skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers and cars have different usages in different situations. The iPad is clearly not developed for development work or tinkering, it is a step above a smart phone and intended to be used in a similar way. Just like the Toyota Camry is clearly not built for racing, it is made for transportation and intended to be used for people that will never open the hood.

Both have a target audience that really doesn't need to be confused with extra bells and whistles that are going to add complexity for the average person that does not want to use the device for more than the intended purpose.

I really don't understand why everyone is angry that the iPad takes another step away from tradition of computing to help make computers more accessible to a broader audience, and requires less knowledge of how the computer works (which many people would be happy about, maybe not you or I, but people that do not have careers or hobbies tinkering with computers)
Odd, I'm using Chrome 5.0.366.0 on my Macbook. The demo works fine.
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All it does is load your site in an iFrame...it does nothing with user agents or zoom. Basically the same thing as resizing your browser.
And what is the problem with that?
I was inspired by this when I created a filter-able program for the CHI Conference this year. Hoping to bring this feature to all future conference programs for CHI.

http://nirmalpatel.com/chiProgram/program.html
3D, new codecs, new DRMs, etc. If you truly want a future-proof box it would have to be ridiculously overpowered (like the PS3 was in 2006) and thus expensive, but few people are willing to pay now for option value that will be unlocked later.
http://udemy.com/ actually has a lot more courses than academic earth does.
They need the money badly for what exactly ?

Wikileaks could run on a shoestring budget and be just as effective as they are today. A simple rss feed with the magnet links of available torrents would be all it takes.
I would love them to make two changes for 4: OTA updates and syncing to mobileme or a USB hard drive. If they did those two changes, it would open up more people to be able to use and iPad.
I made a longer comment down the page about this. In short: Wikileaks is low on money right now, and my guess is that all the hoopla around this presentation is a marketing tactic to get noticed and get donations. I don't like it either, but I expect they will get back on mission if they become financially stable again.
Two things. First, it seems that the HC has thus far been doing a pretty good job selecting candidates. People seem very happy with how Google is doing overall, and it's widely thought that the engineers there are on the whole fairly good at their jobs. Maybe things would be better if decisions could be made by individuals throughout the company. But it also seems like this could lead to more bad apples, and eventually to organizations full of them, like the MSN org at Microsoft. Being on a committee makes it psychologically easier to reject candidates, which is probably a desired effect.

Also, who do you propose might make the decision if not a committee? Managers certainly can't be allowed to, at least not unilaterally, because they have all kinds of conflicts of interest that might encourage them to hire subpar people.

I don't think "committees are universally bad" is a widely held view. For example, almost all companies are led, ultimately, by a committee (a board). They have their uses. Maybe hiring is one of them.

Now, about cult followings. One of the guys in that story, Bogdan, is famous for terse denials of various sorts of requests that might be sent his way (e.g. for more bandwidth, for a certain service in a datacenter, etc.). This was true to the extent that for a long time googlers on the kernel team maintained an extension at /proc/bogdan. When cat'd, it would print things like:

No.
No.
We're already doing that.
No.
Absolutely not.
"My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS. But applications were constantly asking me for permission to use my location. This seems like an oversight: if you don't have a location sensor, don't ask! Even the built-in Map app asked me for information that it could not possibly have."

Uh, ever hear of Skyhook?
Hilarious!!!!
"There is no sign up for Dribbble at this time. Membership is entirely driven by our users - all members of Dribbble have been drafted (invited) by other members."

So it's not really the same as Twitter, it's more of an elite collection of select designers showing you pretty stuff. Similar to the way design blogs and their aggregators work now, but this gives it more of an "exclusive, members-only" feel.

That said, there's some good design work to be seen. If you're a designer, you should have most of these designers' feeds in your reader of choice already (I'm already following most of the designers I saw listed).
As someone who only knows how to drive an automatic (never had access to a manual to learn), some of the problems he's describing sound like he hasn't made the necessary adjustments in driving style that an automatic apparently requires (at least for the acceleration--I'm willing to concede that he has a point for the engine braking). This gets a bit into "intelligent" user interfaces, but I feel like I have a pretty good model of how the automatic gearbox responds to increased foot pressure, so I don't have any problem getting up to speed when changing lanes.
What's new? This is just a rewritten version of one side of the Emacs history. Some parts of that are remembered 'slightly' different by other involved persons.

Example: 'He took his revenge by going on a two year coding binge to reproduce every advance that was made by the team of hackers at Symbolics, and match it feature for feature on behalf of Greenblatt and LMI.'

That's a myth.

http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about...

