my ID."

There are two issues here: sending money to the right person, which I suspect was never in serious doubt, and sending money to a legit person, which is what the "Know Your Customer" words of art are all about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
That sounds like an awful idea WRT some bright spark will duct tape together a table covered in FPGA boards, take over 51% of the likely extremely small local altcoin network, then temporarily own every laser printer, soda machine, and cafeteria on the campus. Unless their altcoin gets into some weird whitelisting situation where some P2P hosts are more equal than other P2P hosts, which is screwed up.

On the other hand it sounds like a brilliant idea because there is some volatility in the BTC market, so you'll get some peculiar behaviors, where the infrastructure was originally implemented to get the lab monitors and food service workers out of the cash handling business, sometimes a laser printer page will cost five cents or ten cents under BTC or they'll be playing games with dynamic costs such that you may get considerably more paper or food at certain times of the semester than others if you provide a fixed qty of BTC.
It would be really interesting if the organizers recorded and tracked the Bitcoins that are distributed in this way using the block chain. It could be a financial parallel to the MIT Reality Mining dataset: http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/realitymining.html
Share of developers generating a viable income is higher on iOS than on Android
What about terrifying people with the thought they have schizophrenia but just haven't demonstrated visible symptoms yet? That concern comes up a lot with genetic testing because many things aren't certain but people panic and make significant life-altering decisions after a positive test result.

EDIT: … I should also have noted that humans are notoriously suggestible – with a mental illness it's really easy to imagine people both assuming every quirk is proof of a terrible disease or even starting to demonstrate symptoms psychosomatically after being told that this will happen eventually.
an extra hour battery life
Thanks for doing this. I have not used IBM's products, but I understand the motivation behind doing something like this.

It will be a wonderful exercise in digging up super expensive programs like this and creating open source versions of it. They will rescue some hapless programmer and/or provide consulting opportunities for another.

Do you have some programs that can benefit by having an open source version? It will be a neat exercise to learn new languages/platforms.
UVA is just one of many online judges. See http://qr.ae/r9bsW and https://github.com/andreis/interview
Everytime I see “No coding required.” I laugh hard and then proceed to prototype with code on a real device, using the native framework.
Easily detect and block malicious HTTP requests targeting IIS/ASP.NET
I think they could use this on edge servers, as well with those algorithms, that they couldn't distribute enough.
Totally agree. I didn't get the success I thought I wanted in my 20s (some sort of tech mogul). I did get a different kind of success (small business ownership, flexible with direct customer relationships). Now that I have a family, I love the success I ended up with, but I would have been disappointed with it in my 20s. It is very hard to anticipate what you are really going to want.
1366x768 in 2014?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the top line MacBook Air had 8 GB of RAM before, now it is 4.
Yeah, but if I randomly pick any 2 Windows apps, the probability that they will scroll the same is very low. Heck, even the bultin Windows Explorer I'm staring at on Windows 8 has nice smooth scroll on the main folder pane and "chunky" scrolling for the folder tree on the left, that's two scrolling behaviors in the same window, for a builtin Windows app (!!!).

Thing are more consistent on Mac OS, but on Windows and Linux these kinds of GUI functionality are still at the "wild west" level, so the only sensible choice is to implement what's "better looking for the user" in your application, which all browsers except Chrome seem to do, btw, and they've arrived at a convergent result while doing it...

And "designer dumbness" is real, but it's root cause is in the fact that lots of good graphic designers are "control freaks", and when they know that something is "technically possible", they don't care how much work it takes, and it takes them a lot to "grok" how detrimental the overall result is for UX.

I solved the problem for myself by staying as far away as possible from "design-driven development" or teams led by designers... but it is a fact that such teams exist at lots of small agencies and startups and that they do shape the field, unfortunately.
How well-educated is your home county?
Building NuGet 3.x
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23866614

Google handles more than 100 billion searches each month or more than three billion per day.
Google has to crawl more than 20 billion pages a day to keep up with the ever-changing web.
Google has found 60 trillion web addresses so far, up from one trillion in 2008.
Google has indexed pages from over 230 million domains.
A query on Google travels 750 miles each way, to and from the data centre.
When you select a model to order you can choose 8GB as a $100 upgrade.
Don't forget that the lunch break can have an impact on the outcome:

The [research] team found that, at the start of the day, the judges granted around two-thirds of the applications before them. As the hours passed, that number fell sharply (see chart), eventually reaching zero. But clemency returned after each of two daily breaks, during which the judges retired for food. The approval rate shot back up to near its original value, before falling again as the day wore on.

http://www.economist.com/node/18557594

If something as simple as a lunch break can have this type of impact on judges, then imagine how other circumstances of their personal life can impact longer trials.
Google's servers are not that light, and this is a dual socket one, so 20-32 cores or so, rather than a huge Power 16 socket board which are the real scale up ones, so it is not that much more scale up. You get more IO bandwidth out of Power than Intel.
Good point. I suppose it should be limited to people who are already showing other symptoms of schizophrenia...
Direct link: http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
If the supply of the currency were inflated to "print" money to give to MIT students, people would rightly protest. It would be a simple wealth transfer from the overall population of currency holders to a small group of students who are already some of the most highly advantaged people alive in the world today.

