skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, while you are that he states that the web should be based on open standard you obviously missed the big pile of lies and false facts in his letter.
Basically i'd say that at least every second "fact" in his letter is plainly not true.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfw9fng6_2cscxq6hq
Some places that wouldn't accept a simple email that they print will accept the more direct analogue of a fax: I scan a signed page and email them the scan. When they print this at their end this is 100% indistinguishable from a fax; not to say that there aren't places that will balk just to resist all change, but this version of change may seem a lot less foreign than e-signatures, more of a natural evolution.
Great looking product - they'll have a hard time out-marketing Apple though. This seems like a market where second place is as good as dead.

Good luck to them.

As a side note - there's at least a billion dollars to be made by the first company that develops a fingerprint/smudge free screen - every used iphone i've seen looks gross

Also 1080p on a screen that small is v.nice. The high DPI should make for a nice ebook reader.
I don't think the calculation for "economic freedom" works the same for HN-ers. All of the places above the US have either significant political problems (China, Singapore) or are much worse for startups.

I would gladly move out of the US, if there was someplace significantly better. There isn't right now.
Steve's thoughts commented and largely proven wrong
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I've actually been able to work "when I feel like it" for the past 1.5 months.

Honestly. I've not really been anywhere near as productive as I should have been -- because I've had no reason to set goals/objectives/milestones.

Maybe this doesn't work for everyone.
I just had another thought in case you check back on this thread someday.

Do you know if FusionIO drives internally run as Raid5? Not your external Raid0, but since flash chips are so relatively small in capacity right now, they must using an array internally, maybe Raid5?

If so, Raid5 has a severe performance penalty when very small amount of data are being written (smaller than a single stripe) because it has to then go update the parity across the volume on every write and that defeats any caching.

We already know ALTER itself is slow but I wonder if your storage is working against you in this case because ALTER does a single write for every row in the column when rebuilding the table...?
The iPad/iPhone is frankly too expensive in the Indian market. The market is huge though. Their price point in India should be much lower than the iPad's and that should give them an advantage.

Internationally, that's a different story altogether.
I'm still not sure whether i should buy a tablet or not.
But if i buy one, i will definitely wait for this one.
From my point of view it has a lot of strengths compared to the iPad. The screen in the first place.
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there's nothing like going all meta during a discussion to kill one's political power ;). Arguing over the details is a lot safer than looking at the big picture, I would think.
Man oh man, if Google went into the hardware business, now that would shake things up. Seriously, it would be a huge shift for the company and would require some massive hiring and restructuring. I think that would be exciting, but not at all likely.
I don't see how their price point can be lower since they are using commodity components. Their contribution is the software+hardware combo.

In fact they will probably never come even close to competing on price. Hardware is a tricky game and most is sold at below production cost e.g. consoles and also I imagine the iPod. This loss is recouped through software licensing or in Apple's case the app store. This probably wont be an option for these guys since they are building on an open platform.
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We get about 52k unique visitors on a weekday, so about 8% of visitors voted today. That's higher than I would have expected.
Here's one developers catalog of "lies and half truths" in Jobs' message:

http://jessewarden.com/2010/04/steve-jobs-on-flash-correctin...
Major Victory if the "transflective LCD" is at least partially usable in sunlight. My iPad becomes an extraordinarily effective mirror the instant the sun comes out.
This work habit won't work if you have an employer otherwise your employer will also "Pay You When He Feels Like It".
If you're coding any version of your website, I would hope Flash wouldn't be your first choice.

I think it's safe to generalize that most people (as in "end users") only care about Flash in the context of video and games.
Nice :) I would personally prefer quality rather than quantity with respect to the no. of startups you cover. All the best.
> except without the responsive UX, battery life, or even a fundamental sense of taste

[Citation needed]
Well see even there it's Job's contention that crossplatform frameworks should have displaced native frameworks and limited the hardware manufacturers to effectively just supporting the crossplatform frameworks.

Surely the best argument against Job's position is the iPhone itself. The most important and dominant crossplatform framework in the world is HTML+JS and Apple actually wanted it to take the place of native frameworks. But we all know how that ended and now we have the App Store.

To support his fears on crossplatform frameworks they would have to supplant native apps and I just don't think it happens. OSX's problems with inferior crossplatform titles stem from a comparative lack of native applications - not from the crossplatform software itself.
Yes and no: Flash Lite has existed there in the firmware for ages, but nobody is using it. It also cannot be utilized from the browser.

