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You say it runs Windows 7 like that's a good thing. (I'm no Windows fan, but if it ran a regular desktop Linux distro I would feel the same way)

The UI and methods of interaction are what make the iPad different from almost every other tablet released to date. Without an OS tailored for it, a tablet is just a watered down notebook.
The iPad feels it was developed just for me as a tech savvy person.

I have online access to a large number of books (Safari Library subscription) and a large number of journal articles and conference proceedings (ACM Digital Library subscription). I currently only use these resources for short references. I rarely sit down and read something all the way through, because I just don't like reading sitting at my computer.

When my iPad arrives, there will shortly after be a big boost in my productivity, as I will be able to comfortably read the above materials, and much more, on my couch or in bed. (I said "comfortably", which rules out laptops and netbooks).

If all I ever use it for is accessing Safari Library, the ACM Digital Library, and technical documentation on the web, it will be well worth the cost.

But I expect it to end up useful for more as application developers come up to speed. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Omni Group comes up, with for instance. With Omni Outliner and Omni Focus on it, the iPad could become the organizational center of my life.

My prediction is that the app market for the iPad is going to be reminiscent of the app market for the iPhone--full of creative apps that do amazing things that most of us would not have come anywhere close to predicting.
Where's the software?
Having worked in a data management group at a large financial institution I can say there seemed to be little relation between price and reliability and consistency. There were whole teams devoted to standardizing and checking data for errors and maintaining history, not to mention regenerating datasets whenever historical corrections were made. Pricing was mainly determined by who owned the rights to the data and how much in demand it was.
And this is comment number 17!

(It would be funny if the discussion stopped here. :-D)
Good point, I didn't tough of that! Thanks.
I emailed them 2 days ago regarding their UI library / SDK (they only name it)... I wonder when I'll get an answer.
The expansion of the universe does not violate energy conservation. Energy conservation says \del_b T^ab = 0, where T is the stress-energy tensor. The metric tensor in Einstein's field equations is covariantly constant (\del_b g^ac = 0), and the cosmological constant obviously isn't going anywhere either, so adding the extra term doesn't have any effect with regards to energy conservation. Any reasonable textbook on general relativity will have a proof of this pretty early on.

IANAP.
They are both important but they do different things. Reserve requirements is how you avoid infinite inflation.
I intend to maintain it on my blog by keeping posts coming, and by blogging about other people who "host meetings". So the best thing you can do to keep it going is to host something and let me know!
Yes, there are quite a lot. E.g. Virtualmin, which IIRC had been around for about a year before YC. Or Airbnb, which had been for almost that long.

We don't encourage or discourage it. We care much more about how good companies are than how long they've been working.
What a cool app. I bet the guy who made that is a really swell fellow. (just kidding)

Man, I need to block hacker news so I can finish the damn ipad version already.
Yes, the human behavior where humans pretend they aren't one to elevate themselves above others is amusing.
Right, you beat me to it. Captial requirements are there to prevent banks from going insolvent. Reserve requirements are there to prevent the money supply from spiraling out of control. These are completely different objectives.
Trying to run a site that's exactly Wikipedia/MediaWiki, but inclusive, could be hard -- given the preexistence of Wikipedia, and the difficulties of attracting a critical mass to an almost-the-same project. Such a simple fork might be stuck as a sickly sibling for a long time.

Instead, I believe the inclusionist alternative will have to change some of the core dynamics of Wikipedia -- solving some of the tensions that have motivated deletionism in other ways, while creating out a distinct competitive identity. I have some ideas, which I'll be writing more about soon. But a major theme is: there's plenty of room at the bottom.
I would love the ability to browse available datasets without having to register. And I'd really love to be able to request a dataset without having to register.

Structured datasets are hard, and the hardest part is finding one that updates as time passes and new data is available - how are y'all handling that?
I wonder why they decided to go with Windows 7 rather than Android.
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The patents are cheap now while H.264 is a candidate for adoption as the de-facto standard in HTML5 video. In a few years, once H.264 HTML5 video is ubiquitous, and no one can watch anything online without a H.264 decoder, licenses won't be so cheap.

It is pretty dangerous to allow H.264 to become widespread here. It would represent a serious barrier to entry for upstart browser vendors. This is bad.

We want to invite as much competition as possible. It's true that if you only account for Mozilla, it's not that big of a deal, because at the end of the day they can afford to pay some licensing fees if they have to. It is a big deal for something like Midori or Epiphany or Konqueror or any other such projects because their usability will be strongly diminished by an inability to play online video. This is a bad thing.
Get notifoed when people reply to your comments on Hacker News
You can now get notified on Notifo whenever someone replies to a comment you've made on HN. Just put your Notifo username in the notifo field on your profile.