One purpose of this project is clear: to promote Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies generally). The value of Bitcoin is higher since this announcement was made, regardless of what the price is.
I imagine Apple are optimising for battery life and cost here, rather than for sheer resolution.

Edit: Also, that's the 11", I doubt they can squeeze many more pixels in there before it becomes unreadable. The 13" is 1440x900, which is more reasonable (I'm using it as we speak, actually!)
I'd rather have websites sell advertising space next to their content then gate their communities behind paywalls frankly.

Those are not the only two choices. Many of the sites I like are personal ones either hosted on the author's own server+connection, or ones hosted by large institutions that would likely be able to afford the hosting anyway.
I thought this one[0] was a little ironic - it's part of the codebase for a vulnerability management system.

[0] https://github.com/riflon/Timantti/blob/2459c44fde2b378f63ac...
12 hours of battery life in 2014? puff
Agreed, 3-4 day work weeks sounds better all around.

Less commute time, more time to pursue hobbies and take trips.

I bet 4 * 9 hours days would have a negligible impact on worker productivity and reduce costs like heating, cooling, lighting, since offices would be closed an extra day.
Why is this news? I am a proud Apple fan, but I don't think a slight bump in their cheapest laptop needs to make the front page of HN. I feel like I am missing something.
The entire history of 20th century should have deleted "the Left" forever, and yet, somehow, they are still around. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result, indeed.
This is for the 11" model. The 13" has a more appropriate 1440x900.

Retina would be nice though.
A Conversation about Craftsmanship – Botch jobs in web development
It's a beautiful site. Are you at all worried about the name Marvel? Especially now that Marvel Comics is trying to work with designers and developers too? [1]

[1]http://developer.marvel.com/
The non-retina 13" Macbook Pro seems less and less relevant.
Relevant to this discussion:

Utah ends 4-day workweek experiment

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/04/utah-ends-4-day-workweek-e...
If Apple made a retina Macbook Air then nobody would buy the Macbook Pro.
Plus it kills swipe-to-go-back in Safari.
How funding killed my startup
This argument won't stand. New phone displays have significantly lower battery consumption than the old ones and substantially higher resolutions. And you can always employ tricks like reducing refresh rate to lower the consumption even more.
Aaaah, a domain-knowledge expert, thaaaank god!

Actual information on this topic is sorely lacking....

....While we have you on the line, would you please contribute some more information on LIDAR w/r/t autonomous vehicles?

For example, how well does LIDAR work with rain? fog? How does LIDAR interact with other nearby LIDARs? How much power does a typical system emit? How sensitive is it to jamming? How many frames per second can be acquired? How much computing power is used to re-assemble a scene?
People might be waiting for a new one to come out, that makes it news.
ZRTP can be used for voice.. Zimmerman's new startup does exactly that
My 2012 is fine! I think the only upgrade that will make sense is to the Retina version.
Suddenly I don't regret buying a 13" Retina MBP at all.
What about the equiv. of code reviews? For surgeons, take videos of each surgery, and have them rated by an impartial review panel. I can't find the link now, but I recently saw a segment posted on Youtube that compared a surgeon with good technique, to one with poor technique, and it correlated with the overall outcome of the patients.
Putting dimensions in image names is fine, it's quite useful for asset management.

Describing the image is the alt tag's job. Otherwise, consider the nightmare...

Britney_Spears_Red_Carpet_MTV_Awards_2012_834pm_Headshot.jpg

Which isn't great file naming for the web. Or am I too oldschool and this is how all the kool kids do it now?

Do search engines expect meta data in image names? I don't think they're counting on it, even if they are picking it up.
> I see a clear decline of SOA and a push towards open source

everything old is new again.

http://wayfinder.co/pathways/53536427f7040a11002ae407/a-fiel...
> I can’t think of a single technology company in history that has made much of a lasting cultural contribution.

