skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
looks like the screen is four times the size of an iPhone. it can run iPhone apps, either tiled or pixel-doubled to fullscreen. it is of course tied to the App Store. there will be an emulator to develop for it, just like the iPhone. the new SDK and emulator is supposedly available today.

the liveblog sites are too overloaded for me to get much more than that.
Brushes, also known as MS Paint for iTouch
i can only hope that either because this isn't a phone, a more robust modding community will develop around it, or that a more developer-friendly tablet will be released shortly.
But, unlike the kindle, it has games and video.

I say it's a winner.
AAPL is down about 2% since the event started... apparently the market doesn't like what it sees
I agree, mostly.

I didn't want to see apps. I wanted to see packages. The NYT missed a huge opportunity to sell subscriptions just now, for example.
If it's running existing iPhone apps by emulating the ARM CPU, that's pretty impressive.
Engadget definitely has a severe bias towards Apple compared to say Sony or Microsoft.

Their readers are technophiles who can figure out whether to be excited on their own unless it's not obvious. Seeing some of the stuff on the iPad isn't terribly exciting for me. They haven't shown the eReading capabilities yet though.
that goes hand in hand with your package.

I run only linux in all my machines - but I think that until KDE can get a decent network manager up and working or UVC webcams start working out-of-the-box, I dont see an Apple like presentation.
I'd like to see a list of actual specs and interfaces before saying if I'm underwhelmed or not.

A giant iphone does not seem to be most that can be gotten out of this formfactor, a device that runs the regular OS would have possibly had a customer more (me).

Does anybody have a list of confirmed specs ?
Hmm. So, we've got a handheld device with a slick UI, that can be used for video, audio, email, games, and reading, has a long battery life, and reasonable performance ... the first iteration of the mythical "tablet" that everyone's been talking about for two years now ... and the general reaction is that it's too much like a fancy Walkman?
This is not really true with platforms like the iPhone, which support OpenGL ES 2.0. If you're talking about a AAA iPhone game -- sure, you will need to design specifically for the exact specs of the device. However, if you are porting a game that does not require absolutely 100% of the iPhone's capabilities, I think you would be surprised how easy it is to cross compile, for example, Black Shades for the iPhone.
The first line of this article reads:

"After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation"

What is that based on, that decade?
Point well taken!

But I'd argue that "the first iteration of the mythical "tablet" was the iphone 3GS.

It's smaller form factor makes it the more exciting (and marketable) tool.

BUT - reserving judgement for Steve's infamous WOW moment (fingers crossed).

A dock, awesome multitouch, or something along those lines would help a lot.
The Apple silicon is an ARM CPU.
You mean it's still basically like devices that Apple sold about 10+ million of last quarter?
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The iPAD has actually been out for a while now:

http://www.currentdirections.com/hardware/fujitsu/ipad100.ht...

I think Apple may have a little problem here in the trademark department.
If they include a pull-out or pluggable physical keyboard, arranged to allow the pad to stand like a frame, it could be a great replacement for most netbooks and allow for hands-free reading--therefore a Kindle killer as well.

Wonder if they have ever considered the idea and reject it simply for the aesthetics of having the simplest, smoothest device possible. Aesthetics is good, but if a small compromise can be made for much greater functionality, it would be a good trade-off.

I think some other companies might have come up with a device I described above, anyone here knows of one. I would consider buying it. A link would be appreciated.
I don't understand some of the negativity here. My credit card is already tingling in my pocket ready to pre-order at the first opportunity.

The proof will be in the pudding - but a device with a decent screen size, with 10 hours battery life, that I can use for browsing the internet from the bed/living room is great.

I have an iphone, I have an MBP, I have an Acer Aspire One (running Linux) But all of these are not quite perfect. The speed improvement of the 3GS over the 3G makes a big difference, but it's still not quite the perfect browsing device. My Acer never gets used - I agree with Steve Jobs that it's worse at everything. The MBP is pretty good - but it's a bit heavy at 2KG versus < 1KG iPad and most of the time the keyboard is redundant.

