skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a copy of, or at least heavily-based on: http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/05538...

How do I know? I've read it. It's a good, light-hearted, book although there may be better on the subject.
Another take: http://geekdrop.com/content/facebook-spybot-how-to-remove
It is bad in a totally different way than his other patently silly ones (become a tour guide in NZ) though because it's not obvious what's wrong with it unless you know how IP is attributed and the marginal utility of working in your employer's office vs a starbucks down the street is not worth risking all of your IP.

The risks with going to NZ and becoming a tour guide are much more obvious.

That is why that option is particularly pernicious.
Yeah, all in all we are definitely getting a good deal.
I know lot’s of really dumb geeks that are into sci-fi because they can’t function in society. I also know several highly intelligent people who simply don’t want to function in society and happen to like sci-fi. It can be difficult for outsiders to separate these groups, especially because the less intelligent geeks try and mask their faults. It's something like the Bulb problem where it's hard to tell if someone is actually highly intelligent or just acts differently than you do.

There is still a shared context among the geek community. I think Equilibrium was the most emotionally moving movie I have ever seen yet I have little interest in seeing it again, others just like the gun play and will watch it constantly. But, such distinctions are only relevant once you have seen the movie. Stepping back a few years and Blade Runner has the same dichotomy of people who like and or obsess over the movie and those who simply reacted strongly to it. (Now add Dune, Enders Game, Stranger in a Strange Land, etc.)

PS: The number of times you have seen each of the Star Wars films is probably a good metric for this. (Not to insult Star Wars.)
I wonder if these differences in communication help to explain why some people are better than others at learning new languages (written/spoken, not programming languages).

If nothing else, I can use it as an excuse to explain why I have so much more difficulty learning to understand spoken Norwegian compared to being able to read it. :)
I'm with you. Although I feel sure (tr: believe without specific evidence) that this will be a well-made device and cause even more people to throw money in Apple's direction, and I like tablets a lot, I'd prefer something built around a more open platform. I can live without the cellular connectivity.

Obviously Windows and Linux desktop metaphors are inappropriate for a device of this size (the main reason they haven't taken off in this space previously), but to my mind the front end is only a shell anyway, no?

This isn't meant to rain on Apple's parade, though. Rather, kudos to them for pushing into new territory and bringing the future that extra step closer.
One option you have is to look at portfolio companies for the major VC's to see if they are looking for developers and are tackling problems that are interesting to you. Some examples:

http://jobs.sequoiacap.com/
http://www.usvp.com/
http://jobs.kpcb.com/

This would get your foot in the door of the "world of start-ups" without taking the plunge of doing your own thing.
Mobile me needs some information from your phone before it can be remotely activated. But I'm sure this is to insulate Apple from crazy stalker boy/girlfriends and the havoc that would ensue.
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PDFCreator is a fine piece of software. Hardly anything is better, imo.
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Ask HN: Please review my app spillbound.com
Hi everyone,

I just built this thing that lets you "Share secrets that launch and expire." --

I've been thinking about this thing for a while, finally prototyped it (totally rough around the edges!) and just put it online. What I personally find exciting is that these secrets/messages are not available right away and they disappear and never come back, so timing becomes critical...

I would like to learn about your reaction to it. What works, what doesn't, what you like, what you hate about it.

Technically it's nothing fancy really, what I think could become interesting is the dynamic (if at all) that the right timing introduces in such a context.

Anyways, to get started, this is a little secret I would like to share with ya: http://spillbound.com/secrets/26

Thank you for your feedback!

Alexis
Siver's writing is so good you only need to read the title to benefit.
This one seems to be reloading more reliably than Gizmodo's:

http://live.gdgt.com/2010/01/27/live-apple-come-see-our-late...
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More often then not people looking at porn are at home so it works perfectly for that industry.
Most platforms that at least support OpenGL/ES seem to be at least similar enough conceptually that you should just need different optimised render paths, not a totally different engine. Different render paths are something you'll need anyway, regardless of API, unless you're targeting exactly one machine.

