skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?!

If the second program is messed up, it makes no difference if you flush or not. You'll still never see an error message.

Stdin will fill up, flush or not, the program will block, and then sit there - no error message.

You could maybe detect if stdin is blocked and say something on stderr - but if you want to do that it makes no difference whatsoever if you flush stdout or not.
Not to mention that it always ships with the "guest" account having root access, and no password. GOOD JOB, GUYS.
I know this is an early version, but why would you show people a competitor to the iPad that doesn't include a touch interface? Maybe to show off the USB?
The difference is simple. This is being hashed out in a courtroom. And has a high liklihood of not happening. :-)
There's no question that Andrew is creating value with Mixery. No one can dispute that.

Andrew, take all the criticism in stride. these are people who care enough to even bother complaining. any criticism is better than nothing at all.

With that frame of mind, you'll get further in creating value for your peers.

Keep it up.
Y! seemed to make some good buys a looong time ago in the mid 90s.

Then they bought broadcast.com and geocities. Those are a few log10 larger purchases and were total failures. So even if there were successful small acquisitions they are hidden by the scale of their bad M&A decisions. M&A is probably still trying to make up for the losses they incurred in 1999.

More recently they bought delicious which I love and continued to use without even noticing that they were acquired. After that the next "success" I can think of is rivals.com which seems like a good buy and good match.

Yahoo still has some great niche (maybe that's a misnomer) markets like fantasy sports and investing. So when they strengthen an existing strong property it seems to work better than bringing in something new.

See: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-sorry-acquisition-hist...
Do you remember Winamp 2? When people tried to make "fancy skins", and failed even more miserably?

And iTunes is highly functional? Since when?
Only a thousand tweets(writes) a second. I found that interesting. So their entire infrastructure exists for propagation and search.
It's not a secret at all. The Google Toolbar will tell you.

http://toolbar.google.com/
Don't miss http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
To pick one particular nit:

The fabled Google Android? It is entirely the piece of junk one ought to expect from a development process driven by committees and steered by non-creative minds. And it appears that many would-be buyers know it.

The actual numbers are around 100k/day (iPhone) vs 60k/day (Android).

Considering that Sony Ericsson and LG still coming up to speed, so those sales are mostly HTC+Motorola, that's pretty impressive.

It's also missing the point that others are free to design their own UI on top of Android and indeed the big players are. Sense (HTC) is really rather nice and definitely doesn't feel like it was designed by a committee.

Edit: Here's a source for the sales numbers http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005344/android-unit-sa... - I'm afraid the opinion about Sense is just my own personal view.
Open Source at Digg
That's an excellent explanation of the underlying issues. Now let's hope the prosecution does as good a job as you just did of explaining this to the jury, and that they make it a criminal case in stead of just a civil one.
Nice - I was expecting it to be US-centric in terms of currency or something, but it's not. Thanks!
My bad, it's corrected now.
It has touch. He shows it a little later in the video. One question though is that it appears that he's doing a lot of the touch with his fingernail, which makes me think that the sensitivity is poor.
I'm wondering what happens to ChromeOS long term if the future is Andriod for portable internet devices.
You keep doing that @ thing, there is a reason why you can't respond directly to the comments that you want to reply to, HN is set up to discourage flame wars by only showing the reply link when a comment is a little older.

So be patient and then when the thread has cooled down a bit you can reply directly.

If you really must reply there is always the 'link' link to the comment, the page that leads to does have the reply box. But beware of fanning the flames.
I'm not talking about cheaper vs. more expensive colleges, I'm talking about poor kids and rich kids paying different prices for the same college.
Does anyone remember Neoplanet? The skinnable browser?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_com...
> if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive.

Or proper usage wasn't explained to him correctly.
Talk to bars, see if your data can be of any use for them.
Maybe a customer goes to a bar, orders 4 samples, discusses his/her opinions, and using your data, a bartender can recommend the "perfect beer".

Found this from a quick google search:
http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1927541
They use touch later in the video, for interface and typing.
They're cheaper to make and they look better at a first glance or when compared side to side with glossy displays.

Of course they look crisper. The matte finish is the necessary compromise to avoid reflections.
...the reality of western man's...

What do you mean "western"? What do you mean "man"?

Edit: Sometimes it seems that "too terse" comments are disliked or misunderstood. So let me explain: it seems that people in the USA, as others have already said in other comments, don't really realise that you're a special case in this matter. Of course there are fat people here in Europe, but not in the same proportion and magnitude. I don't think it's related just to habits. Something bad is in the food additives for sure.