Weinreb::

'Next, he says: “After a while, I came to the conclusion that it would be best if I didn’t even look at their code. When they made a beta announcement that gave the release notes, I would see what the features were and then implement them. By the time they had a real release, I did too.” First of all, he really was looking at the Symbolics code; we caught him doing it several times. But secondly, even if he hadn’t, it’s a whole lot easier to copy what someone else has already designed than to design it yourself. What he copied were incremental improvements: a new editor command here, a new Lisp utility there. This was a very small fraction of the software development being done at Symbolics.'

But worse, again Weinreb:

'And while I’m setting the record straight, the original (TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance.'
Disappointing but unsurprising that people are focusing on the car details in an article about the irrelevancy of car analogies.

The meat is at the end:

I’m not going to say that Apple are right to lock others out of defining how touch computing is going to work, but they can, and I think their belief is that they can do it better if they don’t have fight off contradictory ideas in the meantime.
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I believe Lamborghini has announced that they'll no longer be offering manuals.

http://www.gtspirit.com/2010/03/30/lamborghini-manual-transm...
In Linux, running threads that are shown in 'top' (with thread mode 'H' on) to be in state 'R' or 'D' are counted in the load average. You'll definitely see this in programs with a ton of threads, like MySQL or the Java JVM.

If you're not in thread mode in top, this is why you will sometimes see a process consuming > 100% CPU usage.
I'm not a designer, but I have to create basically all the website designs for work, plus my own projects and I found the website-tag rss feed pretty inspiring. Only takes a few minutes out of your day but gives you some cool ideas and insight.

http://dribbble.com/tags/website.rss
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I doubt this very much. People have been leaving digg in droves. Jay was fully vested and probably bored.
I posted a nearly duplicate comment (now deleted). My iPad has successfully located me in the Maps application in several different places. It's actually quite accurate.
Kevin's been effectively absent for a year and now is charging in with a mind to rework the imminent V4 release of Digg. Sounds like a risky move; hope it works out for them.

Edit: To clarify, I'm hoping that this move doesn't signal a second-system mindset settling in at Digg HQ.
The Linux kernel also checks to see if there are any tasks in a short-term sleep state called TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. If there are, they are also included in the load average sample.

Shown in top as being in the 'D' state.
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Oh, and who would provide the tracker? Who would make sure there were always seeders? Who would protect the servers when every person they've ever pissed off comes knocking?

Wikileaks has managed to protect all their sources and repel all the legal assaults on their publishing. And they're not playing in the kiddie pool with those RIAA clowns. The intelligence arm of just about every major country wants them extinguished, not to mention a bunch of multinational companies and some very pissed-off warlords.

This "Wikileaks costs too much" discourse on HN is ridiculous. $600,000 a year for unprecedented whistleblowing, provided to the entire world, against all comers, is a fucking bargain.
The writer seems to think that an app shouldn't be priced higher than $0.99 unless it is a life-changer.

I'm guessing that this stems from his mistaken belief that "Developers could make millions with a well designed, useful, or entertaining app"

I wonder if every $4 he spends on other things is a life-changer for him :)
Quibbling over the delayed launch of Digg V4. Ahhh, the perils of waterfall release cycles.
I like how they changed "one of us is going to leave the company" to "one of us has to leave" and still treat it like it's a direct quote.
Wrong!

No, only Apple approved OEMs are allowed to make spare parts and provider service.

You can make your parts or use "unapproved" parts by jail breaking, doing which you break your warranty.
After experiencing a couple of movies and recently HDTV in 3D, I'd say 3D is here to stay. It just makes for a better experience. In essence, 3D technology is piggybacking on our highly evolved visual processing ability.

The added cost for TV's isn't that much, mainly for the LCD shutter glasses. With the combined push of the display and content providers it should become mainstream within the next couple of years.
Pretty soon you'll be able to find all of these in an easy to work through sequence, so that you won't have to track PDFs, the course calender, video etc. Instead, it'll be like Lesson 1 - step 1: video, step 2: transcript, step 3: discussion board (much like HN where best responses get voted up/karma points etc.); step 4: problems, step 5: solutions, step 6: discussion board, step 7: test (to assess knowledge) etc. We actually have over 120 courses built out on NIXTY now and probably 20-30 of those are EE/CS courses.

I've actually been trying to figure out how to bring up the idea of a p2p CS university/program. Kind of like a HN University. The goal would be for people to be able to easily take courses and interact w/others around all things CS.

One of the beautiful things about computer science is it seems less and less dependent upon degrees as predictors of success. We believe that this is where most fields will go in the future. People pointing to references from trusted others, work examples etc. will prove to be better predictors than degrees. Consequently, we are investing a fair amount towards using the CS curriculum as a type of pilot project.

