skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commas can be used to indicate a pause in speech. Read it that way and the sentence doesn't necessarily sound incorrect (the obvious purpose being to put emphasis on the word "Now")

I don't see anything wrong with the so-called "12-year-old" line.

The arc doesn't look particularly unsightly to me. It's clearly a personal preference and I can see why you wouldn't like it but your mistake is in assuming everything you dislike is automatically in poor taste.
I would never be able to concentrate with so many things going on in my field of vision. My screen always contains either a fully maximized Emacs window, or a fully maximized Chrome window.
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Shirky wrote, "Expensive bits of video made in complex ways now compete [emphasis mine] with cheap bits made in simple ways. 'Charlie Bit My Finger' was made by amateurs, in one take, with a lousy camera." That's akin to writing in the early 2000s that since movie and TV products like "Blair Witch," "Survivor," and other reality TV programs became so popular, it meant that the public was losing its appetite for video of high production values, and that this was likely to become a permanent trend.

The talk in Edinburgh last year mentioned at the top of Shirky's piece was to UK TV executives. Here's a Reuter's headline about it: "TV executives meet in Edinburgh as ad drought continues." Here's a bit of an article from the Guardian published 2 days ago:

"Analysts double the forecast for television market in 2010

A report says that bullish spending by advertisers has led to the revised predictions for 2010

Bullish spending from TV advertisers has led analysts to more than double the forecast for year-on-year growth in the UK market, with ITV set for a boost of up to 30% in the second quarter."
Short of sabotaging it structurally, there isn't much they could do. Planes can glide if they need to.
I will personally vouch that this is not a hoax. If this is an April Fool's joke, may pg erase all of my karma.

I am playing it at 30 FPS on my MacBook Pro right now. ;)
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Admittedly I never read any of these cost comparisons, but if I were to write one, especially if my own money were on the line, I would sure as hell include maintenance costs and vendor expenses. Otherwise it's like buying a car and not taking into account the cost of fuel.
I don't have anything against the iPad. However, many of the related articles that made it to the front page don't actually provide much content. That bothers me more, but we can only blame ourselves for that.

Regarding the device itself, I think it will be a huge success, but in general I try to avoid having a love/hate relationship with any of my devices.

btw, kudos to Apple for their PR work!
I'm a programmer. I started by writing software closely related to industrial engineering/operations research type systems, but now I just do it generally.

You probably can't apply a course that you took as an undergraduate toward an MS. Double counting like that isn't generally allowed. But hey, if you've already taken those courses, you can spend more time looking into something that interests you and specialize.
Everyone's talking about how they went from right to left but few mention that they also removed the "menu" button from the layout.

That's the one that you can click on to make a window "always on top" or "always on visible workspace". I switched to the old layout to get it back.
Agreed. Not to say there aren't a lot of crap apps in the Android Market, but the same situation seems to exist in the Apple App store as well (iFart anyone?).
What did you change it to? I tried a UA of iPhone but that didn't work on the couple of sites that I viewed.
http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/wiki/BuildingAndRun...

Anyone care to host a game on their server?
Informative. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
The concept is broken, not the implementation.

You need to know what's in your damn namespace.

Edit:

I'm sorry if you expected a more technical readout of what's wrong, but you need to step back and think carefully about what the Zen of Python actually means.

I'm not a dogmatist, I learned to code in C and have since dabbled in many languages. However, I'm a strong believer in, "When in rome, do as Romans do".
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There really should have been a conversation among the team members prior to the VC meeting to discuss each person's relative stake in the company.

There's an old saying, that you never argue with the family in front of outsiders. If word of this gets back to the VC, it will make your team seem weak and indecisive. In fact, the VC shouldn't have been telling you guys how to split the pot...You should have been telling THEM, what the team already agreed to.

That being said, CEO and the CTO should be getting greater equity share than junior developers. At the end of the day, the buck stops with you two. You should be compensated accordingly. Even 25% split across the board doesn't reflect this.
As ableal said, you can right-click on the title bar to get that menu too.
I don't mean it as a criticism, but the hardware design has all that we have come to associate with a typical apple product. The polished aluminium body, the black margins, etc etc including the packaging. Hope the software is not so blatantly inspired too from mac/iPhone OS
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Holly shit, is this real?
Got it.

http://www.onedigitallife.com/2005/08/03/changing-safaris-us...

http://www.labnol.org/tech/ipad-user-agent-string/13230/
You can defer filing your tax forms for 6 months, yes; however, any amounts that you owe must be paid by April 15th. From the link: "Please be aware that an extension of time to file your return does not grant you any extension of time to pay your tax liability."