The other question is just evil, so I'm guilty :-) While the more politically correct "person" is often more and more used to refer to both men and women, you (with a "mom" nick) used "men" to restrict, at the same time you were using "western" to expand.
That's it. If you (the common person TM) are on a shop and look at two laptops side by side, one with a matte screen and the other with a glossy screen, I'm pretty sure that person will be more pleased with the colors on the glossy one.

The problems only appear when you start using it.
First: recommendations are a Must Have.

Geolocation: craft beers often have limited distribution, and are only available in certain states, or in areas where the distributors decide to carry them. Reviews of craft beers that you can actually find in a store / bar near you are more valuable than finding the one beer that you will totally love, which happens to only be available in Western Montana.

Monetizing: sell your data! To breweries, to retailers, to distributors. Your correlations reduce the risk inherent in deciding to carry a new product.

Dreaming: point the iPhone at a beer menu, and the app OCRs the beer names, and up pops ratings.

Minor criticism on the website: I typed "bell's oberon" into the search box and couldn't figure out how to click and make the search go. It wasn't until I typed "oberon" really slowly that I got it to work. If I were just casually stopping by the site, I would have given up.
ChromeOS is for netbooks (direct hardware keyboard input, small screen) while Android is for touch devices (android phones, tablet devices, etc).

They're similar, but for completely different markets.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
me too, just bought the pragmatic programmers book.
Am I the only one that immediately thought of Wall-E when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad?
Or deals can exist because the stuff being traded is simply worth different amounts to different people. Like the gentleman who made his money selling ice to India in an article earlier this week.
It's a personal taste thing, honestly. Language features aren't free to users: as a user, you need to understand the behavior, so if there are two possible behaviors that's something else to learn.

There are two different use cases here: lambdas (which may be true closures) and user-defined control constructs. In the first case, I'd argue that you want the declaration semantics to be as close as possible to a normal function definition. You should be defining a function, so return returns from that function, and break/continue statements can't have targets outside the function. For control constructs, you want the code to appear as if its inline, so you want non-local return semantics. I.e. you want it to behave as if it's not actually in a separate function at all.

So I think those are two different constructs, and things get confusing when you conflate the two. At the very least if you want to have those two constructs, make them look different enough that users don't confuse them. Java was going to go the wrong way there on their initial closure proposal (the => versus ==> thing) and make things that look like lambdas behave like in-line statements. Ruby kind of goes the other way and makes everything look like a bunch of statements within the body of something else in contexts (like the reduce() method) where what you really want or would expect is a lambda. If I write "return x + y" in the body of my argument to reduce(), I expect that to be the value of the reducer function, not to exit the function that was calling reduce(). But at least in Ruby a block is always a block and always has the same semantics, even if those semantics seem inappropriate for many use cases.

But again, it's personal taste as to which of those, or both, you want to add to a language. In my personal opinion user-defined control statements aren't all that useful and you can fill most of the needs with language-defined control constructs. But it's a tradeoff the language designer has to make, and there's no one right path.
Web Laureate Classic: "Old Fashioned Book"
> Most of the tea-bagging protesters are protesting stuff that is way over their head

Oh really? You need to keep up. While the story used to be "ignorant", when folks actually looked at them, instead of relying on the US-lef "anyone who opposes me must be dumb" stereotype, they found that the Tea Party folks were, on the whole, better educated etc.

Thus the new attack is that they're elitists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04...

Which reminds me - you do know that "tea bagging" is a reference to a sex act, right? Since you're using it as a pejorative....

Frankly, I think that you're hosed if you're relying on hipsters.
"It's a Unix system. I know this."
An audience of voters that has been given two options, one of which is a disaster on wheels will choose the lesser of two evils. America needs a serious third party contender.
Worse is everytime better!
I hope quality will came back to minds of people =(
Runs Android: Excellent.
Runs Flash: Too Bad.
A year behind the market leader: trouble
Will cost more than iPad: marketplace death

You just can't get away with charging more than Apple's offering unless you're providing some kind of genuine innovation. This is unlikely to offer anything iPad doesn't and even if it did, nobody would be inclined to believe it. That means it has to be cheaper, which shouldn't be so hard with Apple's typical margins.
That's a very odd and circuitous way of doing something that is already built-in, I've got to say.
That doesn't seem typical - I'm using an 160GB X25-M G2 and have almost certainly filled the drive at this point (been running with less than 15% drive space free for a while, I leave hibernation on, installed and removed Boot Camp, etc.) and I'm still getting ~55 - 60MB/sec 4k sequential writes and ~60MB/sec 4KB random writes with the latest firmware in Xbench. I'd think booting would be mostly reads with a few writes here and there, too...
Football coaches are paid well because college football is a net money maker for the university--especially since they don't have to pay the athletes. If you want universities to be even more broke, by all means cut the athletic programs.
In Soviet Russia, toy powers imagination ;-)

In a couple decades, toys will be smarter than kids. A couple more, and they'll be smarter than us.
Torvalds: git vs CVS
I'm happy he just said what he meant, instead of all the 'extensive footnoting' that sometimes goes on here. Footnotes do not make your arguments more solid, on the web you can find articles to link to support just about any position.

