skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the awkwardness in the presentation and the other videos was partly due to the fact that there were cameras watching and it was a demonstration so they had to make the movements very obvious. This would perhaps have made the motions more exaggerated and unnatural looking. Think of that feeling you get when someone is watching you at the keyboard type or doing something that you would not normally think too hard about. The moment you start thinking about it is when you mess up.

I for one think that the interface looks very intuitive and quite easy to get to grips with. I think it should be more comfortable since you don't need to learn how to interact with the device. Holding and interacting with it should become quite a natural thing.
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"Okay, I admit, the socialist connection was a pretty small part of my essay, albeit an intriguing one. (It intrigued you, right?) My main reason for choosing the title I did was to try to ensure that you read through the entire column."
Though you never know what effect having Facebook's name attached to the program would have done for its acceptance into the ranks of PHP programmers. Would you rather help Facebook do something or phpcompiler.org do something...
The bad ergonomics was my initial thought, too.

A laptop is bad enough in that the keyboard and the screen is too close together, forcing you to either tilt your neck forward or fold your elbows to get your hands high enough, but at least you can angle the screen and keyboard independently. To be able to type comfortably, the surface more or less needs to be aligned with your forearm, but on the Ipad, that will put the screen at a 45-degree angle from your eyes.

That's in addition to the difficulty of touch-typing on a multitouch surface. I used to have a Fingerworks Touchstream (the original multitouch controller), and it was very difficult to type on without moving your hands slightly and ending up on different keys. (And it even had a row of dots to give you a tactile sensation of where home row was.) If you were in an even slightly unstable situation -- forget it; totally unusable on a train or bus.

I can see how it could be useful for watching videos or passive browsing, but not for any amount of extended typing.
Lễ hội văn hóa xuân tại Cao Lãnh – Đồng Tháp
Lễ hội văn hóa xuân tại Cao Lãnh – Đồng Tháp

“ du lich hang ngay “ - Với chủ đề “Hà Nội - Ngàn năm văn hiến, Đồng Tháp - Trăm năm sen vàng”, Lễ hội văn hóa xuân được tổ chức từ ngày 14 - 16/2/2010 tại công viên Văn Miếu (thành phố Cao Lãnh, tỉnh Đồng Tháp) nhân dịp Tết Canh Dần 2010, kỷ niệm 190 năm thành phố được mang tên Cao Lãnh, đặc biệt Đại lễ kỷ niệm 1.000 năm Thăng Long - Hà Nội, hứa hẹn nhiều điều hấp dẫn, mới mẻ cho người dân vùng Nam Bộ cũng như du khách tham quan vui xuân.
Theo Ban tổ chức, lễ hội bao gồm nhiều hoạt động văn hóa - nghệ thuật, triển lãm nhằm giới thiệu những thành tựu văn hóa, kinh tế - xã hội của Cao Lãnh - Đồng Tháp như: chương trình đờn ca tài tử Nam Bộ; khu triển lãm ảnh đẹp về Cao Lãnh; khu triển lãm cây cảnh, hoa mai, bon sai, cá kiểng, gà kiểng – những sản vật nổi tiếng của đất Cao Lãnh và thưởng thức các tiết mục múa lân–sư–rồng…

Hình ảnh hồ Hoàn Kiếm sẽ được tái hiện tại hồ Khổng Tử (Cao Lãnh - Đồng Tháp)

Bên cạnh đó, với ý nghĩa hướng đến Đại lễ kỷ niệm 1.000 năm Thăng Long - Hà Nội, tại lễ hội sẽ có các hoạt động tái hiện hình ảnh Thủ đô ngàn năm văn hiến, trong đó, nổi bật là hoạt động trang trí đường hoa xung quanh khu vực công viên Văn Miếu và trưng bày mâm ngũ quả khổng lồ với đường kính 14m, chiều cao 4m - quy tụ tất cả những loại trái cây Nam Bộ và ngôi chùa Một Cột của Hà Nội sẽ được đặt ở giữa mâm trái cây này, xung quanh dát những tấm phù điêu làm bằng ngũ cốc như: hạt gạo, đậu, ngô... mang ý tưởng hòa quyện văn hóa 2 miền Nam, Bắc.