Note: you may get notified before the reply is actually visible, if the commenter has a nonzero number in the delay field in their profile. So if you don't see the reply, just wait a few minutes.
What about "know thy enemy", assuming that Stallman is fundamentally against making money?
It wouldn't matter. Viacom is a single legal entity. It can't both willingly participate in an act and then sue someone for allowing the act to happen.
"They're one of the majority shares of the browser market last time I looked." (Emphasis mine.)

There can be only one majority share by definition.
Maybe that's how Google breaks in a new datacenter.
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Is that UI (user interface) design? If not, to my knowledge, UX refers to Unices, and wikipedia does not tell anything related else.

So, what is UX?
This is obviously a biased article and should be taken with a large grain of salt when the eighth paragraph states The truth is that Bernanke is making a mess of the U.S. financial system.
Bernanke's proposed mechanism is to make use of the fed's newly-granted power to pay banks interest on their reserves, as incentive to maintain them.

Edit: In other words, print money in order to pay the banks not to print money.
User experience, I believe.
Well, one of the things I don't like about the iPad is that you are limited to the iPad OS, and that it's not a replacement for netbooks (no usb or flash). It's the platform of Apple and nothing else. But, I do agree with you that it's really different from a desktop PC and the iPad is really nice for end users. Like they say, it's the best experience for the stuff the iPad is made for.

However, Windows has multitouch with the newer versions of .NET. You can also run Flash / Flex. I think a Windows alternative would fit enterprises that mostly run on Windows software for paticular uses (which is what I intend to build apps for). However, I got no idea if it work on the exo pc tough.
Was looking exactly for this for a web app that I'm working on. Going to give it a try and see how it goes :-)
Discounting relativistic mass, yes. I'm not sure what the author's specific thoughts on that are; I was only pointing out my view, but your "debt is a hole in the wallet" is actually similar to what I'm proposing. The key is the object doesn't only not exist, it's missing. By the way, whoever upvoted my comment above, good one. It's not easy to wrap your brain around the implication. :)
I heard the device was in development for 10 years. It's probably a historical choice they didn't tought about afterwards.
Ask HN: How do you evaluate a lawyer?
How can you evaluate the skill and ability of a lawyer? Especially in a foreign country where you don't know the language (but the lawyer knows english)? Or if you don't have friends who will be able to give your recommendations. Most lawyers don't have blogs, user reviews or other rating services that you can use to evaluate them with. Things like immigration, business, and other such things.
OTOH, some very good engineers are more interested in the domain than the technology. I work with some really smart people, one of which has been at the company for about 15 years. When you have the opportunity to work in a field that fascinates you, the actual technology you use to implement products becomes a lot less interesting, the business retains the "corporate knowledge" that only exists in people's heads, and the less committed quit.

I wonder if the attitude here is a product of short product lifecycles and rapid gratification. In my industry, a short project is 2-3 years. An average one is 5-7 years from concept to first release.
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Ask HN: Blog options and experiences?
If you have a blog, what are you using as a platform? Is it a good or bad fit? Why is it a good or bad fit for you personally or what do you like/dislike about it? How often do you update? What do you typically talk about? What prompts you to post to it? Of course, a link to the blog would be nice too.

Any thoughts or discussion on the general topic of blogging is welcome.

Thank you!
Actually, inflation is progressive because the rich in general have more in savings than the poor.

But it also punishes behavior that is "good" (though worse for the economy). For 2 people of the same income, if one saves a lot of his money and the other spends most of his, thus getting tangible assets (maybe a nicer house) instead of money, the spender will be a lot less affected by inflation than the one who has a lot of money in savings. (Though if most of his money is in stocks, it should roughly grow with inflation.)
I also heard the problem with the technology was it was very finicky. For example, wet wood would cause it to discharge, which would ruin the blade and I believe damage the machine. Could be wrong though.
Plus, I'm still in a position (being a high school student) where big companies wouldn't even consider hiring me, so it's startups or nothing for now.

I don't think a startup is likely to give you an internship (perhaps even less) than one of the big companies.
You should be able to browse the data that is available without registering by clicking on "Buy Data" in the header. We make people register when they request a dataset because we want to be able to let them know once we've found their data.

We're working on an API that will allow sellers to programmatically refresh their dataset to keep it up-to-date with the source. We're also working on a search and filtering system that ranks datasets based on when they were last updated.
Check your HN account page, there's a new notifo field.
Guys, this is an awesome service. I can see a lot of other startups building on this platform.