You'll probably struggle more with the difference in RAM and CPU power available to the app than the different GPUs. In the simplest case you just use bigger textures and higher-poly models on better hardware if they all implement GL ES. Compare this to, say, the Nintendo DS, which is different from any other GPU I've ever worked with; writing a cross-platform engine that supports it is tricky. There isn't a GL ES implementation for it as far as I'm aware.
I assumed the use of "mundanes" was a reference to Piers Anthony's Xanth novels.
Or you can use boost::unordered_set right now, in any compiler, whether it supports tr1 or not.
I'll add one more:

* Can you support Twitter OAuth, or FB Connect, OpenID, clickpass .. ?

We're all tired of signing up for yet another site. Usually if it's a rather prominent site whose value I already understand and I know the value will be useful to me, I don't mind biting the bullet and registering. I forget where I read this, but there was this speaker once who said "Customers don't just pay with money. They pay with their time and angst" (paraphrased).

For more obscure sites I don't want to register because I don't know what they'll do with my email address, plus mentally I am trying to figure out if my annoyance of having to sign up for yet another site is going to actually pay dividends back to me at all. I don't want to waste my time.

Basically the registration part is barrier to entry for me, and I think it will help if you remove that friction from the sign up process.

Kind of like http://CofounderGoogleDocs.com - the Google Docs spreadsheet for co-founders I posted here on HN recently. Many people jumped in because there was no friction. You just go to the page, and start adding your info (or start grabbing info)
The funniest part about all of this is I have yet to purchase an apple device (I run Ubuntu myself), but I can't not watch these presentations.

It would be great if there were other tech companies with such well presented products and ideas that really made you say 'wow'.
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Chris Overcash, Your use of the English language is reprehensible. I never expected to read such repulsive language on HN.
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Were it not for the nofollows on the links, I'd guess this was a shill just to get a link on a site that would later be turned into an all-ads site, or a PDF affiliate site. There seem to be quite a few PDF software affiliate programs if you Google "PDF affiliate."
Tech Crunch Crashes under Apple Load?
Did anyone else get this...
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When visiting Techcrunch at 10am today?
Has it? The only evidence I've seen has been that image search screenshot for [tianamen square] with all the tanks. But that query was never censored in the first place, because it's a misspelling that only Westerners make. [tiananmen square] or the equivalent Chinese query is mostly pictures of the square itself.
Wow this is why I love HN, Thanks!
Sounds an awful lot like the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11 and the buildup to the Iraq war...
What is involved with the 10%? Is it a PHP/MySQL? Sounds risky to me mainly from a time point of view. Can you give us a bit more info on why the backend is such a great deal? I mean you can easily get that with open source such as Drupal.
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You might find this list helpful: http://markan.net/agilinks.html
Really? The iPad? Sounds like something my wife would send me to the store for...I'm just sayin' :-)
The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad
First thoughts:

- Looks like a giant iPod touch

- I'm not convinced the email is phenomenal
Finally. The 'pad' from Star Trek is here. I'm psyched. Now if only they'd be cheap enough for me to leave half a dozen of them laying around.
I am not sure of the relevance of this submission. I would think Google would have a Canadian version of the site previously so this would not be new. Did they not? Is there something in particular we should be seeing on the link?
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No Flash, a web site with a missing plugin icon was demonstrated probably on purpose.
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Jobs is truly wonderful salesman, all right. He knows how to play a crowd like a violin.
Speaking as a Brit, to me, `iPad' sounds like how an American might pronounce `iPod'.
They will be.
I too am married, and maybe it's that exposure to pure, loving honesty about myself that has opened my eyes to how rarely people really give you good feedback about yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUH9eXy18

People from Boston have had ipaaads for years.
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Lessons Learned from Java EE is an interesting and provoking presentation by Rod Johnson.
With HTML5 this can all go away with <a ping=url ...>. :-)
This thing seems targeted directly @ the college marketplace so far like the original imac.

