skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't think it would work too well for boardroom presos - unless there is an attachment/wireless connector for a projector (which you'd guess is likely eventually). But for one-on-one presos, or for showing things to a very small group (2 people maybe) it would make a lot of sense. ie it's an intimate presentationn tool.
I don't see what possible motivation Apple would have to make the web experience as close to native as possible. They don't get a cut of sales on native apps, and they can't control the content, style or functions to the same extent - are these issues not important to Apple? Seems they are from how they act about app approval.
A little bit of both.
Speaking as another globalized ex-IT worker teaching English in China...

There were 2 points raised by Google...

(1) requiring google.cn results to be censored. This doesn't affect me, I just use google.com

(2) increased censorship over the past year, e.g. blocked sites, including blogger and all blogspot pages, all google groups subpages, and of course youtube.

This affects me!

Using proxies on blogspot doesn't help because the firewall detects the actual html content. Free vpn connect addresses are also very quickly blocked.

Google services seem to have been singled out here. Just seems like domestic industry protection.
Starting off on a tangent, Windows is also proprietary. (MS just licensed off used of Windows)

Going back to the subject, before Steve came back Apple tried the MS game where they licensed everything about the Mac (from hardware to software). This strategy failed miserably; most likely because they were already too late.

Fast forwarding to today, Steve is not the problem. He is the main reason Apple is wildly successful today. If he didn't return and revive Apple with the products under his watch, Apple would most likely be gone. Saying Apple is not successful is like saying BMW isn't successful just because it doesn't sell as many cars as either Ford or GM.
The sales guys at my day job are going to have them within a week of release here, I guarantee you. They're not pestering local businesses off the street, they're showing up at the university we've done business with for a decade and soliciting opinions from seven decisionmakers in four departments over the course of the day, no three in the same room. Rather than waste the first 10 minutes of their meeting getting their laptops booted up and projectors sorted, they can just flip open the saved mockup and say "Is this what you had in mind? Oh, by the by, I've got something new to show you. Have you ever considered getting the university a ..."
> I'll tell you why. because Apple's number one priority is the user experience. You need that kind of control if you want the best possible user experience.

If Apple applied their logic to the Universe (or at least Earth) we would all be living in an episode of Leave it to Beaver to 'improve the user experience.' What if you don't want to live in a Leave it to Beaver universe? Too bad.
I don't think the opportunity is lost, it's just that none of the big companies are taking advantage of it. Honestly, I think that's because they think it's too hard. Microsoft and Apple have been trying for decades at this point to make a computer that's open, easy to use for everyone, never crashes, etc. The open source community has been trying too. I don't see anyone as having succeeded there. It's not for lacking of wanting to succeed, or for a lack of trying, it's just a really hard problem, and by locking things down they can create things that work much more predictably and reliably.

I don't think the OLPC is a counter-example; it solves some issues in virtue of having a standardized hardware platform, and they've tried to do away with the file system (which sort of works and sort of doesn't), but I don't think they've completely solved all the other problems around versioning and installation and removal and viruses and third-party devices that need their own drivers, etc. I don't know a ton about it, so it's entirely possible there's something else innovative there that I'm missing. I also would argue that they haven't done it in a device that an average consumer would really want. They done all sorts of innovative things that I think are great, but I don't think they've solved those fundamental issues in a general way.

As for the moral obligation standpoint . . . I haven't read Zittrain's book, so I can't fully debate that argument. From my perspective, roughly, you have a moral obligation not to do X if doing X infringes on someone else's rights without their consent. So to say it's unethical to create a device like the iPad you'd have to argue that people who don't buy the iPad are directly harmed by it somehow, and that just seems like a tough argument to make. I think the effect of something like the iPad on the future of computers, the internet, society as a whole, etc. is so hard to predict that I don't think you can fairly say that someone or some company has a moral obligation one way or the other. Maybe those devices will open up computing to people that currently couldn't use those devices, making their lives better. Maybe it will enable doctors to carry around a tablet that helps them avoid mistakes, saving lives. Maybe it will help small-time developers make more money selling their software. Or maybe it will kill innovation and put us at the mercy of an increasingly-paranoid government and law-enforcement community or put our information and privacy firmly in the hands of large corporations. It's so hard to say which way things will go that I just don't think you can say it's unethical.
I exercise to get better sleep and not to get more stuff done. A half hour of jogging and I'm out cold.
Yeah, the cold feet things is a bummer. I bought some Injinji socks (that Vibram sells), and it fixed the problem. I'm a barefoot runner anyhow, so Vibrams were a natural fit (pun not-intended).
I bought a pair of KSO's around July of '09 to go hiking. I've enjoyed it, but you have to be more aware of where you step as some rocks do, in fact, hurt. Also, getting things in between your toes can be an issue. I don't really find the former to be much of an issue. Being more observant of my surroundings isn't a bad thing to me. The latter can be an issue, but it's also related the former.