Người dân vùng Nam Bộ và du khách cũng sẽ có dịp cảm nhận và hướng về một Hà Nội cổ kính thông qua biểu tượng Tháp Rùa, Hồ Gươm, cuộc thi vẽ tranh với chủ đề “Hà Nội trong mắt em”…

Ngoài các hoạt động trên, lễ hội còn có một số hoạt động khác như: xác lập mâm ngũ quả là kỷ lục Guiness Việt Nam, giới thiệu nghệ thuật thư pháp, trà đạo, biểu diễn máy bay mô hình, trưng bày sản phẩm của các doanh nghiệp Việt Nam nhằm kêu gọi người dân tích cực tham gia cuộc vận động “Người Việt Nam ưu tiên dùng hàng Việt Nam”.
I don't see the issue here. Anyone who beats Facebook is going to have to offer nearly all of Facebook's features and some killer-app features of its own. So any Facebook-killer will make it similarly easy to integrate a FBKiller-Connect feature.

And the ramp up of any Facebook-Killer is going to be months or years. In that intervening few years, people will be dual-networked: they'll be using the new network with their friends who have the new network, and they'll be using Facebook for the friends that haven't switched or for legacy features (Farmville), sort of like now, where many people have both a Facebook and a MySpace.

And given the existing fundamental lock-in of the network effects, I don't think Facebook Connect is the largest hurdle someone plotting a Facebook-Killer has to overcome.
Of course, someone would have said the same thing about IBM a few decades ago, or Internet Explorer 8-10 years ago. And they were saying it about Yahoo and Altavista and MySpace before Facebook and Google came along.
actually, there is a reason. because in IE6 it breaks depending on context. if you have an incorrect content header and don't prefix http:// on your url, then having an html 5 doctype makes your page try to "download" instead of display.

Whereas having a doctype that matches the tags you actually use, (xhtml or html4) will work fine without the http:// prefix. As most people don't use that prefix when typing your url, this can have a drastic effect on your page views.
I think #10 is pretty much a truism (but still important to remember!).
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That's so true about all other games.

I've a copy of Mass Effect 2 I bought last week and I haven't played it yet. I fear playing it for the loss of time.
In fact, he was the first to point out that most of them were wrong. But he did get the general concept right in most cases.
True, but at least an interactive game like WoW engages the parts of your mind that are responsible for strategy, social interaction and goal-setting. Not saying it is much better than TV, but I would be willing to bet it's not at the same level of brain-rot.
I'd come. I'm sure swombat would too.
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I can't believe this person has never heard the term 'over-educated' before. It expresses a populist sentiment which accuses those who have spent too much time in academia from of not being in touch with the working class.

It implies elitism and a lack of practicality: the 'over-educated' person is privileged, (how else could he afford such an education?) considers himself better than the average person and worthy of telling him what to do and how to live, but has not contributed to society in any meaningful way himself.
Not much, but why would you switch to html5? There is limited support for actual html5 elements, and if your not using them, then your not using html5, just html4 loose.

It's not like any browser is going to drop the html4 doctype so until there is widespread support for html5 elements (footer, article etc) there is no real benefit other than pr.
Eh, deciding ergonomics by a democracy of internet users is pointless (99% of them are probably just repeating things they read on the internet anyway).

Dvorak will reduce the amount of finger motion. Other claims require further proof, but it's fairly trivial to demonstrate that dvorak is better for your hands.
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There are only a few weeks left before the NBA trading deadline hits and the Portland Trail Blazers, with a few injuries to its front line, would apparently like to make a deal for a big man before then, according to ESPN.
The point here is not necessarily to protect a potential "Facebook Killer," but rather to protect any service that wants and deserves its own piece of the social web. This isn't about duplicating Facebook's feature set but improving on it.
Agreed. And not only is he on camera in front of thousands of people (one of them being Steve Jobs), he's also got a cable coming out of the dock connector going to the giant screen; if he unplugs it, it'd be a real interruption and distraction to the presentation. And, (especially on a not-yet-final product like the iPad) you'd worry about whether the external display would connect back up if you replugged it, etc...