Going all philosophical: If a software has zero users, does it still exist?

EDIT: My view may be dated. I haven't checked what Nokia is offering through the ovi-system these days, could be that Flash Lite is actually somewhat widely used nowadays.

Also: Flash Lite has existed also in Nokia Series 40 models ("standard phones", not smart phones) since 2007 or so...
"What do you say to that?"

Answer: "Because the value I provide to the company through the work I do more than justifies my salary, regardless of how many hours I spend, and what time I arrive, in the office."

Shorter answer: "'Cause I get shit done."
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You can a multi touch EEE if you don't mind the keyboard.
In Arch, there is never a reason to "manually manage a copy outside the package manager". You can and should install everything via PKGBUILDs -- the format isn't very hard, just keep a template around, fill in the metadata, and make tweaks to the commands to run if necessary. Then everything is always kept in pacman and easy to find and/or remove.

You don't even have to do this; there was a PKGBUILD added to AUR, so all you had to do in this (and most) cases is download the PKGBUILD from AUR or use something like yaourt or clyde that does this automatically.

For me, the problems were fixed with a simple yaourt -S libjpeg6.

And despite Arch's rolling release cycle, I still have much less pain with it than I do with Ubuntu's custom-hybrid-half-versions, based on a release already 4-months-old, with about half of the changes in the newer versions backported, and including handfuls of patches never added upstream. See the Debian SSL fiasco for why this is a bad idea. The system is much feistier than Arch in my experience, even though Arch will occasionally perform upgrades that necessitate lots of rebuilds.
The screen is 1024x600.
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Dodd really needs to have a heart attack, he has been trying to kill startups for the past two years.

I wonder who lines his pockets? Anybody know?
It'll play 1080p content, but not at 1080p (unless you're using HDMI) - the screen resolution is only 1024*600, which is lower than even 720p.
With the cancellation of Courier and Windows tablet, I would't hold out for this.

Yes, there is a working demo but until I see a release date, I won't take this product as a contender against the IPad.
Robot surgery: bring it on
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Interesting for whom? TV is linear, that works great for short summaries of the most important news of the day, not so great for everything else.
Not that this is a good solution in anyway, but when I get stuck having to send a fax, I've found http://faxzero.com/ pretty useful.
I have been tempted to try again, and I can accept the idea that I just hit things at the exact wrong time.

At this point, the main roadblock to trying Arch again hasn't been that past experience, but rather a very high level of satisfaction with Ubuntu 10.04.

Curiosity will get me to take a stab at Arch again, but I really like what Ubuntu is doing on the design/integration side of things.
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The original statement is missing a comma after "that"
Yes, my N82 which several years old phone has flash which I use with no problem.
"know thy self"
A lot of their employees are ex-BBC staff.
"should have" ? maybe you needed some time to unwind
Oops I read '1080p Full HD video playback' as 'has a full HD screen' - wishful thinking maybe :)
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Nice. Now I can feel like I am supporting the underdog when I fly American. Mindblowing.
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People just forget about Apple's failed products. Rev. A anything, the iPod HiFi, etc.
I imagine it looks terrible because you missed the whole point. Apple doesn't care if you make cross-platform apps (eat McDonalds) — they just don't want them on their high-end mobile platform (their anniversary). They are perfectly happy to have them on Windows (their lunch break) or to have patrons who eat at McDonalds occasionally (have non-iPhone cross-platform apps).

Jobs' position is that cross-platform apps suck. Apple is mainly concerned that iPhone apps don't suck. If Windows apps suck, Jobs isn't going to cry too much.
Many of these are pretty good, but on a startup-focused site, I just have to point out this:

"It then becomes your job to help the entrepreneur find a reasonable solution which is merely hard and gets most of what they wanted."

Many startups are founded by doing something impossible (Google, Apple, Akamai, YouTube, PayPal). Most of the remainder are founded by doing something useless (Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, Reddit, etc.) This is for very good reason. If something is neither useless nor impossible, it's quite probable that there's a big company out there that's already working on it, and they can bring more resources to bear than you can.

