skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Blur vs Oasis, Apple vs Google makes it seem like they are the only boys in town and so they both get all the press. We could be being played here. Neither Blur nor Oasis were bigger than the pop/dance music scenes, and neither Apple nor Google yet threaten Nokia and RIM.
Before taxes.

They are equivalent to a bit under $50k and a bit over $60k.
Apple: iPad will not be released internationally until the end of May
A not ignored nerd is not a nerd.

How about this idea: if such people would not be constantly derided and ignored they may be more socially successful, start spending more time with people with less potential and start lowering their own expectations as a consequence, trading their dreams for the cosiness of mere run-of-the-mill success.
The iPad is unable to do many of the things I normally do on a computer. That's not a bad thing, it's simply out of the scope of the device. We still need "desk" computers.

I'm not excited by Apple spending less resources on OS X, surely they can do both?
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

-- Henry Ford
Wishful thinking? A lot of what he suggests have straightforward implementations as "built-in" features. (Something that looks "built-in" anyhow.)

Perl tried to be pretty much the language he suggests, but it was put together with a poor sense of language design. Ruby tried to correct Perl's mistakes, but also succumbed to the "kitchen sink" mentality. Python tried to correct many earlier mistakes, but while it was more closely integrated with the underlying OS and still managed to be a relatively simple language, it got too tied up in the underlying OS.

Most of what he's talking about could be implemented with Lisp machine or a Smalltalk VM as OS Kernel. The features he wants "built in" could simply be added to the default class library. Perhaps something based on the Erlang VM could satisfy the multi-core part.
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I can't remember seeing a tweet linked as a HN story, but this sentence long domain names get a lot of publicity every now and again.

Successful strategies tend to get copied.
Actually, from talking with the OneSocialWeb [1] and BuddyCloud [2] guys, I understood that Android phones have a really sophisticated "always connected" philosophy. The main CPU can go into deep sleep and the phone still maintains a persistent data connection, waking up the CPU on incoming data. That's for the low-level IP stuff. TCP-over-GSM really sucks your battery.

XMPP doesn't (yet) have a standardized way of filtering data. Using Privacy Lists is a workable hack. Google implemented their own thing (using Protocol Buffers [3] to replace XML-on-the-wire, instead of gzipping as the XSF recommends). Process One has their own system as well for OneTeam [4].

The future ideal is to use SIFT [5], but it is still experimental and as far as I know, only Prosody [6] has partially implemented it.

[1] http://onesocialweb.org/
[2] http://buddycloud.com/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
[4] http://www.process-one.net/en/solutions/oneteam_iphone/
[5] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0273.html
[6] http://prosody.im/
(dammit, how do I embed URLs in the reply?)
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""Go" is just another language written first for the compiler and only secondarily for the programmer --- and stuck in a 70s mindset about the relationship of that
programmer to the (digital) world within which they live and work!"

AKA the New Jersey design approach lives (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html).

Java is interestingly an at least somewhat successful attempt using the MIT approach (as is Clojure on top of its JVM).
Computers are fundamentally different from things like the iPad. The iPad is a console, not a computer. It is heavily restricted in what you can do with it.

Yes, computers are progressing a little more slowly in a sense. This isn't a bad thing. You shouldn't have to buy a new one every two years. But they're still different.
The design bothers me a bit, actually. It feels amateurish.
Blas is the Irish word for 'taste'. A hurley stick develops a 'taste for the ball' in the hands of good player. Supposedly the tough leather ball (sliothar) hitting the soft ash wood creates a sort of sheen over time when done right. The stick becomes tempered. Tom's allegory is that Cpedia has not yet had the time to develop 'a taste for the ball'.
I'm not convinced that this rumor about OSX is true. Has Apple officially said such a thing?

BTW, part of the problem with computers not progressing faster is that the software world is dropping the ball. We're not taking advantage of things like GPGPU, multicore, etc. because we're too busy building me-too whiz-bang webapps.
Wrong assumptions - people that learn new language doesn't immediately forget languages they knew before, nor do they stop using them.

Languages are tools, not religions.
I thought it was a good rant. It's certainly been a while since I read one like that.

Although I do think he's a little too obsessed with one-liners but that could have been hyperbole on his part.
if i search for a query such as 'erlang', can you explain how you do the search - is it by order entered in the database, by rate, etc?

also, nice app!
What if they had a disclosure (maybe until things get "better") at the top in bright bold red that said:

"Cpedia will quite often be wrong or odd. The web is quirky and we're trying to make sense of it. Don't take anything below seriously just yet. Let us know what parts of this article you like, though."