The logical arguments are nice though.
You loathe Java but you like Objective-C? Madness.
The best thing is:

At the presentation in germany they used windows mobile as operating system ;)

After 1 weeks they tell'd they truth about :P
> Anyways, if you really wanted to catch a flight to space there are other options. It's reported that you can buy a seat on the Russian Soyuz which is very reliable.

Soyuz was $20M before they raised their prices.

> If you want to go for lower earth orbit, then those distances are easier and cheaper to reach, and I believe there are other commercial craft right now.

Virgin Space still hasn't flown so who are you thinking of?
This article is simply obnoxious. Pathetic ramblings about how great and unique Apple is just because he doesn't like the software offered by Microsoft or the hardware offered by its competitors. Then just cheap, inaccurate, unarticulated attacks on Android.
Since we learn from the online docs, doesn't your statement imply that Gits online documentation isn't very good?
Agreed. My startup (http://www.appstorehq.com) is a multi-platform search and discovery site for mobile apps. One of the platforms we support is mobile web (HTML5) apps.

One thing we've quietly rolled out and are private alpha testing is a dead simple payments API. This allows mobile web app developers to monetize their apps with just one API call.

I'd love for anyone to check it out and let me know what they think (iseff@appstorehq.com). We don't have docs for it yet (since it's still private), but I created a test app for it and open-sourced that:

Fortysquires (a foursquare checkin mobile web app): http://fortysquires.com

On AppStoreHQ: http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquarecl...

And the source on GitHub: http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires

If anyone wants to try it out, I'd be happy to explain further how it can work for you. We hope it helps remove the payments "muck" as well as increase distribution with our hundreds of thousands of UV/month.
No not yet, it hasn't slipped into the App store yet.
I continue to be amazed that people are not more outraged about this. While there is some outrage and certainly charges will be filed, in general the public's opinion of their right to privacy and anonymity has shifted by orders of magnitude in the last 20 years.
I hear that. Worked at a startup where that just couldn't be done and it damn near killed me.

That being said, is it an indicator that as a founder not having what it takes to fire someone can be closely related to just not having what it takes to be a founder in general?
The market for synthetic CDOs like this only arose because the demand for low quality debt exceeded the available supply. Evidence that demand exceeds supply is encouragement to create more low quality debt.

So no, it is not a direct connection. But it is indirect encouragement.
Well, as a developer/hacker, you should care what smartphone the majority of consumers use if you wish to reach the biggest possible audience (as an app developer). Even if they are "humourless and prudish". This is more a relection of Steve Jobs taste I think, than of consumers' taste.

If you are a hacker (and not an app developer) who has a major problem with Apple's policies, then you are absolutely corrrect; it would be highly hypocritical to both own an iPhone/iPad and hold that view simultaneously.
The treatment she got from the government doctors was horrible.

This bit gives me chills: "We were told that we would wait at least four months for an NHS appointmen"

Uggh.

I'm glad that we still have free market doctors here in the US.

Well, at least for the next four years.
Apple has always censored content. Remember all the dictionary apps that were rejected because people could look up bad words?
I read it as 'the punishment should be the same just as if such pictures were taken'.
This is correct.

Nevertheless, I am torn in how to response to CWuestefeld's point. I want to say that it would be just as bad to obsess over intent without worrying about act, but I'm not sure that's true.

Even in the cases presented (accidentally posting a nude photo and arresting someone who had not committed a crime), the crime is still not just in the act itself. The crime is also in the negligence involved. A negligent police officer should be punished even if no one is mistakenly arrested. If someone negligently handles nude photos (I'm not sure why you'd have them in the first place, but let's leave that aside for now), they should be punished even if the photos don't get leaked.

If social security numbers are leaked on a public website, those responsible should be punished even if no one loaded the page. If, however, a company is absolutely devoted to security but someone still breaks in and steals social security numbers, the company's punishment should be less, even though the act (social security numbers falling into the wrong hands) is less bad than the negligent company's act (social security numbers being mishandled but never falling into the wrong hands). I'd rather my social security number wasn't leaked, but I'd place greater trust in a company which handled it correctly and still got broken into than one that handled it recklessly but got lucky.

Really, I think that's the point I want to make above all: Luck should have no bearing on the law.
Also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm–Leach–Bliley_Act

That Gramm guy is Phil Gramm, who later went on to say that the recession was all in our head's and that we're a nation of whiners. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/mccain-adviser-amer...

