skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so. Forcing all app downloads through a market where every screen defaults to the 'paid' tab is fantastic for paid app developers.
Seth's Blog: Jumping the gun
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079224

Seth joins the club.
As opposed to spiking a day later?
> In reality, a bankruptcy only lasts 7 years on your credit report and most banks will start lending after merely 2-3 years.

From my understanding, it goes off your credit score but banks can see past bankruptcies forever and it factors into their decisionmaking on whether to lend and what interest rates and terms to offer.

This is what my business banker said to me when I was chatting with him casually - so consider the bias, but he's quite the straightforward and standup guy and we're acquainted a bit outside of the bank. He's not the kind of guy that'd pull my chain (and I didn't have any debt anyways - was just getting a rundown on credit scores). Actually, it was pretty damn illuminating when he told me all of the stuff they have records on - they knew all sorts of information about me that I never gave them.
The real irony here is that Apple could end up accomplishing what ChromeOS was supposed to, better than Google was going to. That would be strange.

That said, Apple's interest isn't in thin clients because once they're too thin, it gets pretty hard to sell you a new one.
- self-centered

- blind to the relative importance of issues

These are also characteristics of children. I note them in myself. I think every human being has these characteristics to some extent, but they are especially prevalent in geeks/nerds.

As a result, if you can overcome them enough, and you have some technical competence, you can be absurdly successful.
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Print pub management is never going to be able to figure out this web thing.

Their egos are too big and they are totally incapable of dragging themselves away from the "Ad Block" business model.

They are never going to be able to see readers as anything but numbers that they deliver to advertisers. I think the whole business will be pretty much gone by 2020 and, in my opinion, all I can say is "Good Riddance".
Morgan Stanley (a different firm, granted), strategically defaulted on some buildings in San Francisco because they were underwater on the mortgages. They stopped paying and gave the buildings back to the loaner.
I'm sure he said 'the tabloid is going to be really terrific' at the end - misspoken, or is that the name of the tablet?
Near the end the author looks towards the future and writing a small compiler. He mentions "Modern compiler implementation in C," and I was aghast. That was one of the worst textbooks I ever had to suffer through.
I don't have firsthand experience using this, but I happened to save the link. It sounds to me like it is what you are asking for:

http://successnexus.com/
Limiting to just files is a good idea, and if we employ our good friend awk it cuts the time down significantly. This one should work for both OSX and Linux.

find . -type f -ls | awk '{print $7}' | cut -c -1 | sort | uniq -c
What baffles me about these cases is the hypocrisy of the position the courts are taking on it. They say that minors aren't able to consent to creating indecent images of themselves; that's a fairly decent position in and of itself. However, they then say that they're committing an adult crime by doing so. You can't have it both ways -- either they're minors or they're adults. If they're minors, they can't legally create these images but they can't be tried as adults for it either; if they're adults, they could be tried for it but there's no crime there. Pick a side and stick with it.
The original series of prototypes was called the SafariPad, and one of the form-factors was similarly Newton-sized. Apparently only good for surfing the web on the toilet.
Are tightly closed environments like this where we want personal computing to go next?

I think it's a bit early for world domination plans, we haven't even seen the device. Also, to put things in perspective; the iPhone, which is considered a huge success, has only grabbed around 14% market share so far. It's not like the competition would just sit and watch...
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the author came back to C after learning to program, and sees quite a bit more in it than he did as a teenager. I had the same experience - I had a lot of fun writing programs as a kid, and taught myself C/C++ * . Still, I didn't learn anything about good coding conventions, programming in-the-large, etc. until a couple years later, when I discovered Linux and Perl (no waiting to compile!!!), and later Python, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, Erlang, Prolog, ...

Nowadays, my first choice is usually a mix of Lua and C, but I've learned a ton from every language along the way. C is useful for many things, but it's probably a terrible first language - until you have a fair amount of experience, there are just too many aspects of it that will bite you in the ass. Pointers are sharp tools, the type system is a joke, etc.