I want one :-)
Reality distortion field. See Fake Steve Jobs:

"I’ve made this suggestion before but let me try this again: Why don’t you fucktards just stop trying to predict what we’re going to put out? Why not just show up like everyone else, sit there with your notebooks on your lap and your hands in the clap position and just wait to hear what the fuck we say and then cheer wildly like a pack of idiots when we give you the "applause" cue? Is that so fucking hard? I mean, Mossberg and Pogue manage to do it, right? How hard can it be?"

http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/gruber-grubers-self-gets-do...
Thank you very much. On the note of design, I would have a little secret to share with you: http://spillbound.com/secrets/34 :D
Well, the iPod touch is a damn impressive device.
Not to mention HP's iPAQ line which has been around for quite a number of years.
iBooks publishing competing directly with Kindle is interesting. AAPL floating back up, AMZN falling (http://www.google.com/finance?hl=en&safe=off&q=amazo...)
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No 3G. Less space than a netbook. Lame.
Personally I am. With all the hype, I thought the heavens would have opened and a new wave of revolutionary and disruptive technology would have rained down on us. IMHO it's just re-packaging of existing technology.
Ok. Kindle's dead.
Yes, in the part about the 'v sign':

* Winston Churchill probably used the palm inwards version until it was explained to him that it was a rude gesture.

* The 'archers' explanation is very likely wrong.

* You hardly ever see it in England nowadays, it's been replaced by the single middle finger.

As you say, it makes you wonder how reliable the rest of the article is.
Interesting that McGraw-Hill isn't listed as one of their book partners. Were they dropped after their CEO opened his mouth yesterday I wonder? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079109
"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news."
I have observed a Law of Steve Jobs. If he hypes it, it will suck. If he says nothing, it will rock. The iPhone he said nothing about. Before today, he was hyping the iPad as the most important thing he's ever done.
Except this doesn't replace any of those...
I bet someone in Boston will hear the announcement and think, "An iPad? So what? I've had an iPad for yeahs"

This was probably the most predictable Apple "new product" release I've ever seen. I'm not really thrilled about it, but then again I'm not really a gadget kind of guy
I dug Made to Stick. http://madetostick.com
I don't think so. Kindle targets people reading stuff, this targets people interacting with stuff.

That's a fundamental difference and e-ink lends itself to reading much more than to interaction.

Also, the kindle has a battery life that this device can't hope to match and works well in various light conditions.
nice touch showing the amazon kindle ;)
NOT iPad Commercial.
iBooks, apparently a more expensive version of Amazon's kindle store: Ted Kennedy iBook was listed at 14.99 while the kindle version is 9.99
The pointer is never as precise as I want it to be- mine is always a few pixels off, and every other tablet I've tried has been worse. You can argue or justify etc all you like, but I have always found this very disorienting.

Handwriting recognition is also approaching perfection, but it's not quite close enough yet. Maybe for some people with good handwriting it is 'there', but I'm not one of them, and I have to stop and correct a word too often.
Plus, symbols recognition is tricky, along with words not out of the dictionary, so command prompt and programming are not fun.

Yes, stylus + touch screen > touch screen, imho. However, correct me if I am wrong, but Mr. Jobs did not show a stylus once during the presentation.
From the article:
"But the proponents of Open Access quickly realized that online publishing is not free, nor cheap. Management, equipment, and access costs add up quickly. [...] [PLOS] charges between $1,350 and $2,900 per paper, depending on the journal. In fact, many in the profession estimate that to be sustainable, the author-pay model will need to charge up to $5,000–$8,000 per publication"

WTF? $8000 per article would pay for each article to have its own EC2 instance for >10 years, including bandwidth costs. Something not right there...
No, this is a new account doing a dummy test post for some reason. The thing to do is flag it.
After resigning from my job at an IP firm, I decided to undertake the learning and use of Dvorak over QWERTY. I got rather proficient at it and like it a lot.