I love my iphone but between email and browsing so far the larger size doesn't matter to me . . .

Reserving judgement for rest of presentation though. . .
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The Apple iPad
That almost sounds like a dare. :-)
There's definitely some ambiguity there with the names being so similar. Especially, as you pointed out, when considering accents.
That's my point entirely. Predictions that an "<insert-any-company> tablet is going to take over the world" are woefully self-interested and fail to consider what "the world" actually means. I'm sure from a technology standpoint, it will be a neat device, but it's only going to matter to technophiles, and even then, only for novelty.
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The author misses the point. The problem isn't the corn but rather the quantity of corn that's fed to cows. There weren't antibiotics to give cows to deal with the side effects of too much corn so they didn't give it to them in the quantities they do today.

I'm fine with giving cows some corn because well it does taste better but their feed really shouldn't contain so much corn. Most of the small ranchers I know give their cows some corn but not a huge amount or anything.
$40 for a ~300 page book seems like a bit much. Why is this book worth 3 or 4 others combined? (no sarcasm, serious question.)
Justin.tv is showing the iPad debut live
It helps that the engadget live bloggers are fawning idiots.
The engadget live feed is pathetic. They're saying "Wow" to any regular feature that doesn't really have anything impressive. What is their agenda here?
Their agenda is to make their readers excited.
Such simplifications are always nice. After reading the explanations for the hand signs I don't know anymore where I live.
Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
That's fine. The reviews should be on your site, not some other site.

Maybe mimic Amazon's review system? Get all the reviews from iTunes and augment them by letting people say helpful/not helpful, and then showing the most helpful highest rated review and the most helpful lowest rated review, etc.

Basically create a landing page for each app and then optimize the )(*!@# out of it.

The reason I think this is the right approach in your case (vs. Google) is because your universe is very contained. There's a single, canonical database of applications you need to index (for iPhone apps). Google has to index the whole web, so creating verticalized sub-products is hard to do without knowing what's important and what isn't.

Google is obviously moving in that direction, with maps, reviews, music, video, etc.

This might be different for Android vs. iPhone. I'm not very familiar with the Android ecosystem.
I'm not a lawyer, but I disagree with both of your points. This isn't a business (you won't be collecting taxes, for instance) and I don't think you'd be responsible for someone getting hurt. Also, power tools and other dangerous equipment is only category here. Baby/toddler equipment, camping gear, sporting goods, etc. are all too expensive if you just need to borrow something for a day or a week.
The product itself is done, it just needs the payment facilitation added. It's built in Ruby on Rails and has a very robust templating system/api.
Agreed, but isn't that the essence of liveblogging? 'Meh' doesn't retain readers, and I presume they want Apple to advertise with them. I'll allow them some wows for the performance, battery life etc.
...By the 24th century..
I like design but it's not something that I would personaly use. Great work!
Interesting detail:
Runs custom Apple silicon, the "A4" chip at 1Ghz. Seems pretty capable based on the demo. But then, everything seems capable in a controlled demo.
No - it's literally their own chip. They bought a chip company a couple years ago..

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/23/apple-buys-chip-p-a-semi-...

Now they got the whole world in their hands. Probably not worth it to get in the mucky memory market.
That's pretty cool, thanks for explaining.
but not from apple they wont.
> Up until fairly recently you had to hack around with text files in shell in order to set up simple things like multiple monitors

I still have that problem in 9.10 - same goes for getting wireless to work

> That sort of stuff got a lot better with version 8, and with the current version, 9.10 i'd say that using Ubuntu is as easy as using windows

I completely disagree, until there's better device support it'll still be a pain to use compared to windows. More importantly installing software is still a pain, in my opinion, compared to Windows. Sure it works fine if you try to install from Canonical's list of supported software, but as soon as you want to install anything else (example Firefox 3.6 see the recent thread on HN) it's a usability nightmare.