It is possible to file an application for a payment plan with the IRS. IIRC, you can only do this once every 5 years or so; having done it anytime in the last five years disqualifies you from being eligible for a payment plan. You must also show that you can't actually afford the amount owed. You're able to choose your own payment plan -- $/month for N months -- but the longer you stretch it out, the uglier it gets, due to interest. If you default on the payment plan for any reason, there are some pretty serious fees and other interest added on (so said my CPA).

The big lesson for me here is that there is a 15% self-employment tax for sole proprietors and partnerships, and that it's assessed against your AGI, no matter how low your AGI is. I was confused about this and hadn't bothered to figure out my tax situation ahead of time because I was certain that my AGI would put me below the usual poverty line. But, there is no such thing for those that are self-employed. Oops.

I would have saved myself quite a bit of money if I'd taken care of this earlier last year, rather than waiting until the deadline was too near.
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> I bet they sell dozens of them.

Indeed - this might go down as new textbook case of getting killed because you didn't get to market six months earlier.

Apple announced on January 27th, the rumor mill started picking up serious steam two to three weeks before there. If they'd met their original target of getting it out for '09 holiday season, who knows how many they sell and then get their foot in the door? Makes you think, especially given their internal conflicts. Could they have split the difference instead of going to war, and somehow gotten it out in November? They get it out in November for the holiday season, they do orders of magnitude more sales, and who knows how things turn out.
True, but the fragmentation and lack of a vetting authority has turned it into a morass of poorly-tested, ill-supported apps that rely on assumptions made by their authors based on what few handsets they had available to test (if more than one).

I don't like the way Apple's treated the app store in some cases, but the fact is that the apps that do make it through the gauntlet are better tested and more robust because of it.
I don't really see myself watching much stuff on it, since you can't plug it into a TV

For what it's worth, you can. Apple sells composite and component video adaptors for the iPad.

http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB128LL/B
You simply can't ignore the force with which the iPad will reshape the tech industry for decades to come.

Would you have said the same thing about the Mac in 1984?

Well this is that big of a deal. It's going to reshape the way we interface computers for the foreseeable future so we all better get used to it..

I for one am really excited.. It's nice to have some real leadership in this industry. Where would the tech world be without Apple: HPs, JooJoos and netbooks? Yikes.. that's a world I don't want to live in...
I'll try to write one in the next day or two and post the link to HN (it will be posted on my blog at http://devgrow.com/)
it is actually not that easy to spook yourself ;)
I meant that even if the other applications are hidden, at 1920w you should only maximise if it makes sense, which it rarely does for a browser.
I'm not sure if there's one for the iphone but Swype is pretty excellent for typing on a small touch screen interface. Using it now actually. So good I can even type out emails to clients on the go without taking too much time or typing like a 12 yo.
FWIW, it's real, it's in the iTunes App Store.
(iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8 )
I don't think your citizenship matters, it's where you carry out your business. This is probably more difficult to nail down than you think, e.g. if you advertise to US customers, are you actually doing business in the US?
if Microsoft had that kind of power 20 years ago the web wouldn't exist today

I'd love to say "prove it," but of course that is impossible. :)

It is wise to be skeptical of Apple (or any company), but don't let that blind you to the innovation that's happening right under your nose.
Even though I agree the device is overhyped, I'm very excited about it because real, live end users are excited about it. That includes a lot of people like my parents who aren't tech savvy at all.

As someone striving to develop on the platform, I find it thrilling. People hate their computers. They love their iPhones. I'm hoping this device can deliver something close to the same experience for casual computing.
I thought this was another April Fools', and I was wrong. I've installed and it magically works.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9234/screenshot20100401at23...