Would that make people criticize them less or give them more slack?
ads and affiliate links...same way you'd make money from most sites.
Opera Mini for iPhone OS: not exactly a good browser
I could not agree more. Business is something you do with stuff, but you have to have stuff to do business about. Business is not something that can be done in a void.

A lot of the fakers and cargo cultists are trying to do business about business to do business... they're not delivering any value because they don't know how.
I mean the human and economic costs.

The costs of fraud because some malware exposed your passwords. Time spent typing in captchas instead of something useful. Software developers spending time securing their code instead of making useful stuff.
Not a surprise. PhoneGap is written in Objective C, and Apple has no beef with Web technologies, otherwise they wouldn't make the UIWebView control available to iPhone developers. Indeed, there are many formatting situations that demand you use it.
before getting to know them.. but then you should.
Assuming constant density, mass scales up cubically (with volume) whereas area scales up squarely. Hence the giant stubby legs.
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I thought 10.6 was basically just like 10.5, and I liked 10.4 enough that I pushed back on upgrading until I had to buy a new machine, whereas I ran out and bought a retail copy of 10.4 to get away from 10.3.

Basically, I agree with the article that progress (or "change", if you don't agree it's progress) has slowed significantly in the OS X line, and so my most recent computer is an Arch Linux box.
Cpedia is the Lorem Ipsum of search engines! Hmmm, a lot of uses suddenly spring to mind...
Move somewhere where it's never 73 and sunny. That way you'll never be confused.
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He sure is a charismatic and handsome fella. He makes for a nice message, however there was no apology.
IPad UK launch pulled back a month
It's plausible he is the owl here.
Evaluating the Future of Online Relationships
I enjoyed this article. I must watch the actual episiode later.
How you know your open source software project is doomed to fail
The simple joys of feline ownership. Cats do have an intellect, like Nora, the original piano playing cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM
sorry, but imho Woz is still treated a lot like nerd :)
Great idea! The company I work at right now is constantly looking for outside developers/freelancers for some small projects and I have often found my self asking how can I get in touch with people on HN for these gigs.

Brilliant idea and I hope to be reaching out to some hackers in the NYC area soon.
Seriously? Go outranks action script? This list is flawed.
Apple can retain its position in the smartphone market by continuing to make the best product. All they'll get from acting like a bully is ill will.

I disagree, I think blocking flash is a good strategy for Apple. They stand to gain a lot and Ill will passes.

If they are able to block the platform and kill it then people will quickly forget if they continue to grow their market share. Apple is not interested in allowing development multiple mobile operating systems easily. Apple sells a platform and they want as many exclusive applications as possible. Exclusive applications retains the value in the handset rather than elsewhere (for example the network). Apple does not the handset to be commodity hardware driving down profits. The applications and their delivery is the unique selling point: hence the advert "there's an app for everything".

The hardware can be emulated.
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US customers are more important?
I understand the sentence, but what I'm trying to understand is why the information removed is (significantly) different - since they're both perceptual codecs, there should be a large overlap in what is removed from the output.

Eg, take a frame which has a solid chunk of blue. Codec 1 removes some of data to make things more consistent and then compresses it. Codec 2 looks at the output of codec 1, sees the consistently large blue area, doesn't see any info worth removing, and compresses it.
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Based on Ubuntu 8.04.3. How current.
What app is that? It's mesmerizing in a totally non-zen but zen Koi Pond way. I wonder if it's built using Cocos2D.
That's terrible. Imaging 'charges for images on free web streams free for the next four years'. How did that ever become acceptable?
I use AgileZen for my startup and really like it. Congrats Nate!
Please add a link to this thread on the site.

I entered the full HN user url in the field and it didn't complain.
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It could also mean $100 for an hour or more of work.
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Music Trivia of the 2010, trivia about your favorite songs.
New release of SHODAN - The Search Engine for Hackers
So, any US HN user willing to send a european developer an iPad for a reasonable price? Exactly how are we supposed to debug our apps without access to hardware?
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I strongly agree that the normalized/aggregated results should be at the top. The first graph confused the hell out of me (like erlanger, I thought "D? Seriously?").

Think of it as putting an executive summary at the start of an article or paper.
Is this really true? Because I have wondered quite a few times. Is www.foo.bar just a subdomain like irc.foo.bar or mail.foo.bar? Is the default www.somesite.com basically just convention?
Direct link to demo: http://dhotson.github.com/springy.html
For those who care more about the underlying OS getting security updates for a long time, 8.04 is still the 'most supported' even if 2 years old. LTS releases have 5 years of updates for servers, so that means 2013. No other Ubuntu server release except the upcoming 10.04 one will be supported that much into the future even if more recent.

