skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering whether there is provision for wireless keyboard and mouse. Last week, a friend was asking whether they might substitute this for the Macbook they are considering purchasing. Their overall computer use is pretty light and Internet focused: Email, browsing, some light document editing (which Google Docs or similar could handle). Having the form factor of a tablet, without having to make two purchases, would be of use to them.

(My personal reaction to this approach was not entirely positive (e.g. guaranteed access to data and security of same?), but I take their point.)

P.S. Or wired input accessories. Wireless just seems more intuitively in line with the design and form factor.

Also, this was before the stronger rumors circulated about it hosting the iPhone version of their OS, although I was speculating/suspecting about just how locked up it would be. And without Flash (Gruber, et al.), its "general" browsing and online document editing potential will be limited.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046516

Web apps in Objective C --- the second-least safe programming language
on the market. Oh please, oh please, build your next huge application
in this. College tuition for my kids is freaking me out.
My work's internet firewall just picked up the "side benefit" of your site and blocked it for the following reason:

Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Proxy Avoidance"
This language makes me unhappy.
I do sometime wish Apple would bring back the original WebObjects framework with EOF. The Java version is not much fun.
Objective Measure (The fallacy of outsourcing)
Perhaps the problem is more that you didn't present them with an option to choose the auto-generated option. I think a graceful method would be to allow them to enter a zip code, but have a radio that has the auto-generated option as a choice. So they are presented with "Enter your location" which they proceed to click the radio box. Presumably you could then save the location they manually entered in via a cookie and present that as an option as well.
Or at least comparable to what the Cobra language has for contract support: http://cobra-language.com/docs/quality/
Point.

I remember my outrage and all of the groups that formed when Facebook created the concept of the "News feed." Remember when to see the differences in people's profiles you had to individually check them?
Following yesterday's discussion on the software architecs thread.

Doesn't the lack of experience, toughness and soft skills make it really hard to 20 somethings to have success as founders?

Maybe it's my environment but from what I have seen, I live in a latin country(one of the least of the latin ones, Portugal), your skills of comunication are fundamental. And every business initiative needs backstage moves.

People here will just dismiss you for your age or step on you on the first flaw.
It's getting more and more difficult to send legitimate email to a list through your own server these days. MailChimp's free tools have been helpful, but I think we'll have to bite the bullet and go certified soon.
"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

ip=208.128.7.7
location=france
ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah
Carbonmade: A Year In Review
If it has Bluetooth then it could simply be used with the existing Apple wireless keyboard and mouse (the one I'm typing on right now).
The HTML markup is atrocious and you just seem to be pawning the work off to another existing web service which does exactly the same thing you do (http://pdfmyurl.com/)?

Am I missing something?
I suspect what the GP is getting at is that UTF-8 is backward compatible with ASCII, so if all you're doing is working with 127-bit ASCII text files and you don't need the additional Unicode support there is minimal overhead.

UCS-2 and other multibyte Unicode representations don't have this useful property, so even with a simple ASCII file there a significant translation overhead is going to be required.
How To Protect Your Company: Static Advantages
Sometimes, it can also be a issue of identity (left/right politician, Java/Lisp programmer…)[1]. If you attack an idea that someone attached to his identity, it will be like you attack his very being. Common reactions can be dismay, denial, or even violence.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Yet for all their fancy algorithms, about two thirds of the people the system got was innocent.
Looks like query strings fail, when dumping in a google search I pdf's the main Google page, not the search result:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=cast+iron+c...
Are you indicating that my belief that Ubuntu is close to the usability of Mac or Windows is false, or that being easy to use is a problem?

Ubuntu certainly is very easy to use, Linux as a whole is not.
Ask HN: please review my apps search engine: AppsVu
I'm afraid that I didn't find it very accurate for my own URL: http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com

The letter spacing in one of the lines was about 10-15 pixels between each letter. Also it messed up the header.
Does anyone ever live on the water in the Bay Area? I saw some houseboats in Oakland when I was there last, and thought that it might be cool to live on a boat actually on the bay.
Would it be cool if the AA site searched all airlines (like Kayak does)? Oh, I would use that thing.