Overall, I'm pleased. I don't have any intention of going back to more traditional shoes.
e.g. Malcolm Gladwell
I'm not buying it.

Agreed, Apple is certainly trying to close things down, but there's sufficient competition in the space that I don't see the "frightening future".

If pads take off now, there'll be a decent Android GoogPad, WinMo ZunePad, with Amazon selling no-DRM media, etc. and you can decide if you want a slightly less sexy design in exchange for device functionality/flexibility.
I don't doubt that landing on the balls of your feet can cause less stress, but the heel striking example is almost doing a lunge on every step which isn't how most people run.
I can see the ease of use argument, and that Apple products certainly do well at that. But, thinking on a longer time line, isn't that target audience shrinking. What is the life expectancy of the pre-computer literate population? How big is this audience now? I'm just asking. I have no idea.

On the other hand, a much larger audience would be the vast unwashed masses in the third world who use cell phones to access the internet. The sales volumes are higher, while the price point is lower... I wonder if Apple would go there, or would they leave that market to others.
This hasn't been the case for the recent thesixtyone redesign. Hundreds of dedicated users (users who actually spent money) and artists have left and are more than likely never going back.
I'm mixed on this. But it does explain a weird "Google for X, it's on the first page," "No, it's not!" incident at work that resulted in a 5 minute team Googlefest.
There is support for a 1024 x 768 VGA adapter, though the intimate angle probably wins out regardless.
Did you read to the end? It's possible, with pure HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, to solve these problems. Apple has, and we don't need them to release "PastryKit" for us to get the same powers.
I was ready to buy one for my girlfriend - I kind of promised her one already before it was presented. She wasn't all that keen on a new "computer" for her, and my selling pitch for iPad to her was "you can run your farm on farmville on it" ... do I need to continue?
Barefoot Ted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnizzgzyzu8

Most of his videos are relevant.
Cool. Thanks for the info that they designed other architectures. I didn't know that. I guess we'll find out soon enough!
I could only stomach the first 10 pages, and quit. But that little peak certainly made me think of socialism.

And I don't see how socialism is looking out for the little guy, either. To look out for individuals you need a liberal (in the classical sense) philosophy of individual liberty. Socialism is built on a philosophy of collectivism, doing what's best for the community as a whole ("the needs of the many exceed the needs of the few, or the one"). The rhetoric about helping the little guy is just what monsters like Lenin and Mao find it easiest to use to hoodwink the masses.
My first advice for any perceived SEO issue: Take a deep breath. You're probably seeing random variation. (Incidentally, I don't know what time zone you are in relative to your users, but my first thought would be "A sharp drop that lasts two days and then abruptly reverses, hmm, was either of those days Saturday?" And indeed, it looks like it was.)
Tox (Tomcat, Oracle, & XML)
An excellent question and one I should have prepared an answer for earlier, sorry it took me so long to reply!

We're really targeting two different markets with the common thread being Flash but two very different uses of it. In some cases you could force the relevant data streams into GA but you're working against the system and yourself from the very start - gaforflash is not the same as ga for flash games, which doesn't really exist and has no community of developers to help you figure it out.

Google Analytics is fantastic at what it's designed to do, which is track a site and with gaforflash pieces of Flash on a site. There are a few key reasons why that's not a good match for casual games:

1) GA is from the ground up designed to presume the people are coming to you, and it's the opposite with the casual game business, our games go to 100s or 1000s of different websites. Straight away you lose a lot of the functionality that makes GA great because it just isn't applicable / usable.

2) Events don't transfer directly to the structure of games, in general as a concept they do and especially compared to our custom events, but when you start digging into per-level and tracking multiple streams of data and multiple values on those streams it becomes complicated and difficult to interpret the results and even to figure out just how you're actually able to track these things.

To put it in perspective, if I quit on level 1 is the category quit and the action level 1, or vice versa, or both? If I collected 30% of the coins then the problem gets bigger - category level 1, action collected, value 30%? Or category collected, action level 1, value 30%, or category collected 30%, action level, value 1? These are all the right answer, together, but now you're tripling the requests you're sending back to Google and creating so many events that you start jeopardizing the ability to interpret what's going on.

The other issue with the complexity of GA is most of the time you only get one chance at getting this stuff right - and there's a lot you need to get right otherwise the data's useless - because after your game's being distributed you can't easily push changes out to all the sites your game will be on.