Unfortunately I think this type of thinking that it's good enough and already surpasses windows is partially what leads to so little progress being made on this front. How does the old saying go? "The first step in solving a problem is admitting that you have one"
No camera.. no video chat... more time to save up for Ipad 2.0!
I'm not convinced anything is phenomenal on this. Between my desktop, macbook and iPhone, I can't think of any use cases for it. Is it just a bigger, faster iPhone? I don't get it.
Apple iPad. Are you underwhelmed?
Apple iPad. Are you underwhelmed?
Pretty much zero wow so far. It's a big ipod touch.
Cliff's notes: a tiny piece of electronics can glitch the PS3 memory bus, causing memory writes to fail (far below the level of the instruction set architecture). If you can force writes to fail, you break fundamental assumptions that conventional code depends on; in this case, you turn a deallocation into a no-op, leaving you with a reference to stale memory --- roughly a use-after-free bug (like what just killed IE with Aurora).
Apple does social engineering, not marketing
I know, I know. Apple does indeed plan their marketing efforts carefully, with a lethal precision, starting with this so called "leak", which we all know is staged like a wrestling match. Then accumulating in to tons of speculations among mainstream media. Up until the very last hours before a new carefully crafted Apple product gets launched. Shush! He is about to talk. He, Steve Jobs, is gonna talk about the new product that is gonna shape the industry for the coming years.

When writing this, it's just 3 minutes left before Apple launches the product. Maybe it was because Alan Kay said it was gonna rule the world, maybe it was because I know apple will deliver every time (in terms of quality), I dunno. All I know, is that I am NOT gonna buy the device for any foreseeable future, yet I'm gonna watch it's product presentation.

Other (hardware)-companies need to learn from Apple, and it does not involve making a cheap copy of their products.

Steve Jobs once said that Apple don't do marketing. And in a sense he is kind of right, because what they do, could be considered social engineering. They let the innovators, the techies be their salesmen and disciples. They herd will then follow autonomously.
App compatibility with the smaller models is pretty smart though. I didn't expect anything other than a giant iPhone, but that's enough to make it desirable for a great many people.
Waiting on that wow moment, still basically just a huge ipod touch . . .
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I don't know about others, but iPod launch was a truly jaw-dropping event. iPad, for me at least, is nothing more than a yawn.
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It's possible that touch makes a huge difference. People who never held an iPhone don't understand what's so special about touch, but pretty much all new owners spend first two days not being able to let go of the device poking it with a finger.
Curious how google streetview is working w/o flash?
from the makers of the iphone and itouch, we proudly present to you the revolutionary new "giant itouch"
Normally I don't get excited about apple products. I wasn't super excited about this one either, but I was looking forward to seeing apple 'fix' tablets- that is to say, fix text entry and make a tablet computer more viable.

Tablets can keep up with regular computers on everything, except text entry. Writing with a stylus is still imperfect, and so are touchscreen keyboards. Long emails, command prompt usage, and essays are frustrating without a physical keyboard. Apple is good at simplifying UI and interaction, so wouldn't they be the one to tackle this problem?

And what do you know, they didn't even try. This isn't a tablet. It's just an big iphone with more focus on media.
Well, remember that they bought PA Semiconductor last year, so they might well be developing their own stuff now...

EDIT: Ahem, it's 2010 now, so that would be two years ago ;)
Would anyone be interested in organizing a meetup with a panel of tech marketers to answer questions or share case-studies with hackers? Could be a fun event. Let me know and I'll dredge up some talent from my home here in the ad industry...
I don't know much about chips, but:

It's supposed to be an ARM chip. Motorola did PPC, no?
Motorola doesn't do semiconductors anymore, they spun that off to Freescale.