He also happened to be McCain's chief economic advisor and a co-chair of McCain's national campaign during the 2008 Presidential campaign. http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/18/news/newsmakers/tully_gramm....

Too bad we elected a socialist to the White House. Think how much better we'd be off with McCain and Palin right now! Goldman Sachs would be just fine! The economy would be great! Phil Gramm would be vindicated!

Or we'd be living in the economic equivalent of the Weimar Republic right now. Yeah, that's probably more likely.
Agh, shamed. The description said touch was upcoming, so I didn't bother watching the entire video.

I guess they say that because they only seem to have a rough prototype with touch right now — the one they were using looked a lot bulkier and more unpolished than the demo model.
Yes, because Obj-C is truly just Smalltalk with C-style control structures. Maybe I'm damaged, because I've used Smalltalk in a previous existence, and loved it.

Java is not a dynamic language.
The best thing is:

At the presentation in germany they used windows mobile as operating system ;)

After 1 weeks they tell'd the truth about :P
I second that. Believe me we're in the same boat when it comes to the 'tags'; its almost like the rest of the world lost their right to breathe when you graduate from a 'tagged' college.

Coming back to the lack of 'cred' you just pointed out, this actually is my only HN id.

I'll be honest with you, I created that email id minutes before this post, just to conceal my heavily used gmail id. There are people from the place I work at who visit HN. I'm not ready to quit my job yet but eventually I will.

As much as I'd like to display my HN cred, at the moment I just can't but I'm looking forward to work on that front.

Say, something tells me you're based out of India?
Flickr's on life support. From what I can tell peering in from the outside, the service is down to a skeleton crew. Too bad, really: I love Flickr, and don't look forward to seeing it croak.
RIM CEO doesn't think people really want touch screen phones or tablets
Think of latin as the foundation of French, Italian, modern day Romanian, Spanish and a whole lot of other languages to a lesser extent.

Understanding even only the rudiments of Latin will give you tremendous insight in to the historical development of languages and will help you a lot in learning them as spoken today.
The nice thing about Android is you don't have to use Java. Many other languages target the JVM, which is often trivial to convert to Dalvik (it depends on the language). Right now I'm working on an entire app in Duby (a Ruby-like language with static typing and type inference, with no baggage; reaches native Java speed easily), and loving it. All I had to do was change my compile command to dubyc and I was ready to go. JRuby is in the works, and apparently Scala is possible, and I'm sure many others are working on it too.

I've never written an iPhone app, and this is my first Android app, but I find the API and the SDK to be perfectly easy to work with; it was very easy to get started and quickly start prototyping. I'd like to know what parts of the Cocoa APIs you consider delightful though, just out of curiosity.
> The whole hammer throwing thing from the 80s just seems so ironic now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

I'm not even sure how to reinterpret it today. The Big Brother figure speaks of a garden of pure ideology, and it appears the woman is an app who is about to get rejected by the app store cops.

Is the meaning of the hammer throw that I should go get an Android phone so I don't have to subject myself to the approval of the Big Brother character?
Here in Europe the iPad will cost 499 Euro. So 449 is actually cheaper for us.
I understand the basic process of licensing a product is this:

1) File for a provisional patent (cost $110), this will get you a year of weak to moderate legal protection

2) design, mock-up and create a sales page for you product

3) attempt to license the product to a partner, in this case, a packaging or manufacturing company.

4) in the unlikely event anyone wants it -> profit

5) otherwise, go back to the drawing board, content in having pursued it.

Net outlays, probably less than $1,000, and perhaps 40 to 200 hours of work.

This guy's a wealth of information for this stuff, btw:
http://www.inventright.com/
Also: Provisional Patent info:
http://inventors.about.com/od/provisionalpatent/a/Provisiona...
Titles have to be 80 characters or less. Plenty of times it takes more than that to make a title more 'grammatical', so bits are sacrificed to fit the limit.
If this isn't a sarcastic comment, what does loathing Java have to do with Objective-C?
The most fascinating part of the article is that he admits his best selling phone is a low end model as evidence of what customers really want. Apparently it didn't occur to him that he's not selling higher end phones because his competitors are eating his lunch in that space.
It's quickly becoming my favorite engine. I actually get pretty good results from it. The addition of SSL only makes it better.
Or, while we're on the analogy train, a doctor taking out a $MM life insurance policy on a terminal patient before he performs an operation (which will in no way help the patient live longer), collecting the patient's health insurance dollars along the way.
That's par for the course for this guy. No surprise here.
I was actually wondering why he was padding around with a mouse to start with too.

I wonder though if it supports multi-touch? I really think that's important for tablet computers these days. The control over the device really is so much better.