* Quite literally, a mishmash of C and early C++. Hey, I was a kid learning from library books in the early nineties. That's what I think of when people say they program in "C/C++" - a naive mix of C and C++.
Disclosure: I serve as co-counsel in unrelated litigation against Google, Vulcan Golf et al. v. Google et al. I also serve as a consultant to various companies that compete with Google. But I write on my own -- not at the suggestion or request of any client, without approval or payment from any client.

I think the above says pretty much everything. If you're doing sensitive stuff, why even install third party plugins?
I'm pretty sure he meant "looks a lot like the iPhone OS". Most non-tech people cannot differentiate between the look of a desktop and the underlying OS. If it looks and acts like the iPhone, do you really think he's going to be wondering what kernel and low level libraries are actually running?
Smart phones help, but it is very regular for people to argue a point without having any citations to back themselves up. I'm guilty of this too.

What it has lead to is that I will often cede the point for the time being, I will then look up the relevant literature and either bring it up the next time I'm with the person or send them the link. I try to do this even if I'm wrong.

I'm sure it doesn't help me come off as sociable, but I like to contribute to the spread of fact-based discussion which we have so little of these days.
I don't think your genome going public is mostly in danger from nefarious ne'er-do-wells collecting your skin.

But there will be mass data breaches from stolen laptops or social engineering scams at these sequencing/medical record companies. Past experience tells us that the data will not be secured properly. So if you care about it enough, the right solution is a more federated solution where the DNA owner controls the key, like PGP.
The UI looks really good! I think this solves the normal problem with stuff like this.

I have blog comments on the blog on my site, but a very prominent and pretty easy to use Support section. For some reason, people kept using the blog comments as a generic contact form for me to help them with their highly specific problem they're having with the product. I don't use Get Satisfaction or forums for that reason because I don't think many people can really understand anything more complicated than a simple email/contact forum, even when it's made really clear how to use it.
Like if you were separating uranium 235 from 238 and were planning to carry around the 235 suspended in water like you did with the primarily 238 mixture...
I think Dijkstra said, but I can't find it, that computing science is the most fashion-obsessed science.

Oh, and I assert that the quote can't be found.
EA should think "Solid" not "Social"
Kinda like Little League parents yelling to their kid, "Be a hitter, Johnny!" Huh?
I don't see how it's anything other than a net positive, you gain in security and ease of use for consumers.

If you're more hacker minded like this audience is, it's extremely trivial to jailbreak - the distinction being that it is totally independent and not sanctioned by Apple whatsoever. This is an important point.

After working in user support I can totally empathise with Apple's decision to keep the platform closed via the App Store. A large majority of the people buying these phones (ie, normal users - not geeks) are the ones who voluntarily install spyware on their PC's, click yes to every dialog box they see and execute random email attachments without thinking twice. The iPhone by far has the biggest mindshare, and a very hefty market share of any mobile communications device yet, and probably one skewed toward people with a large disposable income. It's constantly connected to the internet, has a connection to the phone network with an unlimited tab conveniently linked to your credit card, knows where you are and even in which direction you're facing. It knows who you talk to, who your contacts are...etc. I could go on. The point is this device and it's associated popularity is a fucking goldmine for the sort of people who write malware.

The App Store and it's uncompromising restriction is the final solution to keeping this cesspool of a software "ecosystem" off the platform.

Even if Apple provided an "Advanced" setting which gains you root access on your device the malware writers would simply instruct the clueless user to enable it, and I KNOW that 99.9% of people would do it without hesitation, for the promise of nothing more than a cheap thrill. It's based on the same psychology as that study where an alarming majority of people would tell you their password for a chocolate bar.