If you are passionate about this kind of thing and want to help out, shoot me an email at glen at nixty dot com. (p.s. really trying not to make this sound like an infomercial for NIXTY. just trying to be clear about what we are doing and our plans. thanks).
See also my comments in an earlier submission of this item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1242192
"Kevin Rose back in the drivers seat" would have worked well. It seems to me that's a pretty rare occurrence, with a founder taking the reigns again after several years. Good for Digg!
So, when was the last time you drove the manual transmission?
I thought this was a pretty interesting article but I don't really buy the analog vs digital watch comparison. Mostly I don't agree that turning the crown is only 9.5 bits. There are 720 possible combinations and you have to move through on average 180 of them to get to the right time (assuming you can move forwards and backwards). Each tick of the crown is a movement, just as each button press is. In that case the analog watch drops to just over 5% efficiency.
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"I've read at least 100 books in the past year. Seriously. Probably more like 150 to 200," a user named Phyllis wrote on the literary blog Trashionista.

At what level of attention can you read 100, let alone 200, books in a year, and what books? Not, I think, long books like _Man Without Qualities_, and not dense books like that or like _Portrait of a Lady_, to mention only novels. Could it be that at least some men are more realistic about their literary consumption--well, more realistic than Phyllis?
It's a measurement of the CPU as a performance bottleneck. Other bottlenecks (e.g. your disk(s)) aren't covered.

I'm afraid that's incorrect. Any process blocked on disk i/o is considered as part of the load average.
Finally let me talk about the device itself. It's heavy. I mean, surprisingly heavy. The specs say that it is 1.5lbs, which sounded very light on paper. For the first few minutes, I liked the heft; I felt that I was holding a solid, well-crafted item in my hands. But then I started trying to figuring out ways to type. ...After a day of heavy usage, I felt a little sore.

Wow. This guy really needs to get some exercise.
"The meat is at the end."

Preceded by a lot of car talk, which you focus on. Put the meat up front. Besides, the meat of the article is about the irrelevancy of car analogies, but if people don't agree, they will discuss that portion. You can't discuss it and not expect people to respond.
By "they" I hope you are referring to Michael Arrington, who likes to call himself a "journalist".

He is good at manufacturing news and stroking drama when there is none.
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> Oh, and who would provide the tracker?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Trackerless_...

Hence the magnet links.

> Who would make sure there were always seeders?

The same people that would find it important enough that this information is distributed. I would certainly dedicate a bunch of bandwidth for something like this.

> Who would protect the servers when every person they've ever pissed off comes knocking?

The Streisand effect is partial protection here, if you don't want your stuff to be even wider disseminated 'coming knocking' (by which you probably mean lawsuits) would actually increase the stature of the project. As long as you do not accuse without hard proof.

But simply spreading the information would be the first move in a game of whack-a-mole that can only be lost.

The 'RIAA' clowns are some of the best funded legal teams and they don't seem to be making much headway. A much more serious threat is the threat of overt violence, but that's not something where money will help.

Agreed that the service that wikileaks provides is a bargain, but they could be going about their fundraising a lot better than they do. Most of it seems to be along the lines of 'pay up or the data gets it'. And literally holding stuff hostage and pretend-shut-downs is not the right way to make the point.

That just plays in to the hands of the people that would like to see wikileaks disappear.
I'm not convinced that remote login requires this. RDP and VNC can keep a session available when disconnected, and screen is available over SSH.
To make honorable rules of engagement is to obscure the horrific violation of humanity that war is.

This is the whole point of rules of engagement. Making war a lesser--or "more obscure", if that is your semantic preference--violation of humanity is the goal, the whole idea, the very point of these rules. We live in a time where we can easily afford not to have total war--not that it was ever a good idea in the first place.

You think as long as we're killing people, it's OK to carpet bomb schools? As long as you're doing bad, might as well not be selective about it? Might as well go for the big enchilada? Maximize body count, like a video game? You're an idiot of the first class. Not just because of the foolishness of the idea, nor because of the lazy faux-intellectual rationalization therefor, but because of how easily you justify the obliteration of lives and nations when such a thing is not even close to necessary. Thank God that America abandoned your mindset after Vietnam; too bad they didn't abandon it earlier.
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I really doubt that. Kevin and Jay sold stock and gave up control, and I'd say the company is firmly in control of the VCs. Kevin makes a better figurehead.
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I'm a big fan of 'sar' as well. It's nice that it can also show you i/o wait for the sampled period. I also love vmstat, as you can use it to see everything that is happening with the system sampled every second if you like. The first two columns will show you the number of processes in the run queue as well as number of processes blocked on i/o.
I debated voting this down, but since it was already at -2 I didn't. And only the last sentence saved it.