That's like saying "Wouldn't it be cool if Amazon displayed the prices of all of its competitors (like PriceGrabber does)?" It's a conflict of interest. Either the information is honest and helps competitors or it is dishonest and of no benefit to consumers.
> I've lurked HN for a while, but haven't given back in any way until today. My friend enjoyed this piece and encouraged me to share it to a wider audience, so here you are.

Off-topic, there, you were warned, but I've never understood lurking HN, reddit, digg, or any other karma-driven web community since all it takes is an upvote or downvote and suddenly you are no longer lurking. I mean why not create an account to simply save what you like? I think there is this sensitivity towards karma that affects HN more so than other communities, both good and bad, given it's intellectual user base and it's alliance to pg. IMO, karma is merely an indicator of user input and a value the rest of that community (the hive-mind) assigns for each input; my point being that as long as you're upvoting and downvoting anything you're still contributing, not lurking.
37signals is an obvious counter-example.
My guess? No.

If the tablet supports keyboards, people will think of it as half a laptop. The keyboard will be denigrated as an unofficially-required-but-not-included peripheral. Everyone will get stuck on the usability annoyances of lugging around a tablet with separated keyboard and 'how do you prop up the screen'. (Chance of integrated kick-stand is around 0)

Further, devs will get keyboards and write software that assumes people have them too, exacerbating the above.

A pen is iffy. I don't think Apple wants anyone thinking of the tablet as another-pen-based-mistake. Not while finger-on-iPod is such a smashing UI success. But the upside to a stylus is pretty huge (maybe they'll attempt to re-brand it as something else; a 'brush' perhaps).

But I think physical keyboards are right out.
I smack my lips in expectation of the usage of gets() in web apps.
Continuous Deployment, In Practice
For the alarm clock radio with iPod dock I just got for Christmas, I think the RESTful API would be easier to use than the array of buttons on that thing. My wife got the old, red-LED clock radio back out because she knew how to set the alarm on it.
I think, my UI is better :)
Actually, I did have that option. The difference is that I had the auto location by default with an option to enter it manually. Perhaps if I had tried it the other way around, it would have worked better. But neither would have really had any effect on the bottom line, so I didn't have the luxury of spending more time to test it.
Right now if the webpage is too wide it just cuts off. Is there any way you can resize it to fit?
Trying 2.8 did break some of my code (as expected from reading the 2.8 beta docs)
If you consider mobile gaming, DirectX is a non-starter.
>10 or 25 cents via your Amazon account;

Based on that, if you read 6 articles, you would be better of buying the damn paper - in print.

That is the problem, they think that what they want to sell is valuable, but it isn't.
It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
CutePDF (virtual printer that "prints" to a PDF) is usually one of the first things I install to any computer. In my opinion that is an easier solution then going to a website to print another website.
From the article:

"Our body language is also different from mundanes. We tend to not use eye contact nearly as often; when we do, it often signifies that it's the other person's turn to speak now. This is opposite of everyone else. In mundania, it's breaking eye contact that signals turn-taking, not making eye contact. She demonstrated this on
DDB; breaking eye contact and turning slightly away, and he felt insulted. On the other hand, his sudden staring at her eyes made her feel like a professor had just said "justify yourself NOW". Mutual "rudeness"; mixed signals."