Also, Apple bought chipmakers PA Semi a few years ago. The Apple A4 CPU is probably built by the former PA Semi.
Its exactly what we should have expected. A giant iPod Touch, nothing revolutionary, but still cool. I'm sure I won't be able to afford it, but maybe one day...
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So, it's an iPod Touch. A large one. The iPod touch is a min-iPad and this is the max-iPad.
There are about 500 tech sites and they all have the 'iPad' on their front page, and they all have more or less exactly the same stuff to say about it.
iPad commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs&feature=player_embedded
IPhone SDK supports iPad development
Works on Android without flash
So far, I think ill stick to getting a netbook, just because im not a fan of depending on the iPhone OS on anything but a phone, and even that is a deal breaker for me. Maybe if it came with Mac OS
My first startup was a CMS product in 1998. At the time, it was a terrific space, and we did well.

But by 2002, the space was filled, because CMS software just isn't that difficult to write. The factor that made it a viable business in 1998 was that most sites were still static HTML. A DB-driven site with dynamic content was a relatively new concept, so writing software to make it happen was a great opportunity.

But it seems like EVERY site is now dynamic content.

Even if your product really is the best ever, it is 2010. You are 12 years too late. I cannot recommend this business line at this point in time.
Google streetview also works on the iphone. Drop a pin and touch the little man.
I took a look at Chapter 6 (about thumbs) and noticed something that I get a very different signal from. There's a picture of a woman with her hands in her pockets with the thumbs exposed. The writer suggests this is a sign of authority, but to me it feels either like a flirty signal or a sign of readiness or expectancy (which obviously can go hand in hand). It kind of gives me the same vibe as the 'face platter', but in this case the woman is showing off her figure instead of her face.
Between my desktop, macbook and iPhone...
What, no e-ink? I was really hoping Apple would take on the Kindle, etc so we could get some critical mass in that market. Instead we get a glorified laptop. Bummer.
Nice and locked down with only Apple approved apps. Do not want.
"Inline video clips" Aha! This should come to the iPhone too - finally! This will make it possible to create some fantastic products!
Same here. But, considering how fast Steve Jobs went through the updates and basic description of the product (and pretty much covering all the rumors and leaks), I think there is time (and hope) for a "one more thing" that can blow our minds.

So far, I wouldn't call what they showed "magical and revolutionary".

edit: still following the pace of the event, it really feels to me like there will be more. A little slow-down of the presentation, Steve Jobs will sum up a little bit what they showed and then, starts smiling and say "but there's one more thing that makes the iPad revolutionary". So far, it's really too fast. It would be an unusual rhythm for an Apple keynote. if it kept going like this until the end. (wishful thinking?)

2nd edit: I guess not… not that the product is not super cool and impressive. It's just that I feel it's harder to justify when you have an iPhone and a laptop already. The Kindle is threatened though.
Well... I run Ubuntu too, but since the Apple II days, Apple has been leading the way.

Remember current Macs are more or less white NeXT boxes.
FYI live streaming of event . . .

http://www.ustream.tv/
Are you sure? I'm a former iPhone owner, and the touch was main of it disadvantages.

The touch keyboard is awfully slow. It is a very big step backwards, comparing to Blackberry or Android G1. And, I know, it sells under "don't expect that much it's a phone, you can live with it".

As for the tablet, a portable machine - something between a laptop, and phone, I expect an option to use the actual keyboard. Otherwise, it's going to be utterly passive machine.

Other disadvantages were, for instance, display which makes iPhone unsuitable for browsing the web, even in a bed. This is the lesson fully learned by Apple, though.
Why is writing with a stylus imperfect... I have been using a tablet for a year and used it exclusively for note taking during my last semester in school last year... I was on Vista and onenote and it worked out great! The handwriting recognition was good and the reaction time of the one note page was as good as a real pen and paper.

With a pure tablet like ipad (no physical keyboard) I would expect the stylus to be more useful especially for tasks like writing emails.