Programmer’s Dvorak is particularly awesome – my most often used keys were readily available and my typing speeds were much higher.

Something suffered though. My emacs environment used a Dvorak command remapping mode that played nice with some of my other major modes but broke the majority of my most often used commands in some very important modes. I chose to forgo Dvorak and switch back to QWERTY because I didn’t want to maintain multiple different remapping packages for my Emacs environment, BIG pain in the ass.

I did, however, become a much better QWERTY typer because of it and greatly wish to become ambi. Maybe my next go will be a project in itself to better support Dvorak with my Emacs environment!
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Ask HN: book recommendations for linux server admin?
I'm an experienced developer, but have never done any significant server administration. I can use vi and navigate the filesystem, but that is about it.

We are moving our low latency trading application from Windows to linux. I'm not becoming a server admin, but we're a small company, and I'll likely be managing the performance lab machines.

I'm looking for book recommendations given the following:
+ We're going to use RH or SUSE (not yet decided)
+ We may end up running a realtime version: RH/MRG or SLERT
+ We have ~50 servers
+ We're interesting in tuning network performance to improve latency and may want to adjust process priorities.
+ We won't be running a window manager
+ Our servers are not connected to the internet: we aren't handling email or web traffic

Thanks!
No phone. Less computing power than a MacBook. Lame.
Your words make no sense. You don't like the OS except on a phone but not on a phone but this isn't the iPhone OS whatsoever.

Also: Can we not say stupid things until Steve finishes telling us everything? As I type this they're just announcing iWork. I don't fucking see iWork on my fucking iPhone, or on a netbook for that matter, so let's not conflate the two.
Another wave of developers trying to make it rich by going through the AppStore. Let the nightmares begin?

The minute there is no middle man on a competent mobile device (Android is getting there), Apple could lose a lot of business.
Isn't TM by category though?

Here's the Fujitsu TM:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:kb...

And here's the likely Apple:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:kb...
Yes, it definitely is. But we've come to expect more of Apple than larger form-factor versions of existing products.
That's a valid point for businesses in general. However, for customer facing businesses like DHL or AA that depend on their websites for a large part of their customer interaction, caring a lot about your website would seem to be pretty important.

I haven't worked in that situation before, but what is likely happening is that the managers in these large orgs are 50+, didn't grow up with the internet, and don't fully appreciate things like the importance of awesome design in your front page.
If you're halfway smart and not just one of the 'I got it first' crowd I'd advice your credit card to solidly cling to the inside of your pocket for the next 6 months.

Let others deal with the inevitable 1.0 bugs.

When dealing with new technology second best is best.
More marketable? Hardly.

My mother wants something that she can lie down on a couch with, read books, check email, be relaxed. You can't do that in the iPod comfortably.

Note that Steve's doing all this in a comfy chair. That's what this is. It's a comfy chair device.
Apple iPad biggest news is Apple A4 chip. Now they fully control supply chain
Google maps app on iPhone is not a web app. iPhone has OpenGL.
Let's call this Rob's Corollary:

If it gets hyped before it gets unveiled, consumers will get disappointed.
No "wow" event? Big deal. The thing will still sell like hotcakes, be easy to use, and be the best thing to happen to the tablet/pad/slate computer market (by way of legitimizing said market), full stop.
Probably a beefed-up ARM11 or Cortex A9 derived CPU.
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Me neither! I was holding my iPad right now and totally using it, and my thoughts were, like, now that I've actually physically held this thing I can't imagine who would use it. I'm imagining you're not liking your physical copy either?
I have to joke. It just seems so overblown. Because of the over-hyped nature of this event, I think the wags are more interesting than the event itself.

"Just like a iPhone. Except bigger so we'll make even more money!"

"Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it"

And still a locked-down platform? Color me not impressed.
I bought a Toshiba Portegé TabletPC and it was killer to surf the Internet and read books on the couch or in bed. I will buy an iPad for reading alone. Throw in the ability to watch my collection of movies that are already in my iTunes, read my books that are already in pdf...

I'm an early adopter, so "The plural of anecdote is not data." But I don't need much more to want one.
Waiting for the price. I see it as more of a toy than a tool, so a want than a need. Consumers are likely more price sensitive on toys.

I can see an amazing play for the casual gaming market and taking a cut on the distribution with the app store.

Edit: The $499/629 seems appropriate, not too high.
And how much is it... refresh refresh refresh
I am not impressed.

I was really hoping that Apple would come up with a compelling need for the tablet, but the demos they showed were, in my opinion, unimaginative. Tablets have been around forever as solutions looking for a problem; the iPad does not rectify that situation.

The iPhone has been successful to a great extent because, well, people need cell phones anyway, so why not get a cool one? People don't need a tablet computer. People aren't looking to replace their existing tablet computers.

I hope I'm wrong. I hope that somebody figures out a really good reason for having a tablet computer. But I've owned a tablet in the past (Motion M1400), and I don't see it happening.
Really?? This isn't digg.
Apple's history with the iPhone/iPod though is that the hardare is generally pretty good at launch and all bugs are in the software/firmware which can be fixed.

It won't be a business critical tool for me - I will happily deal with some of the teething issues.

Still want one ;-)
At this point mostly curious, not about the device that part is underwhelming but the new processor is mildly interesting.
From Engadget:

> 10:18AM "Now if I want to send a message, I hit compose -- up pops this gorgeous keyboard." Steve is typing, it looks very responsive.

I would be extremely disappointed in Apple if they produced a device that was supposed to be capable of handling email, and you couldn't type on it. I suspect they've managed to solve the multi-touch/OSD keyboard problem somehow, which would be neat.
"Once again, I’m not arguing that the grass-fed alternative isn’t a viable response to the problems of factory farming grain-fed cows. I’m only suggesting to advocates of the grass-fed option that, if they feel so compelled to draw on the past to support the present, they should start by providing some footnotes."

McWilliams would be advised to do the same. All he listed were people advocating the use of corn to feed cows. He gave no evidence that cows actually were being fed grain at those time. In fact he's doing exactly what he accuses grass advocates of doing, just the opposite argument.
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Yes, so why the attention to the 10 millionth and 1st? It's just more of the same.
I thought you are supposed to under promise and over deliver?

I see nothing new and innovative.
I would have liked a touch+stylus screen, if wacom can do it apple should be able to do it too
This is basically a crunchpad - but it's probably be going to be $1000. Yes this device has a niche, but it depends on the price point...
If they include a pull-out or pluggable physical keyboard, arranged to allow the pad to stand like a frame, it could be a great replacement for most netbooks and allow for hands-free reading--therefore a Kindle killer as well.

Wonder if they have ever considered the idea and reject it simply for the aesthetics of having the simplest, smoothest device possible. Aesthetics is good, but if a small compromise can be made for much greater functionality, it would be a good trade-off.

I think some other companies might have come up with a device I described above. Anyone here knows of one? I would consider buying it. A link would be appreciated.
Horrible name, and no flash..again?
What a serious waste of money
There are so many Internet business models but why is it that the subscription model is the only one they can think of.

Newspaper industry clearly needs a new business model. But the bigger problem is really the management who are incapable of coming up with one, or incapable of executing.

This is really a people problem.
Not many techies getting wowed by this but the question is will it sell? I think it will. Infact I think Apple has possibly opened a market for non-tech savy people like mums, dads and grans who find basic things like email and internet trivial.
I see this going the way of the Macbook Air.
I might be underwhelmed, but I am looking forward to being able to read newspapers and magazines comfortably on a mobile device.
Surely something like Dasher would work fine on this device---why aren't we seeing more of that (or other similarly clever input techniques)?
Quote: This is exactly why Microsoft won't see a red cent from the Chinese for their software: why pay a premium for the legitimate version when the copy does the exact same thing for cheaper?