I find this to be really true. Amazing I never noticed it before, but I often find eye contact dynamics to be a little bit awkward when talking to a non-geek, and I think this explains why.
That's exactly what I did. I got a bunch of emails informing me of "a bug that had something already typed into the location box," whether that default was accurate or not. Our users aren't necessarily the most tech-savvy.
The Green Banana Papers, Marketing Secrets For Technology Entrepreneurs is a good quick read that offers practical advice on what to do. http://bit.ly/GreenBananaPapers
All Marketers are Liars, Permission Marketing, Crossing the Chasm, Positioning, 4 steps to the epiphany

That's probably enough for a while. And if you haven't already read Getting Real then read that too.
However, if you consider mobile gaming then cross-platform code is a non-issue as well. When you're doing production mobile/console work, you spend so much time doing platform-specific optimizations, it's not even funny.
I haven't been this excited about a new programming language version in a long time. It almost feels like a bigger deal than the change from Java 1.4 to 1.5!
I didn't see any reason to see it as a cartoonish stereotype. It looked like honest reporting based on observation. In addition, from what I have seen it is very accurate.
It's been said already: we've got plenty of these services. What we really need is a site that does this in reverse on the fly/from a URL so we don't have to wait for PDF downloads just to view a schedule of bus routes.
After 3 Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment Has 35 Customers. Yes, 35.
I like it - may not be the expert user as others though!
Unless the redesign is a major step backwards, where you'll lose a lot of users with the redesign.

The website for the card game Magic:the Gathering is an example of that, they absolutely wrecked their webpage and forums, and I know that they lost a lot of forum users and webpage readers because of that (but maybe it's ok for them if they weren't the core audience).

I don't know if they did gain among the younger audience, so maybe the redesign was a success... I'll never know, as I'm not an insider.
Doesn't handle no results very well, it crashes.

Doesn't find apps that exist such as 'kira kira'
FYI: The link goes to TechCrunch, I copied it from Google Reader without realizing it would show as a Google url in the title. If anyone can change it, I would appreciate it as I know some people avoid TC and I wouldn't want to mislead!
Out of curiosity, how do you plan on monetising this?
oops: http://iphone.appsvu.com/broadersheet :)
Best of luck. Especially when you're going to upgrade 2 or 3,000 sites to the next major release.

Another big stumbling block I've noticed when hosting large numbers of drupal sites is that drupal uses a very large number of database tables (>50, sometimes >100) to accomplish relatively simple stuff causing big problems on the database servers.

If you host only a single site 100 tables is no big deal but when you have large numbers of small sites this becomes a real bottleneck.

I believe recent versions of drupal are a bit better behaved in this respect.
Good or Bad? - Keeping The Government Away With A Symbol About Online Privacy
You mean like this? http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://3e.org/cv.pdf
I didn't like that book. At least I don't think its theories apply to most projects and companies discussed here.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I have taken both art and computer science classes. From what I have seen the eye contact issue is definitely a real force. Also I've noticed minor differences in body language, particularly hand movements when talking. It is hard to explain, as I am not a particularly talented people observer, but I have noticed that art students do talk with their hands in a different way than computer science students do.
My Sites being DDosed, What can i do?
Hey, the site im hosting with 1&1 is currently being DDOS (for the last couple of days on and off) and the hosting company are not responding atm. Is there much i can do about it?
I think, I'm not going to monetize it.
I currently work for IBM doing this exact sort of thing. Its called PowerHA pureScale (used by DB2). Cluster application service providing, for shared data and network data concurrency.

Its actually a pretty cool technology and I can imagine that similar solutions will enter the market soon. Clustered applications is the next thing until we break past the physical wall on processing power and speed.

But also, who knows. Maybe clustering will be to data processing like SOA and web services were to web apps. Doubt it though.
Back when I was at Splunk we had a bunch of customer conversations around this type of use case. The basic recipe people implement goes something like this:

1. build a centralized logging store (definitely was a challenge for Twitter)

2. every N minutes a saved search/script runs on the last X many lines of logs searching for 50Xs (or whatever)

3. at a particular result threshold, another script is fired off to extract the URL methods responsible for the errors

4. using the extracted method, make a call to the load balancer to redirect that method's URLs to a fail page

5. alert an admin

One caveat here. If you find yourself in the cloud trying to do this, there are fewer tools available to you. Amazon's load balancer doesn't support layer 7, so you are left to implementing a software load balancer yourself on a single box that itself can fail under load.