Oooh, kittens!!! cue screaming and convenient lawsuits targeting high-profile Apple when their phone bill arrives with a $50,000 total
PS3 Ring0 Exploit Released
5x8? add a keyboard, and it's very close to the eeePC's dimensions. Differences:

- much lighter (because ARM uses less power, therefore lighter batteries for same battery life; lighter construction in general; and lighter because no keyboard.

- connectivity (3G). This really is an internet appliance.

BUT I really don't think it can work without a keyboard (please make me famous by quoting me if I'm wrong!) Possibly, a large touch-screen keyboard would be workable enough to be useful, even without tactile feedback; but I really think it would be mainly a gimmick.

BTW: I typed on a video-hire kiosk's touchscreen today, and although slow, it was much less frustrating than I expected.
This is not a case of inaccuracy. This is a case of you accusing her of being the problem and her defending herself. How could that not lead to an argument?
The problem is that there is a hell of a lot of general purpose software out there already that's never going to be worth the effort to port to a single device.

The iPhone has some nice apps, but runs nothing important to me in my professional life. And if the new tablet isn't going to be a useful work tool, why would I want it?
I have to disagree: have you seen the money students drop on textbooks lately? The whole market has consolidated and now makes books worthless after only a year or two (hence small secondary market) by releasing new revisions with different exercises in them. Maybe publishing at large doesn't know their business, but the textbook companies are minting money.
C with a decent dynamic language (C + Lua for example) make a better choice, than C++. Or Objective C, or C+Python, C+Perl, C+WhateverElseDynamic.
iSlate photo from Seth Godin
Will Normal Folks Ever Use Twitter?
The iSlate to the Macintosh as the Mac was to the Apple II?
Thought it was worth posting because he has likely seen the real thing and he picked a photo to go with his post so it's likely that photo is closet to the real thing.
Well yeah, at the end I admitted that there are other reasons to do away with the registries.

But the premise that we should get rid of the registries because they're mostly stupid teens that were victims of these stupid laws is just wrong. The solution to that is to stop prosecuting kids with laws never meant to be used on them.
5"x8" doesn't fit in my pocket. I have a paper notebook here on my desk that is 5"x8". I never use it. I have a moleskine that goes with me everywhere. It's harder to write in the moleskine than the larger notebook, but then I don't ever have the larger notebook with me, so it doesn't matter.

If you're making me give up ergonomic input by giving up the desktop, I need to gain portability. That's why netbooks sucked so hard, input sucked and they weren't more portable than my laptop. The on screen and slideout keyboards on the iPhone and Droid are awful, but at least the devices fit in your pocket.

And can we please get over the techy self importance? The iPhone is pretty popular -- amongst geeks and rich people. Most people who have cellphones in general still have the freebie brick or folder that came with their plan. Just because Apple has done something to make a big splash in our pond called the tech industry doesn't mean our pond is large enough to matter to The World.

According to this site (http://www.wirefly.org/news/cell-phone-facts.php), 72% of the US population owns cell phones. I don't know exactly what they mean by that, but if that's 72% of the approximate 300 million population of the US, then that's 216 million cellphone users in the country. According to Wikipedia, Apple has sold 42 million iPhone units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone). That's roughly 20% if you aren't accounting for people who have paid for upgrades to the 3G and 3GS models. This page indicates that 16% of the market owns PDAs in general, lumping the iPhone into the PDA category (http://ticketsdotcom.blogspot.com/2009/09/mobile-trends-amer...). Significant for sure, but not "taking over the world". Why should we expect a device of less utility than a cellphone to do better?
You need a denser UI. I can only see 4 bookmarks on the screen at a time. Raise that to at least 10.

Categories and tags are redundant. Remove categories. I like the automatic tagging, but I may want to manually edit them sometimes.

Link to Twitter.com's profiles and tweets. Re-tweet buttons would make sense.
The Attack on Startup Funding (Reg D): A FAQ
Are tightly closed environments like this where we want personal computing to go next?

YES.