Can't believe it.
I disagree. I have a large display and still maximize everything because I don't like having window chrome in the middle of the screen - it's visually distracting. Actually if Apple would let me switch off all window decorations (like I used to on Linux), I'd be happier.
The collapse of complex computer programs
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Here's a good blog post by someone who's been there:
http://makeitbigingames.com/2009/01/one-way-to-divide-your-c...
Hmm, that's another thing in its favor, I guess. I could take it to my girlfriend's house, plug it into her TV, and watch things streamed from Netflix.
See also: The Collapse of Complex Computer Programs, at http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-collapse-of-compl...
One of the biggest reasons I use SimpleDB is because I don't want to admin a database. I just don't have the time to deal. The extra $ I pay for SimpleDB is the value of my time I save, and, frankly, my time is worth more than the SimpleDB premium.
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What exactly was it that you learned that made you a better manager? Being able to judge what's easy and what's a lot of work (especially changes)? E.g. some people think that changing all text to a different font size is a lot of work, so they ask you to only change the text size in X Y and Z, which actually is more work...
Agreed, more or less, but the engineers are referred to as 'our key technical contrbutors' rather than 'junior developers'. OP, are both of you not-so-technical?
Possibly. But then if you are a maker, you might see opportunities. If you are a consumer, maybe not so much, unless you are a particular kind of consumer.
Like it or not it's a big story. It's easy enough to just not read the articles if you're not interested. I ignore a lot of stuff I don't care about on a daily basis. I don't feel like I deserve a merit badge for it.
you might end up paying tax in 2 countries though. I think NZ has some tax agreement with the USA but I'm not sure on the finer details.
Does Alt-Space still open the menu?
Flagging because there's an identical story right above it. It'd just be better not to split the two, I think. :)
thanks, just ordered Rise and Decline of Nations...
Can you say more about this? I'm a big fan (and customer) of Gilt, and I'd love to know where I can read more about this. Thanks for the heads-up.
Well, there's a reason people are paying those huge bucks for GeeTasks :-)
"There’s obviously risk involved with trying to redefine how people structure their databases"

TechCrunch misses the point that Rethink is explicitly not doing this. The MySQL engine is below the SQL parsing layer, so as-is MySQL apps should be able to run against it.
Wasn't Microsoft's official strategy at some point (1993?) to replace the Internet with MSN/Blackbird? (This sounds silly now, but AOL and Prodigy were trying the same thing at the time.) If MS could have blocked Netscape from running on Windows they might have never developed IE (or let it wither as a second-class citizen).
The title is about owning a server but all the points he makes are about owning and managing a whole Data Center by yourself. Of course that complicates matters !

What I don't understand is why wouldn't they take for example collocating their servers in multiple, geographically distributed, Data Centers.

Also, this doesn't need to be black and white. One could use "the cloud" to offload peak traffic/computation but if you have a predictable usage pattern, it becomes economical to also own hardware.

And I think this is the core of the matter: if you have an unpredictable scenario, it's better to rent. And being that startups and new projects are by definition rather volatile, it makes sense not to invest money into hardware. Not to mention that unless the company / project takes off, there is no money to actually buy hardware upfront. There is also no time to manage that hardware.
Lame. How old are you, 12? I find it "interesting" that developers of competing software usually get along fine, but for some reason the users feel the need to attack, flame at and troll at each other.
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It'd be nice if the comparison compared leased hardware as well, pretty sure that's most-relevant for most startups.
I am the lead engineer.
> In the case of the iPhone there's one of the largest mobile operating systems on there.

Still, it's a lot simpler than a desktop computer - fewer parts, no moving ones... Splines' idea makes a lot of sense.
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On 9.10, yes. What do people use that menu for?

Alt+F10 = toggle maximize/restore

Alt+F9 = minimize

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[Direction] = move window to the workspace in that direction

Hmm, Alt+Space then 'T' toggles Always on Top. LSNED
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Man do I regret not funding these guys.
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No. I don't care about gadgets in general, regardless of visual properties.
I'm just stunned and puzzled by this, the best comment in that bug [1] puts it pretty succinctly:

It should be mentioned that the discussion would be much more productive if there was actually an official stance, a wiki documentation, a blog post, or anything* explaining the reasons for the change.*

I only read the first 80 comments , but I can't find anyone who really finds this to be a good change, and there's yet to be a good explanation offered as to why this would improve anything. Quite simply, what problem does this solve?

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/...
I bet you'll find yourself using them a lot more than you used to, particularly when you go to click the leftmost menu bar element.
For better or for worse, big lock icons and green toolbars do help conversions.
April fools?
One thing I like about my bank: I can send them an entirely unencrypted email and ask them to move money from my account to some other account, and they will do it.

It was a pleasant surprise that I could do this; I fully expected it to be somewhere between "Not ever gonna happen" and "You can do this at full moon, but only if you stand on one leg while singing the Canadian national anthem blindfolded and entering a secret string of letters and digits into an Advanced Security System with over 9000 bits of encryption".
They added a video with a little 4 minute mini-review. It looks decent but not really polished. The accelerometer doesn't show the screen turn for example it just goes black and then comes back on reoriented. It also seemed like it was a little unresponsive in that he often had to swipe several times to get the menu up.