Add the fact that turnkey actually uses fresh packages for many appliances and uses only the kernel+base system of Ubuntu LTS, it makes perfect sense.
Let me translate this.

Apple to rest of the world: Fuck you.
If you hate these articles so much, please just ignore them.

You are hindering real discussion with your trollish comment.
If I could get my hands on one, I'd do it... but I can't find one nearby and they're 5-7 days online :\

It's sad to think the rest of the world is waiting (as far as developing goes).
I'm already getting spammed by someone clearly targeting this demographic (not going to name them because I don't want to give them more eyeballs). I don't feel comfortable with you having scraped this data... I didn't mind entering data when it was a hard to find spreadsheet, but now my email is easily discoverable on this website and I'm annoyed.
not sure if freshmeat and google code are the all that 'authorative' about the opensource projects using languages. for one most Ruby projects are hosted on github.
Would love a polite answer to my question.
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congrats Nate!!!
Why, yes, of course it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse.
I wouldn't hold my breath. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/14/over-500000-ipads-sold-a...

::sigh::
This is very cool, but can you add a field to manually select a date in a particular time zone, as well as a current time button?
No. They successfully raised money for StackExchange. That is part of the reason for the change. Here is the post from the blog explaining the change. http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-...
I agree that the show email link should be nixed, and you should use mailto links for the emails if you are going to show emails. I personally would prefer it if you offered a contact form that emailed me via the site (behind a captcha of course).

Why did you have me pick a user name if it's never shown publicly on the site and I log in using my email address?
This is clearly how hiding http:// should be done (if at all). Playing tricks with the clipboard is going to be confusing and frustrating to use. It is also suggested in other comments here; I hope the Chrome devs pick this up.
Yes, it's a real shame that Apple treats developers this way. They are expected to develop top-quality apps but only using the Simulator.

A more normal behavior would have been to provide international developers a way to order iPads from day one. Something like the ADC Hardware Purchase Program but for iPhone developers.
I miss using my 1983 Compaq luggable.
Very neat animation. Is it always the same graph, if you reload ? (with different initial random placements, I mean)

In one case, I observed an edge coming to rest just across an unconnected (to that edge) node. Might be hard to detect/work around ...

[Many moons ago, for an exercise, implemented a force-directed placement, with team-mates doing Kernighan-Lin min-cut (also fast) and simulated annealing (slow) ...]

P.S. Two observations:

- You highlight the node on mouse over. If the edges connected directly to that node were also highlighted, it would palliate the false connection problem.

- Adding some edge-edge repulsion ? Sometimes edges cross, and one of them could be flipped to another side for a locally planar solution.
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Yeah, be nice if there were some provision for paid-up iPhone developers to jump the queue a bit.
Looks like their ears are closed to criticism. ;-)

http://cpedia.com/search?q=Criticism+of+cpedia
Haven't used them yet but there is a start-up called budlebox.com who will act as po box for you in the states and forward goods on to you.
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er, I think you may have missed the point slightly
What a majestic creature.
[edit: or that's some sort of bizarre sarcasm you're using]
I used Bundlebox on US pre-order day and received my iPad here in the UK four days after the US launch. They had to do some voodoo to make it work since Apple cancelled most orders to freight forwarders (I believe it involved getting them sent to 101 random people in the same neighborhood if the postage labels are any indication).. Ultimately, it all worked out fine - they're not scam artists.

All that said, I bet they're getting some heavy demand due to this so if you want one, get in quick. People who ordered merely hours after me were disappointed as their orders had to be delayed due to Bundlebox's capacity to deal with the weird shipping arrangements. And it wouldn't surprise me if Apple is getting wise to these sorts of activities.

(I know someone who cancelled their order upon delay and got a refund quick, so I can't entirely vouch for these guys, but they seem legit.)
This appeared on Makezine last month. And it got me thinking: what would be the best way to do this with a webcam?

pixel = (added pixel value of all frames) / total frames?
I just bought the Focuslist program referenced in the blog as I thought it was a good idea and since my OmniFocus list is choked. Just a warning though, the Focuslist program requires Adobe Air to run. That is a major drag and for my part I'm with Steve Jobs w/r to anything flash and I do not want to install that just to run a window with 3 checkboxes.
Wow, that would drive me nuts.
On the bright side, noSQL went back to being just a broad category of tools.
This guy makes films? And is NOT a nerd? And looked DOWN on Serge?
(Chrome menu issue fixed.)
I'm still desperately trying to figure out where exactly the Twitter platform is supposed to end. Are we supposed to believe that a platform these days is an all encompassing primarily closed ecosystem like Facebook (which I suppose is good from a business standpoint) or something more fast and loose like Twitter up until this new direction?
Delays happen. I suspect Apple are having supply chain issues with the screens (9.7" non-widescreen IPS screens are hardly a commodity item).