You want a guy like Steve in the driver's seat of how your platform should look, behave, and integrate with the user's daily life. Look at Linux: Its promise is that you can make it do or be anything and what has the open source community produced? Well, there's Ubuntu, a pale imitation of Windows in terms of integration, but by and large the open source community has switched to Mac.

If the iTablet were completely closed hardware-wise, had super-restrictive third-party app development, but still offered books, Wikipedia, and video via an always-on connection, for sale or free download as appropriate, it would still be a freakin' boon to mankind. And with the right restrictions in place it would be something immediately beneficial for every user instead of just a geek toy.
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Applying Occam's razor here would support your conclusion.
> But, I'll always be very strongly in favor of legislation that prevents entities like health insurance companies from using my genome against me.

Would you also want legislation to prevent them from using it in your favor as well? In all likelihood those who can prove they are 'good risks' will find a way to benefit from this.
The vast bulk of high-end smartphones are now either iPhones or iPhone imitators. Everybody else just plays the game -- Apple changes the rules and the playing field.
They could have made an attempt at being original but didn't.
Over the long term, on averga, house prices always rise. People always need places to live.
thanks!

I've now gemified it for use in Rails apps without having to hit a separate site. It emits data URIs at the moment only, so no IE love yet. I had immediate need for it.

http://github.com/xxx/placeholder_image
He used the term 'tabloid' a couple of times. I've been doing a bit of trademark searches the past few days, so I just popped over and did one on the 'tabloid' trademark: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...

Look down at the prosecution history entries. There's a new entry for appointing a new attorney, just filed about a week and a half ago. Could be a coincidence, but then again...
Back in 2000 when ATI leaked information about a product, Apple promptly switched from ATI to nVidia GPUs for iMacs and Power Macs.

Jobs is not one to scorn. I can't imagine the reaction.
The cavalier attitude toward correctness comes from "relevance". Much of the truth you have to share isn't relevant to others. Even to other engineers. Presenting a simplified story is best in most situations, even if it doesn't cover the nuances. If they need to know the details, then it's time to talk.

A few quick illustrations off the top of my head:

* I speak Spanish fluently and was traveling to Honduras with a group of twenty-some other Americans, only one of which had similar competence with the language. They asked me to give them a quick "Intro to Spanish" course. I started with a simplied academic view, "I'll start with some simple vocabulary, some verbs, some conjugations of 1st/2nd/3rd-singular/plural forms to give them an idea of how to talk." I quickly abandoned that, stuck to the "where is the bathroom?" kind of sentences, names of common foods, other words, and a little human-interest history/geography. That approach worked, they could ask for bananas even if their word ordering and conjugation wasn't perfect. They would have been bored to tears after two minutes of a formal language presentation.

* I was working at a startup and a cute phone-sales rep wanted to know more about our product so she could sell it better. She enjoyed biking too. Great, we go on some great bike rides, I try to educate her about our product but went into way too much depth. Her eyes kind of glaze over, I'm really disappointed about her lack of interest in the product. "You really need to know this," I tried to explain. She probably didn't. She just needed the talking bullet points. She wasn't interested the engineering world view of things and I couldn't deal with that. I saw some disturbing rigid tendencies in myself too. The friendly relationship kind of stopped at that point.

* The best support person I've ever worked with was a master at glossing over the truth, in a good way. He'd talk to us engineers, we'd tell him exactly what was going on and how we needed to change a configuration or fix a bug or apply a patch. What he told the customer often had nothing to do with what we'd tell him. And we and the customers really were better for it. Either the explanation was too detailed for the customer to follow it, or would alarm the customer and bring up a whole bunch of questions they really didn't need to be asking. That's wisdom, of a sort, at least.
Look at the max data rate, its so low it is per month
Why, if I may ask?

My memories of that book are mostly positive.
I was kind of surprised that something so trivial required JQuery or Prototype. Really now?
Note: you are allowed to change the laws.