I don't know. It doesn't look bad but having seen it in action I'm more determined to wait and see what companies like Asus and HP will be coming out with.
University technology transfer - why so difficult?
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Yeah... ever since the switch to Silverlight, Netflix streaming has been unwatchable even on my fairly up-to-date desktop machine.
I'm less excited about this launch than about any other Apple product (hate the closed platform and lack of ports), but I'll end up buying one because it's got a ton of buzz. Everyone's going to want their site/app customized for the iPad just because they keep hearing about it. Easy sales, it will pay for itself in the first meeting.
As serious as "what would Apple do?" can be considered? ;-)

(device, not packaging)
I discovered this by accident a few months ago, but for the keyboard lovers, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+[Up/Down/Left/Right arrow] will move the current window to the workspace in that direction.
I hardly see it as a rarity. The majority of app developers I know (myself included) have had apps rejected. It isn't just porn these days - it is language that apple views as derogatory, things that apple views as solicitation, etc.
I think Avatar, and other popular films like it, make the best counterpoint to this article.

It seems obvious to me that as more and more users find more content online, there will be a "thinning of the herd". Some shows and networks will simply fail to find a way to adapt to the new market; others will survive, or even thrive. It's not really happening yet because traditional television viewership still eclipses its online counterparts, but it's coming.

Anybody could have downloaded and watched Avatar while it was still in theaters; yet, people paid to see it because it offered a unique in-theater experience. Other movies get expensively produced only to get meager box office results. They don't offer a modern theater experience, and customers aren't motivated to do anything other than download it or wait for the DVD. There must be at least a few entertainment executives that realize this, and it's likely to affect what they're willing to produce.
> what problem does this solve?

The problem of some UI designer not having anything to do, like as not.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is not a comment dependent on the date :-)
The internet is nearly useless every April 1st. It'd be annoying if it wasn't so damn entertaining.
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I knew this had to happen back when I first saw the mockup screenshots. I am totally happy with the new window controls now. It only took me a week or so to get used to window controls being on the left when I switched from primarily Windows to primarily Mac OS X. People will get used to it eventually.
Perhaps my remark was a bit snide but I was not attacking or flaming anyone.

It's not like I called the rails team assholes or said rails sucks. I dont think either is the case - Rails pays my bills right now and I love it, but after playing with Padrino for 2 weeks all I can say is that my Rails days are numbered.

These guys really nailed everything - speed, cleanliness and common sense. Superior routing, mountable apps done right and a killer admin app out the box are just a few added perks. Top it off with a DSL that is far more Rubyish than Rails (and source code that is MUCH easier to read) and what's not to love?

Besides, a little friendly competition is GOOD for our community.

Take the proverbial chill pill mate
And yet there's still no Linux support? At this point, I can watch streaming movies on every device I own except my computer.
-- BEGIN RANT -- I'm with you on this one. It's receiving far too much hype. It's a glorified iphone with a big screen and no phone capabilities. I really can't fathom how there are so many apple fanboys out there. You can get a laptop for $500 with a hell of a lot more functionality and hardware than the iPad. Hell, the laptop doesn't even need you to purchase a boatload of extra accessories just to get basic functionality that comes standard on every laptop. If I told you I would sell you a flat monitor for $500 and you could purchase a separate keyboard, docking station, charger, and USB connector you would call me crazy. Apple just has a knack for hyping people up. This has less to do with the iPad and more to do with people believing the hype. Apple sells hype at a highly inflated rate.

On to the pros: Apple's product designs are highly aesthetic. I can't deny the fact they have some of the sexiest of devices.
depends on who's "everyone"
Why you need to be very careful about what you name your iPhone app
How does/will postabon make money?
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Killing a project now so you can succeed later
Are you saying you interviewed them and passed them over or are you saying this is the type of team that you like to fund?
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To quote the traveler: "The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

It's an odd dystopia the future is preparing for us.
I am so disappointed that this isn't real.
Of course it works on 9.10. We are talking about 10.4.

I use it to move a window to a numbered workspace. The Ctrl-Al-Shift-Arrows moves the windows AND switches the workspace. My use case is restoring my many Chrome browser windows to their proper workspace after restarting.
They've had a few products that were the first to not completely suck UI wise. As a result, they raise the benchmark for all the players. No one wants to use a tablet if the UI requires mouse level accuracy and the ability to right click.
I think it's definitely only you. For example, the guy below spent most of his press coverage talking about the iPad.

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