So if you are the entrepreneur and not merely working for him, it's your job to do the impossible. And yeah, that means turning it into the merely hard and then doing it. But if you aim for "merely hard" to begin with, you'll probably end up producing a mediocre product in the end. After all, products never have quite the same glamor when they're done as when they're conceived in your head.
This reminds me of 37signals ideology a good bit. It works for them, but not everyone. But props to you for doing what they don't - not shoving it down our throats, opening it up for conversation, and accepting potential barriers to success.
Or merely look at some of Apple's other technology bets:

Apple Desktop Bus over PS/2 and serial (ADB lost, native ps/2 and serial connectors are still around and USB can easily talk to ps/2 or serial devices with the aid of a simple adapter).

SCSI over IDE (IDE won).

PowerPC over x86 (x86 won).

Firewire over USB (USB won).

AppleTalk over TCP/IP (TCP/IP won).

I don't think Flash is the right choice, and I'm ok with the idea that some mobile devices won't support Flash, but this anti-Flash jihad seems to be going too far.
>> "For me, the problems were fixed with a simple yaourt -S libjpeg6."

Which makes it all the more disappointing that all I could find were needlessly complex solutions instead.

yaourt looks very helpful. Seeing it listed as the 20th "AUR Helper" (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers) didn't exactly make it jump out at me and scream, "this is what you want!"
b/w mode works in sunlight.
Is there a website that will animate these?
I read it as:
Tablet = Works great in Dimly lit areas (Backlighting)
eBook Reader = Works Great in Sunlight.

If true, then it really is a new species, neither iPad nor Kindle.
I don't see a single ad on Al Jazeera english website. How do they survive? I know it is funded by a rich seikh.
Summary: Systems designed to be consistent are bad, because if they break, they will be broken.

At least, that's what I'm parsing this as. The author argues that because eventually consistent systems are designed to have inconsistency as a normal event, they can recover from inconsistency -- but this completely ignores the fact that large consistent systems (or at least, those which are designed well) also check for inconsistencies so that fail(ing|ed) nodes can be killed.

Maybe I'm missing something: Did anyone see something profound in this article?
Ever since I bought my rarely-used Mac Mini, I've wished I could just drop OS X on my super-beefy Linux+Windows development machine. I hate having to have two keyboards, a monitor with two inputs, two mice or a switch, just to use OS X once in a while. And there's no way I'm giving up my model M for development.
I've been wondering about civilian involvement in cyberwarfare lately. I think it's pretty likely that some regular citizens would love to throw some cheap cyber-shots at a nation with whom we were at war. If we were to war with China, for example, how many American amateurs and hobbyists would spend their evenings trying to hack some part of the Chinese military infrastructure?

Another thing that pops into my head is people trying to organize, only to have real-life enemy intelligence agents read the plans on a forum and thereby develop countermeasures, and/or disrupt, sabotage, or steal what is developed in order to use it against them.

Not to mention people tweeting troop movements, etc. :P

War might not be pretty, but it sure is fascinating.
There are free quicktime implementations. The format was fully documented. Many (most?) of the codecs are a problem. Thank goodness they finally came to one that is an open standard. Of course most places ditched the quicktime wrapper at the same time so it is moot.

The missing piece, which I don't understand, is why does no one sell a cheap H.264 decoder for Linux/*BSD? There are free (beer) implementations, and the MPEG-LA suggests that the first many thousands are no royalty and after that it is something under a dollar (I didn't look that up, working from memory). So why not a business selling legally licensed but open source H.264 to the free software crowd for $3 a pop?
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It's hard to argue that a mere website comment equates to news reportage - but first, let's take a look at the weather.

Seriously, I am not impressed with this author's argument, which goes so far to say that an individual can "simply set themselves up as a 'news organization'". This is an absurd position, akin to saying that talking as you walk down the street is like being a broadcaster because others can hear. He then goes on to say there should be federal shield law; a reasonable request on its face, but not if it's going to apply to every random posting on the internet.

It's been cited in relation to the Gizmodo flap, but to be honest i can't see the relevance. I'm no lover of that blog but I do think they're journalists, just not very good ones.
opensecrets.org, it isn't hard to find out.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N0000...
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Well sure. Once the consequences of your wrongful actions come home to roost of course you're going to come to regret those actions.

I think this guy is probably being a bit too harshly treated by the media / public, but I would hope this whole thing will give others pause when they weigh the morality of filching lost property even when there's the opportunity to make a few quick kilobucks and be part of a, to you perhaps, exciting scoop in technology journalism.
Level 5: You cracked the humor algorithm and developed a small humor library that now ships with the operating system.
The notionink.in site is terrible, and I went into this prepared to be entirely dismissive of whatever the video contained, but I was really impressed. It looks like a legitimately cool device.
now... I'd gladly pay as much as for an iPad for a device that gives me (a) the basic functionality you'd use on an iPad (web browsing, calendar, pdf viewer) but also (b) enables you to use any kind of application, including your own, without paying extra for a "developer account" or requiring to jailbreak the thing.