Nonetheless, it seems crazy that Apple didn't institute a developers program as they did for the PPC-Intel transition. US iPad developers basically get a two month headstart on everyone else. Hardly a way to foster good feelings amongst a base of developers already sensitive to App Store and contract issues.
The new release 2009.10-2 [1] is pre-installed with all security updates that have come out since the last release batch. Security updates will also be installed on first boot to prevent a window of vulnerability from opening between the time a fresh appliance is deployed and until the (daily) cron job that installs the security updates runs.

Note that Ubuntu 8.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release which will continue to be supported by Canonical with security updates for another 3 years (until April 2013).

All appliances will be rebuilt on top of Lucid (the new LTS) when it is released at the end of the month.

[1] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/maintenance-release
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Yep, it's currently the same hardcoded graph each time. The node starting positions are random so you get a slightly different layout each time.

I was thinking about making edges repel nodes in some way to avoid the problem you mentioned. I'll have to experiment some more..
It's true, specially for games, but there is a significant shift towards JavaScript for non-demanding apps and widgets.
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most people are shortsighted in that they only start chasing something when everyone else wants it.
"surely they can do both?" Are you sure? Top quality engineers don't grow on trees and relegating Mac OS X development to second tier engineers because you don't have enough top engineers may be the road to ruin.

Just having billions in the bank doesn't mean you get top engineers when you are hiring. I rather have a somewhat slower developing OS, if the result is good, than a faster developing crappy OS. I was going to compare to Windows, but that is slow in developing and crappy. Oh well.
"Somebody do something about this, before I LOSE MY FUCKING MIND!?!?!"

Um, what, exactly, is stopping the ranter from doing something about it himself? Is there a law that only people born into a special caste are allowed to create programming languages?

Or is he just too lazy to do more than bitch about the world being sub-optimal?
... begging the question of whether me-too whiz-bang webapps are using things like GPGPU, multicore, etc.

And the desktop software world has been consistently dropping the ball since the beginning. Today's wasteful code that ignores processing resources has solid company among yesterday's wasteful code that was pissing away ram and CPU cycles with locked-in middleware, sloppy code and the rest of our sins. It's nothing new.

And it's not the fault of a shiny new horizon. Desk computers seem to have simply hit a local maxima.

(What is virtualization but an industry-wide condemnation of the state of modern operating systems? We can't get a single box to run a dozen services reliably; instead we run a dozen isolated OS images on that same hardware and things are better.)

The obvious ways to notably improve desk computing require massive change. But we can't quite sell the idea of massive change when things are working reasonably well and most of the planet is accustomed to the current, weird state of desk computing.[1]

So the small incremental changes are the only things left.

[1] I think mobiles and the web are so popular with developers right now precisely because they present the chance to work with and on platforms designed from the ground-up with modern techniques, for modern hardware and services and without all the cruft in the corners.
Why doesn't Google Docs work on iPad?
Works for me.

Are you sure you weren't using the X primary selection (select, middle-click) instead of the X clipboard selection (usual ctrl-c/copy, ctrl-v/paste)?
FWIW, I've navigated this thread a few times and every comment left was voted down to 0 within a few minutes of being made. I voted them all back up to counter it, but someone's playing silly beggars here.

On the plus side, I've now been won over as to why down votes on stories aren't a good idea..
Perhaps it would be better to add a white 'Not identified' badge in the place where the green Certificate Name (or red broken certificate name) goes?

Clicking it would reveal a message that the site is not identified, and information being sent to it is viewable to third parties.

Nobody in my immediate family know what https:// means. They especially have no idea what its absence means.
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Well, I am doing something about it :-) Look at Babel-17 (www.babel-17.com). It is not ready yet, and for the next few months it will be purely functional, but eventually, you will get it all.
Tempting.
It's an interesting business decision: Developing/Penetrating a (perhaps the most important world-wide) market deeply is more important to them than opening up new markets sooner rather than later.
Yeah, that's seriously uncool. At minimum they should be obfuscated or otherwise hidden from scrapers.
It's 40x, but it's not a legal requirement, and if you can get a "guarantor" making 80x, you can circumscribe that, so the parentally-funded unproductives who are ruining this city get a pass.
The iPad is a a new product. An entirely new device with (maybe) a new market. Why would incremental updates to existing products supplant a new product?