Did you guys build push.ly yourselves? If so, the smart thing here is building and marketing a great free little demo app is a great way to get your platform out in front of potential platform customers. Also, it will provide access to some end users, so you can see for yourself what other capabilities the end users are craving. smart stuff.
Why rely on "Wikipedia says"? Why not attribute it to the source Wikipedia uses?
If/when you do have kids, you'll be surprised at the numerous opinions and techniques parents share with you. I know the concept of "crying themselves to sleep" doesn't sit well with me. He's a baby! Seriously, just thinking about him crying without me being able to do anything turns my stomach.

That's a sign I need to go look in on the little guy. Just hope I don't wake him. He needs his sleep. =)
I haven't used this service before, but it's a good idea - thank you.

Will it also work for submissions? I've noticed lately that the threads page is slow, but clicking on 'submissions' via the profile page is crushingly slow. If I'm away for a day or two it can make it difficult to check up on older threads, or find the link to share at some later date.
We'd love to help you get started! If you have any trouble adding your datasets, please send me an email at matt @ datamarketplace.com and I'll make sure they get added asap.
why would someone set the delay?
Ah, OK, I thought that was just a representative sample since there were only five datasets.

I'd recommend you find, package, and sell other datasets that exist out there (Freebase, etc.).

I disagree with the registration requirement - if I want to be updated, make that a opt-in box - but I acknowledge that it's a justifiable product decision.
Yeah xbrowser stopped its updates since 01, will join endlos instead. Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll have to devote some resources towards reaching out to the academic population.
To cool down a 'hot' thread ?

Hot as in flamewar like ?
You're welcome. The only thing I dislike about The Moth is the life experiences related seem to be outside the three sigmas of normal people. But the beauty of The Moth is everyone is unique and yet so same and relatable.
When I was integrating this into HN last night I was thinking: practically every web app is going to want this.
Great strategy to submit a minimal app first.
you don't have to follow it in perfect-realtime, you could totally mimic a human page-turner who flips the page at about the right time.
I do it because I find I often edit comments after posting them. Sometimes I have second thoughts and delete comments after saying something unwise.
Let's also pump a bunch of toxic gas into the atmosphere to block out the sun and stop global warming. What could go wrong!

Oh come on, it's not that bad! You'll be able to enjoy "experiencing nature" for a week when a flood or tornado sweeps through your house. As a nature fan, you'll love it.
That's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :)

Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ?

That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.
It's a great idea ... I bet it ends up just like openid though .... every big company competing to be the provider and hesitant to accept anyone else on their own platforms.
I see the complete flip side. My son is happy, can fall asleep fine on his own, and enjoys playing with his cousins as well as with himself and his toys, all at 15 months, and I'd sooner gouge out my eye then let him cry it out. He's a baby, and I don't see how any parent could sit by and let a child with tears in his eyes sit alone in the dark and ignore him. I'm not one to tell people how to parent their children, so don't take any of the preceding as me passing judgement on you; rather, it's merely my view on it.

However, "parents have different needs" sounds wrong. I'm all for parents still meeting their own needs and their partners, but any parent that can't put the child's needs ahead of their own when needed is neglecting their child. I don't think that's what you mean, mind you. But, I'm sure you're aware of the parents out there who put their needs before their child's without thought or consideration, and that just strikes me as wrong.

As for why I think it bothers parents so much what other parents do when they perceive it as wrong, I think a lot of it has to do with the thinking "If that is what I was doing to my children..." and not liking what would happen.
meh, put it in another tab and click another HN article
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This is an interesting way to provide a useful feature to HN readers and to promote Notifo as a brand.

I can't think of any fields to enter on my profile for any site I use that are also brand names.

Since many HN readers produce web content on their own sites (personal and business blogs, content from their startup's site, etc), will adding this feature to HN create a ripple effect on the web? Pretty awesome way to get traction, IMO.
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yes, built push.ly myself and also the march madness alerts and stock alerts bulit into the notifo site. i was thinking it would be nice to have promotional services to get users straight out of the gate.
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General overview of this type of stuff:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-...
Explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203104
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The problem is that when couple starts to live together even if one of them is close to work, other still has to commute.
Is this possibly an April Fool's story that was released too soon?

Seriously, this is way bad. Without any way of justifying this feeling I have, it just "feels" like the beginning of the end of a financial system with players who have any independence at all, and the beginning of a system with only one player.
In practical terms, a 10% reserve really equates to more like an 8-fold increase. To say that a 0% reserve means that the reserve could expand infinitely is a bit overstating the matter. There are practical limits purely based upon how many times a given loaned dollar can be deposited and re-loaned by a series of banks.