I guess what I'm saying is that I sit way differently when my laptop's hooked up to, say, an external hard drive and I don't want to accidentally pull out the USB than when I'm curled up on the couch with a blanket and my worry-free not-attached-to-anything phone.
As a dvorak programmer, it just prompted me to write more python. If you're typing {} characters all day, you should consider how much semantic value that's adding to your programs vs. the cost to type them.

Other characters (',."<>) are clear wins on dvorak, and they contain considerably more semantic value than {} do in any language. ";" is also easier in dvorak.
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Why do they bother you? Its literally a matter of

<input type="text" name="email" />

vs.

<input type="text" name="email">

Why do you prefer the latter? (Genuinely curious, not being rude)
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A question for googlers: what's the work-life balance like working over there? If you've worked at any of the other top tech companies, is it any better/worse than your previous gig?
Have you got a link describing this issue?

I've not heard about it before and Google's not giving me anything.
I love Japan, but pretty much nothing about that kind of working environment sounds attractive.
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I just put together a touch-screen friendly version of HN:

http://mhm.gd/hn/

It uses the RSS feed and displays it in big thumb-friendly format. The one image and CSS files are on a proper CDN (CloudFront) with proper cache headers. All told, the whole page is ~5kb, which even on GPRS is fine.

I tested it on a G1 (Android) and an iPhone and it looks good.
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Apple demos NY Times.

Google demos Hacker News.
Good point. That wasn't hard to predict.
Only if you are recording audio as well. The wiretapping law applies to secretly recording audio, not video.

Edit: A good read, from the RCFP... http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
afraid not, as I recently came across it and have fixed it by adjusting the content headers. it's a quick fix, but can be detrimental as a lot of web servers will present the incorrect content headers and developers will be completely unaware since browsers will obey doctypes over content headers (I think). In this particular case IE6 will obey the content header since it doesn't understand the html5 doctype and will try to "download" the content instead.

It should be trivial to setup a test case if you want. Setup a virtual host with an empty content-type html header, and a html5 doctype and open it in IE6 without putting http:// before the url. You should see it try to download the page.
I'm always a little confused about how much people love to bash WoW, and call it such a waste of time. Sure, there are people who throw away massive amounts of time into the game, but there are plenty of other people who play a reasonable amount.

I spend 2 evenings a week raiding, with 1-2 hours throughout the week (plus another hour or two on the weekends, when I can) doing other things. Twice a week, a group of 10 friends get together, log onto WoW and a Ventrilo server, and mess around for a few hours. I think of it a lot like a bowling/poker night for some guys, except you're significantly more likely to invite a new, potentially interesting person to a WoW raid than you are to your weekly game.

Honestly, I find the whole "If it does not have direct monetary value, or somehow advance my career/list of contacts, it isn't worth doing" stance that many people take rather disturbing. No, playing WoW doesn't directly benefit me, but the indirect benefits have been pretty awesome. I've kept in touch with several old friends I otherwise wouldn't have, met a lot of interesting people, and it gives me something I can talk about with at least 10% of the population. And that's all on top of just playing a well designed, pretty fun game.
And some more:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200501/the_perils_of_u...

http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/12/xhtml-beginners
* Universal (cross-platform, cross-browser) synchronisation.

* Tracking my most-searched-then-clicked-on links, and showing them in a "Personal Top 10" stack for quick viewing, which in turn would be its' own bookmark folder.
Deep understanding should discourage one from making predictions, though.
Google couldn't do that reliably until, hmm, two years ago, ish? (GoogleBot still doesn't execute all Javascript, but it is getting smarter about both heuristic evaluation and limited execution. Test if you're skeptical, for example, by linking to pages "obviously" from within Javascript, linking to them using something a wee bit tricky like Prototype -> AJAX load a static file with the link in it, and then try with something where you need full execution to evaluate the link URL. Then see which pages Googlebot visits. For best results do this from a well-loved page.)
There seems to be a wave of media attention on this following the release and popularity of "Born to Run".