3) The gaforflash api is heavy - 160 kilobytes - which is an expensive addition in terms of filesize and especially performance, both of which are critical in casual games where we might already be cramming a ton of work into a 30-times-a-second loop that already doesn't run well on whatever office/college/school computer the player's using.
The Vibrams give me the willies, too, so I actually used to order custom moccasins from a local boot factory until Feelmax came out with their shoe (I still wear the moccasins in the winter.)

There have been durability issues with them on tarmac as they were originally meant for trail/sand/dirt/grass use, but the newest iterations have remedied this a bit too.

http://feelmax.com
My thinking is that the Apple apps will represent the "top tier" pricing, as they do in the desktop world. iWork on the desktop is 79$, pretty high up their compared to most indie apps. Also, I believe the iWork apps represent exactly this kind of "high value" application: the videos look pretty complex and flashy. Thus by selling the iPad version for less than half that, it is my belief that indie devs will take a cue to sell for lower.

This is of course simply speculation.
I'm sure color accuracy and marketing have very little to do with it. If they could have gone with the cheaper LCD they would have, but it would have meant limited viewing angle, which would not have been acceptable.
Probably a fair amount more than that, as there will be a group of people who drift from one job interview to the next, not getting hired at any strong rate anywhere.
The inability to change their products is directly tied to the restrictions in the problem space that let them make the defaults great. You're right, you can't change them. Which means you can't screw it up. Most people are not tech-savy enough to handle the choices, so instead of giving people something mediocre and saying it can be customized, Apple makes something great that is locked down. For most people, that's perfect. For those it isn't good enough for, they can get something else.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the size specs are wrong? I would expect something way more flat than 14cm.
You can? I thought Farmville needed Flash.

EDIT -- Didn't realise I was just completing your thought for you. Sorry.
A lot of people will buy one used, which doesn't add anything to Apple's bottom line. Although you could argue that Apple products' relatively high resale value drives some initial sales...
It would be cool if somebody could edit together a 20/30 minute version that showed all the action plus time for a few replays and breaks. This would also be useful be done for Baseball and Cricket. I wonder if it would be exciting or if the continuous action would just be too much to handle.
I, too, am a unique snowflake. Unique among 52,301.

But here's a surprise. My UserAgent string is for the version of Firefox distributed three weeks ago as a security patch to Ubuntu Linux 9.10. One in 45.01 browsers has that exact rev. of Firefox.

So over 2% of EFF visitors are running this exact version of Firefox and Ubuntu Linux? That's much more popular than expected.
My (simple) app was reviewed in two business days. I submitted it Saturday night, and it was out of review by Tuesday.
Is it my imagination, or does this article suddenly stop just before getting to the meat of its argument?
Impressive idea for fingerprinting a user, especially along the font/plugin vector.

Looking at just Java plugins, and the number of releases, you could also in theory age a browser, on how long it's been operational on how far back in versions of a plugin the browser maintains.
It doesn't matter how open HTML5 itself is. Going "to the cloud" is still a step backward for openness. I'd much rather be stuck with .doc files than have everything stored on Google Docs and transmitted using open Web standards. Openness is more than just file formats. Moving to the cloud is just as big a step back, if not more, than the App Store.
I upmodded you because no one is countering your argument, and I don't think you're entirely misguided. The US has stagnated like crazy when it comes to space. I don't know if it's necessarily our fake wars going on. I think it's because people (the general populous) does not care. If they cared I'm sure we could just print even more bogus cash and pay for it.
and as I understood iPad doesn't have Flash support, right? So when I told her that, she said (was watching screens over my shoulder) "but he showed facebook" - referring to the facebook app. And this, my friends, is your typical user.

At least she got an "ugly duckling" farmville mug. I'd tell you I bought myself one too, but then I'd lose my street cred - so I wont tell you.
While normal people talk to other people, geeks generate sociolinguistic expressions to communicate with all the kinds of information processing entities, possibly cyborgs, robots, or something. If the communicative pattern of normal people is human-centered, that of geeks is (over-)generalized to all intelligent beings. Yes, I'm overgeneralizing here.
Thinking of it, I'm surprised that they haven't made more moves in that direction yet.

Can you think of anyone you know who would be better off with an Iphone like OS for their primary machine? Streamlined & controlled app installation. No file system access. No virtual desktop. No desktop at all.

I know several. The reality is that most people still feel awkward with computers. They have to ask for help. They qualify sentences with "I don't know computers." It's not just about what they can do (they can usually get their work done), it's about how that feels. It feels crap.