When I worked at Microsoft I got to listen to people working on relationship with China around software licensing (i.e not Bing). Accordibng to them the micro-software sells very well there. It was not a smooth sailing by any means and it took a lot of work, not unlike it took Bill Gates a lot of work to start selling software in the US when people were copying it for free instead in 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists). The visit of Chinese president to Microsoft campus couple of years ago has symbolized the turning point.

Could you help me reconcile your point quoted above with the first-hand information I was presented? Thank you.
"Share secrets that launch and expire."

I'd probably reword that. I wasn't sure what "launch" meant. At first I thought it was submitted to news sites and blogs and twitter automatically.

The UI is pretty good though.

Question: How do I see a list of secrets?

Right now all I can do is create my own secret, I can't see anyone elses.

Nice domain name by the way.
ynterestingly, Fujitsu already have this particular product name trademark and apple has been trying to wrestle yt away from them for a while now.

yt ys an ynteresting feat of branding that apple has been able to establish president that they have claim to any name starting with the letter i. (The same thing happened with Cisco and the iPhone).

Personally, y've always found that particular piece of branding obnoxious. Really? a lowercase i?

Luckily we have cognates and perhaps y-combinator can release its own brand of yPhone, yTouch, and yPad? (all, of course, running on a lisp OS).
I know, right? TechCrunch has such an extensive history of creating brilliant, usable interfaces?

But you're wrong. This doesn't have a niche. This is going to replace many, many niches. This is going to be what people buy instead of laptops. Unless I'm a hardcore user that needs pro tools, this will do everything I want a computer to do. And it will do it sexier, and sleeker, and it won't have any of the rough edges that my laptop does.
Their loss, really. Someone who's in the habit of speaking in complex sentences with formal diction can usually, with a bit of extra effort, talk like a normal person. It's harder to go the other way.
It's .6mHz slower than my Dell Mini 9 that's running Snow Leopard, which I take everywhere with me. The mini has a real VGA out port, SD card slot, three powered USB ports, and I can use any OSX application on it. This...can use iPhone apps.

I don't want one. TOTALLY underwhelmed.
The innovation was in the iPhone. The news apps, book apps, content consumption and games, all MOBILE. The i-pad makes these innovations PRACTICAL with a bigger screen, and that is something worth buying.
Where's the expanded multitouch gesture vocabulary from the FingerWorks technology they acquired? That would have made iPad special. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041628
Or just a USB port to plug in a mouse.

What would also be nice is that if it has a USB port so that you can download movies/books from your PC to the tablet. And it also should charge through USB...
True. Now we can start a countdown until they move their proprietary chip into the iPhone.
To be fair, Apple didn't promise much. The lunatic media did.
I think publishers provide the valuable services like proofreading, aid the peer-review process and content filtering. They SUCK at distribution though and should not be in the distribution business.

Now who is good at distribution? arXiv is.
Their costs are less than 7$ per publication, they are seriously lean and efficient.

<quote>
How much does arXiv cost to operate?
The annual budget for arXiv is $400,000. With over 60,000 new submissions per year one may think of this as an effective cost of <$7 per submission. Alternatively, with over 30,000,000 full-text downloads per year this is an effective cost of <1.4 cents per download. We believe that arXiv is an extremely cost-effective service.
</quote> http://arxiv.org/help/support/faq

Now the question is how to keep the useful aspects of publishing and not have to pay for them. An army secretaries, a bunch of typesetting gurus and some method for peer-review... tall order i know.
There are plenty of other MP3 players out there, but they haven't hurt the iPod (much).

Google is great at certain things, but UI is not one of them. Their user experience suffers the Linux Problem: it's perpetually unfinished and incomplete, and regular computer users just don't like it. (Techs love it though.)