If you are a runner or would like to be one, it's a good read. And if you haven't found out about it yet, check out Vibram Five Finger "shoes" which allow you to start barefoot running without the callouses and hard skin: http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/
Hmm, I was expecting a bit closer of a connection, but I suppose this'll do. A better "math is a socialist plot" argument, though, could focus on a 19th-century "scientific socialism" approach to optimizing society and the economy via central planning.
I can't believe this person has never heard the term 'over-educated' before. It expresses a populist sentiment which accuses those who have spent too much time in academia from of not being in touch with the working class.

If the author has never heard this term before, it suggests the accusation is correct in his case.
The article talks about a particular behavior in markdown when leading spaces are potentially ambiguous. However, it seems that there is an error, as the input in one example contains the strings "one" "two" "three" "four", the output is said to contain "one" "two" "two" "two".

When writing programming articles showing actual code, it is quite important to get all the details right. A reader seeing the first non-reproduceable result will lose confidence in the presentation.
#1: XML DB has nothing to do with NoSQL. Even if there is some external similarity with document stores actually the main point of the author is that people don't want to perform conversions. This was not the reason NoSQL started at all and not our main problem with SQL in the latest years.

#2: This has nothing to do with Github or hosting of source code. Here the author was referring to sell the service of running a web application for you, like a forum or a wiki, and so forth. something like vanilla forums or wordpress.org are doing indeed. IMHO this prediction was more or less totally wrong, as the latest five years showed us that web applications are a big business but companies will try to rewrite from scratch the product they are offering in order to take it closed source, to offer more in terms of usability, and probably even for scalability concerns.

Actually the reverse happened, for instance Reddit instead to use a Digg clone wrote the code, and later released it as open source.
It took me a while to get used to using my iPod Touch when I first got one (since upgraded to iPhone 3GS). While it's certainly possible there will be ergonomic issues with the iPad, I wouldn't worry about it until we see those sorts of reports from people who have used the device for days instead of for 10-15 minute demos.
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Re #2, I don't think its fair to count EC2, Github, or Heroku, unless you're also counting any shared hosting that lets you run PHP.

I think what Steve was referring to was people paying for hosted versions of specific pieces of open source software, e.g., a hosted version of SugarCRM, not the ability to run open source software in general.

It was still prescient though, because we're starting to see that. For instance, you can do this with Azure + SugarCRM.
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I'd probably come too if the date worked
The Mormon Church bought all the advertising space in CA? That's quite a feat.
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He's still wrong on most of them, whether you strongly disagree or not.

1. This one is so mushy, it's wrong just because of it. Substituting your favourite representation format (JSON instead of XML) doesn't make it any better or really anything to do with databases.

2. It's happening if you think EC2, Github and Heroku are somehow comparable. Also which one of these is making 'a lot of money' as predicted?

3. Your response doesn't actually address the prediction. Also, Clojure, Erlang, blah blah.

4. Just hasn't happened.

5. See above.

6. And Twitter and 'a new internet community hangout will appear' in 5 years is the most solid bet you can make on the internet.

7. It happened to be 5 years out or under. Oh well.

8. Nobody, statistically, pays Google for anything. Other than adwords.

9. Straight out wrong.

I think that easily qualifies for 'wrong on most of them'.
The part about 20s in where he demonstrates dragging multiple slides looks excruciating. This is "we barely got something to work so we could check it off," not "elegant."
I'm surprised to see that I'm getting a negative response to this comment. Would someone care to explain what makes it so controversial?
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For understanding money, you might try reading Murray Rothbard's "What has government done to our money?", available for free in both written and audio at mises.org.
Lots of coverage of this and related material recently. Here are some earlier submissions, not all of which cover the same ground, but which are related. There may be more, I've found these partly by hand and may have missed some.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1086446

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084520

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081341

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071073
I agree with Mr. Nee that police officers "are entitled to the same rights as every citizen" because they, simply, are.