(I wish I could give attribution to this, but I'm likely misquoting and hence can't find it)
Tell HN: Techcrunch WTF
Techcrunch now as a welcome page with a massive advert that you have to skip to read their blog. This is brutal and they are basically doing what the newspapers they dispise are doing. Brutal!
NASA gives up effort to free Mars rover
There's also a bunch of folks in that group (junior to mid-level) who would prefer to only write code and not to do the rest: testing, documenting/commenting, and analyzing...

as if their code is flawless...
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079109
C++: A language for next generation web apps
Agreed. The article is almost pointless. The online edition was meant to be a freebie, while the title makes it sound like the business is failing because of the web version.

Granted, sounds like they're struggling as a whole and wasted a good chunk of cash on the site. But they couldn't have any had any serious exceptions if 75% of their market was going to get it for free.
Why I don't see how the tablet is going to be revolutionary
I'm having trouble thinking of what apps I'd want for the kindle. When I have it, I'm "reading mode" as just want to read my book.

The screen is 16-color greyscale and refreshes slowly (for apps); I'm having trouble thinking of what app would be better on a kindle than an iPhone. The screen size is the only real advantage I see. I'd love to proven wrong, but I just don't see the Kindle store taking off.
Depends on what you mean by "normal"...

However, now that the me-too effect is wearing off, it does seem like its use has become more esoteric and "exclusionary", as the author writes. I myself don't see any use for it but I can see how other can find it entertaining, or maybe even useful.
looks like they're still in beta...

got any others?

thanks
I posted this in the other thread before, but I'm going to repost it here because people still don't seem to understand why the iPhone's restrictions are so important.

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I don't see how it's anything other than a net positive, you gain in security and ease of use for consumers. If you're more hacker minded like this audience is, it's extremely trivial to jailbreak - the distinction being that it is totally independent and not sanctioned by Apple whatsoever. This is an important point.

After working in user support I can totally empathise with Apple's decision to keep the platform closed via the App Store. The vast majority of the people buying these phones (ie, normal users - not geeks) are the ones who voluntarily install spyware on their PC's, click yes to every dialog box they see and execute random email attachments without thinking twice. They don't scrutinise certificate errors in their browser, use PGP, constantly have a bash window or two hanging around - in fact I think a lot of the people who have bought iPhones as fashion accessories would have trouble even changing their wallpaper.

The iPhone undeniably has the biggest mindshare, and a very hefty marketshare slice of any high-end mobile communications device yet, one notably skewed toward people with large disposable incomes.

Remember, it's constantly connected to the internet, has a connection to the phone network (and thus an unlimited tab conveniently linked to your credit card), knows where you are and even in which direction you're facing. It knows who you talk to, who your contacts are...etc. I could go on. The point is this device and it's associated popularity is a fucking GOLDMINE for the kind of people who write malware.

The App Store and it's uncompromising restriction is the final solution to keeping this cesspool of a software "ecosystem" off the platform.

Even if Apple provided an "Advanced" setting which gains you root access on your device the malware writers would simply instruct the clueless user to enable it, and I KNOW that 99.9% of people would do it without hesitation, for the promise of nothing more than a cheap thrill. All the EULA-type warning "this-is-a-bad-idea-and-we're-not-responsible" notifications in the world won't stop them. It's based on the same psychology as that study where an alarming majority of people would tell you their password for a chocolate bar.

Oooh, kittens!!! cue screaming and convenient lawsuits targeting high-profile Apple when their phone bill arrives with a $50,000 total

Yeah, I think we can do without that sort of thing, and Apple certainly doesn't need that kind of unrepairable damage done to their brand perception.

We put up with malware on Windows because like it or not it's the de-facto standard, and consequently most people don't know any better. There is an almost bewildering array of choice when it comes to mobile handsets, and people are likely to go with the one that doesn't have a reputation for involuntarily emptying your bank account.