It seems that you're entirely too willing to throw out morals for expediency. If you really believed that the killing is bad, you ought to not enlist, or if you're conscripted, get conscientious objector status to avoid being in a place where you'd need to kill. And the same goes for anyone else who has moral qualms about what's going on there.

If you go there willingly, knowing what's going on, you can't use the exigencies of the situation as an excuse, as they're perfectly foreseeable.
Anyone reaping Ireland's 12.5% corporate tax?
It looks like Ireland, with a 12.5% corporate tax, beats "the competition" by a long shot [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/56/33717459.xls]. Has anyone set up remotely a company there for that reason? If so, would you recommend any sites such as http://www.formit.ie? Are local governments happy campers as long as you pay taxes on your dividends in your country of residence?
I didn't mean the resulting action might not take a moment, I meant the actual movement of the switch.
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Interesting - yesterday morning, I found myself suggesting the opposite: http://twitter.com/cscotta/status/11604836074

I'd counter that this emerging pricing structure suggests developers are finally charging fair prices for their software, and that this is a good thing.

I don't mean to be a curmudgeon, but I'd suggest that the move towards "free/freemium" across the web has helped to breed a sense of entitlement in users while devaluing the work of interface design and software development. To see a user buy an app for 99¢ on which a dev team spent months, then pan it with a one-star review complaining that it doesn't have a feature s/he dreamed up is ludicrous.

Geometry Wars from Activision is $9.99. After watching a demo on YouTube and finding it as good as (or better than) the Xbox version, I snapped it up and couldn't be happier.

I'm glad to see that developers are charging what their worth. This is good for software, and good for users.
One of the cool things about twitter is that you don't need headlines, thumbnails, or previews. A tweet is one complete thought.

If you're going to arbitrarily restrict the images to a small size, it doesn't make sense to then use a slightly smaller size as a preview and put each "large" on its own page. If you want to enforce simplicity, make full use of the simplicity.
Former Marine here.

Outdated or not, that's the law.

The destruction of the Van was clearly murder. If I had done that, a Marine Corps Colonel would have had his boot so far up my ass after seeing that video, that there would not be much left of me to execute.

You know what the correct response is from a CO in a situation where a van arrives to pick up bodies? Hint: It's never 'Roger. Engage.'

Your guys told you that a van arrived to pick up bodies, and they ask for permission to engage. Correct response: 'Do they have any weapons?' or 'Negative.'

Now sometimes there is so much trust between a CO and a particular guy, that clarifying information will not be asked for. This is rare, but it may have been the case here. Which still calls that CO's ability to judge character into question.

Bottom line. In the Marine Corps, there would have DEFINITELY been consequences for this action. (the destruction of the van).

Also, I noticed that the individual who said they 'had no idea how the children were hurt' was a Major. Now I know there is no way a Marine Corps Officer would tell a lie like that. They would just not say anything. You lose a lot of respect for Army Officers after seeing something like that.
No Flash. No Video Camera. Lame.

Reminds you of anything? Yeah, it's Slashdot!
I counsel people to consider $15-45 per app.

You need a lot fewer buyers at that point to pay for your development.

Remember, the reason apple can sell iWork at $20 is because they get money off of every sale of the ipad
100% agree that they are improperly quoting.

But the article pretty well supports their title if they removed the quotes.
My money's on some sort of limited form of multitasking, where apps can launch background processes or something like that.

In other words, exactly the way Android already does it? :-)
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The answer is to create some kind of a balance

I agree that if the world economy is going to attain anything like health, such a balance is going to have to be achieved.

The question is what kind of balance is it going to be?
Task managers may have been needed for WinMo (I don't know, I've never had a WinMo phone), but they are absolutely not needed in Android.
I think it's also possible to play a background stream in Safari.
I've always thought iPhone apps have become too cheap and are grossly underpriced. iPad apps will take longer and require more skill to make, they should be more expensive. and at an average price of ~$5, that's not much at all.

I wish iPad app prices would stay at this level but they will almost certainly become diluted down to the iPhone levels (remember a year ago iPhone apps were ~$5).
The car analogy is cute, but the "afterward" at the end of the article is the most relevant part. I think he's dead on with his analysis of what Apple is doing in that regard. I give Apple points for taking a bold step, although in my opinion it's in the wrong direction. But we do need more boldness in the realm of computer user interfaces, the standard mac/win/*nix interface (and let's face it they're really all the same), is a relic of the last millennium and needs a reboot.
Get the apple case. It's very well made and thought out. For one thing, it increases friction, so typing on your lap is a whole lot more comfortable. I can type full speed this way. Doing it now.