I seriously think that if you put an iMac sized iphone in front of them with a Word app and such, they would feel a lot better with it. They wouldn't need to ask for help. They wouldn't feel like they don't understand. They would be able to get their work done just as well. In fact, an iPad with 3g & a keyboard dock is almost there. Maybe it is there.

Why should Apple want the world of computing to look like this? They are good at that world.
package that includes the dock and keyboard and maybe even speakers

There is a dock with a built in keyboard, and there is a plain dock. The iPad also supports Apple wireless keyboards, has a built in speaker, and both docks have audio jacks.

Also, you can buy iWork for it, so yes, may as well be a consumer computer. Don't expect XCode or Terminal apps though.
Mathematicians never complain that "this crusty-ass math is over thirty years old!" Or writers: "OMG, English is really old. Can't I use something newer like Esperanto?"
I read this link expecting the "gas-powered truck" to be powered by natural gas, and for it to be a modern phenomenon, not a petroleum-powered truck killing magazines through bookstores.
I was wondering what Samsung(current manufacture of the 3GS's A8 processor) was thinking during the announcement. With the iPad using in-house silicon I will bet the next iphone will as well. This is going to hurt any future ARM manufacturer that Apple might have used.
> I can attest that there is an adjustment period to strengthen your ankles and calf muscles.

My recommendation would actually be to start by toe-stepping through your daily activities (whether with barefoot shoes, socks or whatever) two weeks or so before going all-out running. Starts the process of strengthening the muscles and, importantly, the ligaments around the ankle and in the foot.

Toe-stepping should be maintained thereafter, too. It always surprises me that there are people who do barefoot running but revert to heel-stepping when walking. On the other extreme, some people do not put their heels down when standing still, which should also be avoided. Move on the toes, rest on the heel.
Software is mathematics: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111151305785
By the time you've read the button, moved the mouse over to it, clicked it, waited for the result to be returned, and verified the accuracy of the result, you could have just typed it yourself.
Any way to hook it up to a projector and use it to control a presentation there?

Speaking of which, I think I remember an app for iPhone or Android that would let you do presentations like that in a slightly roundabout way. You would upload your presentation to a webapp and then to give it, point a browser to some URL. Then you could use your phone to control the slideshow.

Anyone else remember what I'm talking about? I'm fairly certain I saw this and am not making it up.
Just this comment alone has made it worth posting here, I didn't even think of that heh.
Keep in mind that T-Mobile's 3G frequencies are the 'standard' ones internationally. Though, IIRC Telus (Canada) and maybe Rogers (also Canada) share the same non-standard 3G frequency as AT&T.
That's not as clear as it sounds. Most people don't write novels or complex spreadsheets. For short stories and simple spreadsheets, the dock plus a wireless keyboard And iWork Touch might suffice.

My hope that there will always be an open Mac is based on the thought that they need to sell something on which to write apps. Hopefully they keep one of these devices in laptop form factor.
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A little too breathless for my tastes.

Imagine being able to carry all your documents around with you, being able to give a presentation anywhere...

Wait -- don't I already have one of these cool things? Isn't it called a notebook computer? 20 times the memory, bigger/smaller screen, open platform, etc.
I think its important to realize what you miss out on as much as what you get. Had this model of computing existed before the web browser was invented, we may have never gotten a web browser.

Apple has explicitly disallowed any interpreter other than the one built into Safari, simply because it would be impossible to have a web browser without JS. Some would argue that they've severely crippled it by removing Flash, which demonstrates just how far they are willing to go.

Now imagine if the iPad had arrived before the browser. They would have never allowed this browser idea, with this crazy "javascript" thing, on the App Store. There would have been no special exception because it "might change the world". I think we can all agree that the browser was probably one of the most important developments in not just computer history, but human history, even if we had to do it at the cost of those confusing file systems and other side effects of open systems.

The problem with this model, is that we may miss out on the next "browser". The next huge idea that completely changes the world, because we have ONE party that has to decide whether it is profitable for them first.

Its possible to create a great, easy to use system, that is also open. Arguably the web is precisely this. The web is also usable by my grandparents. The web can also eliminate the complexities of the file system (each web app stores its files). But the web is still open.
IPad’s 4:3 Aspect Ratio
to be fair, couple years ago Fusion constantly got better reviews (I have Fusion as well, it looks like Parallels gives discount for Fusion users, I'm going to try it out)
Apple has a history in design, where knowing about the A4 format is not uncommon. Besides, it's not like they could have named the processor Legal, Tabloid or Letter.
Yeah, not too creative
The iPad and publishers: A survey of early reaction