Furthermore, the loans are not made at zero interest. The interest charged in the loan also serves as a break for monetary expansion. Of course, the issue here with a fractional reserve system of ANY kind is that it's impossible for the country to get out of debt without erasing the money supply. Without debt, there is no money.

But the point I am making is that the Fed has had this power since the end of the Bush administration. Bernanke does not need to ask permission. The directors can lower the reserve requirement whenever they wish.
A permission marketing channel in the pocket of your users? Yes, please. It is like lifecycle emails on steroids without the spammed-to-death problem. (Well, not yet anyhow.)

This solves a real, pressing need for many sites: maintaining user engagement after they're off your website. The number of people who register and never come back is depressing -- many of them might be enticed to come back, if you only had a way of getting in touch. That is pure profit for the company, since you've already spent whatever form of resources it took to acquire them as a signup in the first place.
much higher than the (amortized) cost of designing livable neighborhoods near jobs in the first place.

Do you expect to change homes as much as you change jobs? If not, the fact that your home is walking distance from your old job just doesn't seem like a bonus.

And children never leaving their cars or garages? What the hell kind of world is this? Whatever happened to just riding your bike down the street to the library or friend's house?

That's still possible; the world we live in is just one where people are effectively wealthier, so it's no big deal to go to a better library that's 10 miles away, or to be able to stay in touch with friends who've moved across town. It's hard for me to see the expanded possibilities as a bad thing. The kind of world we live in now is better than the world in which kids were limited to whatever was nearby.
Out of curiosity, how long is your delay and have you adjusted it over time? It's rare that I will think of some modification to (or the need to retract) a comment in the first minute or two after submitting it, so the only delay I could really see myself making use of would be 4 or 5 minutes. I'd be interested to see how many people use this, how frequently it comes in handy, and whether or not it's been fine-tuned to fit the way they think.
You say it runs Windows 7 like that's a good thing.

There's actually a lot of very good, very useful Windows software out there. Here's what I have on my tc1100 slate PC:

- Skype
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Kindle for PC
- FBReader
- VLC
- Picasa
- KeePass
- Widcomm Bluetooth
- Dropbox
- Google Earth
- Pencil
- Evernote
- Squeak

Most of what I do, I do through Google Chrome and various web apps but I very much like the ability to install whatever Windows program I want.

I own a new Macbook and just sold a 24" iMac. Still have a PowerPC 15" Aluminum Powerbook. Mac vs. PC is what Noam Chomsky calls "irrational jingoism." It's a marketing manipulation ploy. If you are for Linux because of FOSS philosophy, then good for you. If you are part of marketdroid-created jingoism, then I think that's a waste of time.

Me, I just run useful software on good hardware.

Without an OS tailored for it, a tablet is just a watered down notebook.

Not true at all. Have you actually owned and really used a good slate PC? I can use this thing in situations I can't use a laptop or even a netbook. Just this afternoon I was talking with a coworker on Skype while lounging around and surfing on the couch and we were showing each other our projects with the webcam. The form factor is key, and Windows XP Tablet is brilliantly executed, even if it is designed for propeller-heads and not ordinary mortals. (Styluses are for propeller-heads like me.) It's not an OS tailored for a tablet so much as Windows XP with tablet support features bolted on. It still works well if you are savvy.

I can do everything that the iPad is supposed to be able to do now, with hardware and software from 3 or 4 years ago. Granted, the tc1100's industrial design is phenomenal, which is why this machine has basically attained cult status. But I can also see the cracks in the execution that would have alienated it from the general public. Also, the ecosystem has to be there for the platform to really work.

In the end, I'm bullish on the iPad, which I've preordered.
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Could be a loss leader though. From that first link:

"After your year of free messaging has ended you can buy another year of messaging for a one-time charge of only $29.95."
"It's purposefully architected to make a plugin very unsavory"

I'd like a citation for this please, or at least some synthesis based on some explicit rationale (which is what I expected on the with that em dash, instead of a non-sequitur).
Maybe someone is reviewing a book that they purchased elsewhere? Whose business is it where I purchase (or check out) a book? I don't think erring on the side of privacy is a bad thing.

I was checking a book out of the library yesterday, and saw at the bottom of the screen that I have an overdue charge. I asked the librarian what book the charge was for. She pulled up my account, and then invited me over to her side of the counter, so that I could read what book I checked out. She was avoiding anyone overhearing what my reading habits are. I was pleasantly surprised.