F5 doesn't have a virtual appliance on Amazon (although they do on GoGrid), but you can run Zeus' ZXTM product, or a free one like nginx that does very basic redirects to accomplish the same thing.

It would rule if Amazon added layer 7 support to their ELB offering.
1. Whoa! Thanks! Must have introduced that bug a few minutes back while making last minute changes.
2. Working on the index quality - not fully indexed the market/appstore yet.

Thanks!
I know you're asking that question to point out what you consider to be obvious, but actually I would say the answer to the question is more "yes" than "no".

A redesign in this case may help get new users, but it's much easier (and more cost-effective) to retain existing customers than to gain new customers. So, if your change upsets existing users on any meaningful scale, then it's probably not a good idea.

I'm not saying to never redesign. I'm saying that you should redesign iteratively and in small steps, so that both existing and new users benefit. You never want to attempt gaining new users at the expense of existing users.
Switch to another host. There are thousands of other hosts out there.
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I've got various experiments using the RatPoision WM (which I use anyway) but I've never managed to get precise buffer dimensions out of emacs or deal properly with focus. How far along have you got?
The New Population Bomb: Four Mega Trends That Will Change the World
Ask HN: Incorporation and 83B election timing prior to funding
I am not yet incorporated, but will be doing so soon.

My question is how far in advance of a funding event do I need to incorporate and file an 83B election in order to pay tax upfront when the value is a penny per share?

I'm assuming I wish to avoid incorporating as part of a funding event when the valuation may make buying my stock upfront very costly.

What are the IRS guidelines for timing between incorporation and funding to avoid the problem? Does it matter if the funding is a convertible note (no valuation set) or for equity?

Thanks in advance for your help!

- Scott
The term "startup" has been misused so widely I think it's lost all meaning.
An unmonetized webapp is NOT a startup or mini-startup.
Scala/Java integration will always be somewhat of a problem, that requires thought and effort to get right. Any default way of converting between classes will leave some people going "WTF?". Jorge Ortiz's scala-javautils[1] can be helpful. Googling for these utils will lead to some blogposts discussing the problems of fully automatic conversion.

[1] http://github.com/jorgeortiz85/scala-javautils
its just the way you are prompting the download. Even IE blocks it. However it still shows the download. Many sites do this same thing just w/e code your using is not the correct way. 1 day you will learn that Opera is better :) Give it time.
Same old story: a corrupt government invokes patriotic feelings to counter attacks against itself from abroad (or inside, associate the opposition with external forces and call them traitors). I'm so sick of this.
Read some of the old direct response stuff from the last century. You'll surprised at how many similarities there are between direct mail and online.
-Claude Hopkins
-Robert Collier
-David Ogilvy
-Gene Schwartz
and others.
No they don't. Haven't for years now.

It's always the same: During the event you get live transcripts from the usual suspects, maybe an unofficial audio or video stream that sounds and looks as if it were transmitted live from hell. After the event, with maybe ten to twenty minutes delay, the Apple website will be back up and after a few hours (four or so) you can watch the webcast provided by Apple. But maybe don't try that in the first four hours or so if you want decent quality.
downvoted for accusatory wording and perceived tone.

otherwise, though, i ran into unreadable font issues myself for http://procrasdonate.com

worked well for my blog http://proudly.procrasdonate.com
Just thinking about the whole Droid thing a few months ago. That was a completely separate class as well...
Thanks. The crashing is fixed now. The index is still young as I validate the idea.
Live Blogging the Apple Product Announcement
Soros calls for break-up of big banks
Tell HN: 99 cent domains at GoDaddy
GoDaddy currently has a 99 cent dot com sale. Just use coupon code: BOWL2010.