That said, yes they have a prototype, but are they any closer to market than the WePad (also Android)?
I disagree... Apple's argument is really poor and arguing against it would be difficult for this reason, any thorough response would probably look defamatory. Its a lot easier to just treat it with the contempt it deserves.

For example, it contains intrinsically weak arguments. e.g. the section headed "Fifth, there's Touch" is equally applicable to HTML5 and infact most of the rest of the internet technologies. If you can fix "Touch" well enough for HTML5 then you must be able to fix it well enough for Flash, the requirements are identical.

The h.264/battery life argument is similarly weak in that it can be turned against almost any video codec, suggesting that h.264 is some kind of silver bullet "optimal" solution, which it most certainly is not. It also closes the doors to open solutions and user choices of codec - what if I want to host video myself and don't want to waste resources and money on h.264?

The layers argument is good, but unfortunately in this context it is extremely weak - Apple love adding their own layers. Look how many layers there are in OS X... should Cocoa be ditched just because its an extra layer? It provides similar functionality to Flash of "making something hard, easier".

The open argument is pretty irrelevant to whether Flash is useful or not, but I actually like it... my traditional reason for disliking Adobe has been PDF and Flash and the way they have degraded the internet, although that has as much to do with bad use as it does with being proprietary formats.

The remaining arguments are the "full web" and "security" arguments, both of which are valid although I am distracted midway through the "full web" argument by this blatant lie - "There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.". Maybe he means you can buy more titles - that would be almost believable...

The security argument is great but I'd be careful of making too much of it - iPhone is secure by obscurity and I suspect Flash is such a "security problem" because it is so heavily used. You can compare Safari and IE in the same way, IE is much, much, MUCH, more secure - but to a pretty good approximation, nobody uses Safari - still IE gets a worse image for security because so many people are using it that its 1) a worthwhile target 2) got a large enough user base that complaints come in significant volumes.

Did any of that sound remotely good?
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That las paragraph strikes me as inconsiderate and a lot of guess-work. There's nothing wrong in wanting a website to work in a device who markets itself as something to browse "the full web".

As he said: "Buying shit from the App Store is not the Internet I signed up for.", but that's Apple's vision for internet. One they control, pre-approve and sell in their market.
The eInk option is what would make this a winner for me. The other bells and whistles are nice too, though.
Another aspect to this is the constantly cited metric of "number of apps" (which seems totally bogus to me, but that's another argument). The instant Flash arrives on a platform it becomes arguable that that platform rivals if not exceeds the iPhone app store in number of "apps".

When iPhone advocates say "but we have 200,000 apps" and Android advocates can simply reply "well we have 50,000 apps and 200,000 flash apps of at least the same quality as 150,000 of the apps on the iPhone".
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Humor: something Microsoft could stand to learn a bit of.
Maybe you were thinking about some of these threads?
http://searchyc.com/submissions/what%2527s+a+non-programmer+...
http://chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer.html

also there's an animation at the bottom of the article.
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I like the bit about doc, I am in agreeance with most of that section.
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where hardware talks to software more often

that sounds silly enough that they might be on to something. i had to think about that for about 30 seconds. then i realized, that is probably the name of the game in this semi-embedded/tablet space. the fact that they are so focused on that, to the detriment of making sense, is a good sign, i think.
It seems like there's a whole lot of nothing going on for the first 2 billion years. But what I think we miss is during that time, a lot of the complex biochemical and organic pathways were being developed--without which none of the other classifications of lifeforms would have appeared--and none of these bio pathways manifest themselves in the fossile record.

If we were somehow able to classify organisms biochemically instead of by their physical features, I wonder how different the picture would look?
Its a shame this is out-of-date a bit... optimising loops by removing floating point operations? On x86/x64 its hard to remove a native float and replace it with something faster without some quality/accuracy tradeoff these days.
I can't believe this is real. Just wow.
Good thing disabling Javascript completely cripples basic CSS selectors... Not.
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Yeah, it's a terrible sentence. First they're "we," then they're "Adobe," then they're "we" again, and while you were distracted by all that, behind your back they snuck in "as we are [working]" when they meant "as we do."