I believe any individual should be allowed to record anything they please. But I also believe the distribution should be controlled by those who can be identified in the recording.

The biggest deciding factor in this case should be if the recording was interfering with keeping the peace or not. If it's a personal issue, then the Officers were acting in a personal capacity and they were abusing their power. They should handle the situation the same way I would if someone were recording me.

If I reported to the Police that someone was unlawfully recording me, what do you think they would do?
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Well said - I would argue that what is at stake here is far more immediate than any of the 'fights' mentioned above. User choice in the examples above refer to service use. In a war for the social web, what is at stake is the way user identity is represented online.
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3. Not really. What is rising in popularity is making multi threaded programming easier. I'm thinking about STM and lock free structures.
You don't have the right to control any video/photo recording of yourself that's done in a public place. All you can do is cover your face and walk away.

EDIT: the person recording only needs your permission if the photo or video is going to be used to promote goods or services.
Reminds me of Chris Messina's talk “Identity is the Platform”.

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/video-of-my-talk-ident...
What would be the implications of combining surfing history and bookmarking -- outside the "privacy" concern. If I noticed that you visited page X lots of times should it be considered bookmark worthy?
Hasn't ArsTechnica operated in such a fashion for it's entire history?
In summary, he nailed it as far as where the the wind is blowing but was wrong on timing; on all accounts except the last one. This is no bad feat as nailing both the direction and timing is nearly impossible.

Compare with, for instance, Bill Gates, who has been claiming that speech recognition as a primary means to control computers is just five years away, for over twenty-five years now.
That wss my thought exactly. Of course, that would be very un-Apple like, but perhaps 3rd parties will release various ergonomic enhancements such as this.
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Yes but - it's still true (for me at least), that XHTML is far easier to construct automatically. Mostly due to the tag-closing behaviour.

I don't spend all day writing HTML, so it's not at the forefront of my mind which tags are self-closing and which ones aren't. Is it "<br>" or "<br/>"? And really, why would I care? And ever more really, how much of that behaviour can I be bothered putting into automatically-produced output, rather than just simply putting the "/" everywhere?

If I cheat and serve up XHTML-like tags under a text/html mimetype, then nothing and nobody cares (as far as I can tell) except for the W3 validator.
The important thing to remember when grading predictions is that most predictions are about trends. So the important thing isn't whether "The Year of MobilePhone Computing" was 2008 or 2009 or 2010, the important thing is that it was still a few years off from 2004. It's the same thing as the "Singularity" guy's predictions. When you're predicting things 6 months in advance, you should get graded on a lot harder of a curve than predicting things 6 years in advance or 16 years in advance.
Sure. But the experiment is about taking a company culture that is built on face to face contact (and moving around a bunch of printed pages) and taking it virtual. Should be interesting to see what happens.
I have two difficulties with the abstract (not having read the entire paper.) First is while I don't dispute the claim that the heart cells are capable of turing-machine activities (conveniently forgetting the infinite tape as noted by cjg), it isn't evident that the heart's activities are limited to what the turning machine can compute.

The second thing that i am wondering about is that the heart, like any physical oscillator, is a dynamic system, and as such, is chaotic. This seems to be an important question regarding the modeling. Chaos theory won't tell you that your heart won't stop, in fact, it won't give you any comfort that it will be immune to slight changes in its environment, say with increased salt content.

And the turing-complete claim about the game of life is clearly for grids that have no bounds. I suspect that there are not an infinite number of states that the heart and all its cells can encompass. Thus the heart is not a Turing machine.

So I am not seeing any added value of this Turing result that isn't already better described by Chaos theory.
One of the saddest things about America at this point in history is how so many people are ignorant and damn proud of it.
It's not very secret if you're holding up a cell phone.

And if that is decidedly secret, then nobody should care as long as the unlawful audio is removed before distribution.

I use the term unlawful audio because only the personally identifying information should need to be censored/removed.