Uhm, Xerox? Apple? Commodore? Nintendo? Sony?
Could be. 13" rMBP won't be much different from a 13" rMBA then.
I think there is some deep rooted competitive drive in most folks. Most people are constantly comparing themselves to others as the article explains. It takes a fair amount of self awareness and restraint to stop doing this.. The benefit though is that you feel much more free to be happy with your life. Envy is a terrible disease
Money quote, applicable to hacking in general:

“We are used to thinking that a doctor’s ability depends mainly on science and skill. The lesson from Minneapolis is that these may be the easiest parts of care. Even doctors with great knowledge and technical skill can have mediocre results; more nebulous factors like aggressiveness and consistency and ingenuity can matter enormously... What the best may have, above all, is a capacity to learn and adapt—and to do so faster than everyone else.”
Google considers this a feature, not a bug, and that you are the product and the carrier is the customer: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38563#c105
How many other laptops of similar spec can beat it though?
Hosting content is not the be-all-end-all of costs - people need to eat too.
> Do you have some programs that can benefit by having an open source version?

It's always and ever beneficial to (have the ability) to look into the source code

And the price ;)

> It will be a wonderful exercise in digging up super expensive programs like this and creating open source versions of it.

> They will rescue some hapless programmer and/or provide consulting opportunities for another.

It's because SOA failed that this software isn't worth what it was (and still currently is) priced at.

It's been unclear, an endeavour, we are going along and we are finding things out.

It turned out to the misfortune of big companies, which develop software in the laboratory and to the favour of internet companies (so actual (customer) projects)

Things do not work out as people thought. Companies want to make (big) business and in the end there may be almost nothing left (over).

I guess it can happen to others, but e.g. open sourcing SAP might be much more of an efford (they have a lot of business know-how in their software)
I'm still quite happy with my late 2010 13' Air, as a second/travel/coffee shop laptop.

About your edit: remember that how Apple does it in the "Retina" models is increasing the definition, without affecting the actual size of the UI elements.

I would buy a "Retina Air" in an heartbeat.
I thought Apple was waiting for new chips from Intel before the laptops would be refreshed. I'm surprised.
I totally missed some events, or Apple just "dropped" those in the store without any writeup/presentation?

Even if this is a minor upgrade (price cut and slightly faster processors), it still feels very weird to me.
That's a misunderstanding. When a company spends money to buy back shares, it decreases its value by the amount of money it spends. Therefore even though the company is now owned by fewer people, the value of the company has shrunk sinilarly, and the share prices remain constant. That is if the shares were priced correctly to begin with.

That is why stock buy-backs only make sense if the shares are priced too low.
Addendum to sidenote: the site also overrides Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn, which is highly frustrating.
Why not? If they push the resolution of the 11" much more, it'll become harder to read the screen. If they double the resolution to make it "retina", the battery will take a hit, as will the cost.
I'm surprised they didn't get rid of it today.
Self-driving Teslas charged with nuclear-generated electricity seems very sustainable for me. Make them rented on-demand instead of owned and you have a PRT system, combining the convenience of a car with efficiency of public transport.
They're just minor bumps to specs and a reduction in price, they normally don't do big announcements for something like this. Now if/when the retina MacBook Airs come out you can be sure there'll be an announcement for that...
When I hear "the perfect is the enemy of the good" it's usually in response to the sentiment, "I can't ship this yet; it's not 'perfect'".

In the context of this article: You have a patient who needs to be treated -- today. They can't wait for a hypothetical perfect treatment. Indeed, more fundamentally, the only way to discover a "perfect" treatment would be to use today's least-worst solution, with the determination to measure and improve it continually.

Also the point of the article was that it's not so much the techniques -- which all the CF centers know about and use -- but the aggressiveness of their consistent application.

This isn't about a perfect design. It's about doctors who are willing to coach/goad/persuade patients into doing consistently what they already know they need to do. (And who are willing to be sticklers for consistency to the point of being a bit of a PITA to their colleagues.)
Feeding the hungry without inquiring why they are hungry can enable self-destructive and anti-social behavior such as drug addiction. Do the food banks and homeless shelters in San Francisco help the homeless turn around their lives?
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Very much agree with this comment. I'll be sticking to v28 for now and using the Classic Theme restorer to restore the lost features when I have to move up.

Sadly, this will become the fourth extension I run to restore features Firefox has removed.
This is their cheapest option and has an 11" display. If you want pixels then you should pay a little more and not complain when it is a little heavier:

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
Because people browsing https://news.ycombinator.com/newest decided to click on the upvote button. It seriously only takes 3 upvotes for something to end up on the front page.
Still, no 16 GB memory. The only thing left tying me to the MBP.
You're right - I forgot my MS-DOS history. Ahh, the days of 5-1/4" floppies and boot-sector viruses.

"Your PC is now Stoned!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_(computer_virus)
It has a slightly faster processor (don't be fooled by "1.3GHz", the MBA's top CPU speed is 2.6GHz) but there's a 500GB non-solid-state hard drive, it's heavier, the graphics are older, and it has a lower-resolution screen. Why would anyone want it?