Sadly it's only 1 per account, and can't be used for renewals, but I just got one.

Great way to save $6.50
Crashing is fixed now.
It's not so much that their cost structure has changed--it's that their revenue streams have dried up. Fewer people are reading physical papers, and web ad revenue has been on the decline for the past couple of years.

You can't compare the New York Times to a website run by a couple of people. Most small news sites get their content from other small news sites or from larger organizations that do a lot of the actual reporting (like the New York Times).
Quality of search results wasn't very high.

Quantity of ads on page was quite high.

Presentation made it difficult to skim the results.
Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.
Along with the new language version comes a new, completely rewritten Eclipse plugin, which can be installed using the update site:

http://www.scala-lang.org/scala-eclipse-plugin-beta-preview
Thanks. With regards to difficulty skimming: Is this because there'a a larger gap between results, or characteristics of the font, ...?
I think Apple may allow kayboards and mice but not right away. They might very well wait two or three years to first "educate" everyone about how tablets are supposed to work.

Just an example: I don't think it would harm the iPhone now if Apple started to sell pens. It would have hurt the iPhone when it started.
Keep notified of the latest designs - Public Femtoo Tracker available:

http://femtoo.com/index.php?action=TrackerLibraryLoad

(snitko - you can create your own Femtoo Tracker and add a 'Track this page' button to the site to keep people updated...)
Honestly I would rather spend my time developing apps rather than a site that shows peoples apps that have been developed already.
Derek Sivers: There are always more than two options
Looks odd when viewed on a large screen.

I'd personal make it 100% width or at least center it.
I love the hubris. "there are plenty of reasons, from lack of understanding of the profits that a good website eventually brings". Yes, the multi-billion dollar corporation has less of an idea what a more usable website would do to their bottom line, than some random guy with a posterous account.
Ask HN: How do I get Gmail to display 2 different accounts on one page?
I have two different gmail accounts. One is @gmail.com and the other is a google apps email account. Anybody know how to get both accounts displayed on the same page? (I thought of creating a frame page but I was hoping for something more elegant).
I think you're wrong. Once you go down the path to doing consulting, you lose the hunger to build the product business because the money keeps coming in.

pg says[1] that most product startups die when they become consulting businesses, and I think he's right. Do you have counter-examples of how a product startup became a consulting company and then went back to being a product startup? Not saying it isn't do-able, just that it's much harder. I'm in the spot now, and having an interesting time dealing with the challenges.

EDIT: By wrong, I mean, I think you're right that you shouldn't let the consulting business interfere but in practice that is almost impossible to do.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html#f2n
Named and especially default arguments is the win for me. I couldn't bring myself to start ripping out our Java code just to have to do all of the same silly method duplication all over the place.
OK! Thanks - I'm guessing it looks squeezed to the left now.
I'm going to reiterate this point (I actually just said it a few days ago)

Set up MobileMe to track your device _before_ you lose/get stolen your iPhone.

You can't set it up after the fact. Which painfully sucks.
Live From The Apple Tablet Event
From the selected examples in the article it looks like the biggest mistakes one could make would be in Greece and the Mediterranean. Many of the hand gestures which are innocuous in the West are quite vulgar in the Mediterranean area.
How to find sales prospects on LinkedIN
Some tips for finding sales prospects and being a super user on LinkedIN
I pretty much agree with you on AdBlock. Except at the moment there are those really horrible teeth whitening ads. I just can't take constantly being shown images of close up yellowing teeth.
Anyone want to fill in a non-web programmer on what pixel-tagging is?
I think the lesson to learn is that when you are in other countries, just don't use hand gestures at all unless you are completely sure they are good.
The First Hand Experience of an Enterpreneur at the Open Angel Forum
The current reading of tea leaves says the tablet will have the iPhone OS, which means, perhaps, a reasonably sized software keyboard in landscape mode?

I agree that physical keyboards are out, though.