skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook on the other hand, embraces the open web

No offense, but I find that to be an odd definition of "open web".

They don't support a distributed protocol and they don't support data portability in any meaningful way.
hey, semi-noob here.

what do you mean by "alley or calico"? sorry, but google isn't helping me here...
I thought the original question was whether physical keyboards would still exist.
Well somebody has to expend the resources, whether it's the job seeker signaling what kind of developer they are or the company looking harder and longer for each position.
It amazes me how PR firms and money influences public opinion when I see this "And if Microsoft can do it, Apple probably can too."

Today some people believe MS invented the desktop, and they will try to convince people they started the ARM transition when all they have is prototypes when there are companies already selling ARM computers(Linux and mac)today.

Give credit where credit is due: When OneLaptopPerChild started using ARM for computers, I remember companies laughing about it: "Just a phone with a screen", "just a toy for kids", "you can't do anything with ARM", "people want power, they are never going to tolerate this". This coming from people in the industry like Intel execs.

Then Apple used it for iPad and demonstrated that people would buy it. Apple has designed and already sold a lot of this and will offer an ARM Desktop in the future. The difference is that Apple uses to show finished products, not prototypes like MS loves to do since Windows 3.11 days.

[Edit:I'm wrong here, OLPC does not use ARM jet,but AMD, but the idea was that low power comp has been seen as a toy when it could transform mobile computing]
Then perhaps we could apply today's startup quote!

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts. - Larry Ellison
I just don't think that the underlying desire, to make women uncomfortable, is the norm.
I believe she suffer from the typical mind fallacy, thinking all males have overly aggressive/violent sexual desire.

Note: I am a male.
Some people look at sex-drive as something like a God-given gift, whereas others see it as basically a (fun) evolutionary side-effect. Varying degrees of sanctimony ensue.
You're asking several questions at the same time here -- keyboards vs. other input devices (voice? gestures? telepathy), QWERTY keyboards vs Dvorak, physical keyboards verses on-screen, etc. Can you clarify the poll, or is it too late?
Absolutely agree. I love that paper, too. I'll add a link to it in the post later today.
You know the etiquette here. If you don't think it's neat or useful then Just Flag It. You don't need to look down on other people's interests while you're at it.
Thanks for your response, skip! SUM is the sum of attributes A, but MEAN is the mean of attributes B, so I don't see how they can be simplified.
If you're working with real-world objects, one approach is to place the object of interest on a turntable, allowing you to capture multiple perspectives with a single camera/sensor. Philo Hurbain has made some delightfully clever LEGO NXT 3D scanners this way (delightful especially because they're used, in turn, to digitize the shape of complex LEGO parts) - one using a needle probe, and another using a laser.

http://philohome.com/scan3d/scan3d.htm
http://philohome.com/scan3dlaser/scan3dlaser.htm

You might also be interested in the Makerbot folks' structured light 3d scanner kit: http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/09/14/new-makerbot-3d-scanner-...
To rephrase what I think the poster's point was:

AOL wanted to pretend the rest of the net didn't exist. We've seen where that game plan leads: irrelevance.

Facebook, contrariwise, is willing to accept the existence of non-Facebook material on the net, even if the long-term plan is to Borg it.
I'm just the one who was playing. I didn't submit it to HN. (In fact my skills at nodejs are so nascent that I am apprehensive about it being up here.)
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How can you, or anyone else, profess to know what's normal in bedrooms?
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I'm always traveling (it's part of my job) and I rent it out while I'm away. Airbnb handles the payment, and the reviews can only be left by people who have stayed through the community so you know they are legit. You can also choose who stays - that's why everyone has profiles. In any case, I offset my rent about $400/month and have "travel fun" money now. I'm 70% to my goal of heading to Thailand in March! Can't wait!
Much like veb's experience, I went to check it out and couldn't even view a debate without signing in. I proceeded to close the page. I enjoy debate websites, and I used to frequent essembly before it died. But, I'd like to be able to casually browse the ongoing discussions there without having to sign in.
IM still hasn't made any serious money...
That doesn't mean it's inevitable, you may well die before you succeed.

The ability for federated social networking to take off hinges on user experience. It's not impossible, but Facebook has a huge advantage in crafting a user experience because it doesn't have to worry about the technical pitfalls of a federated system.
About.com's content is decent sometimes. The problem is finding it amongst all the ads.
Have you read about ChucK? It's a real time language for synthesis, composition, and audio programming.

The name of the program comes from their 'chuck' operator, which works similarly to what you've described.

If you look at the wikipedia page, it looks exactly like what you are proposing - I was looking to use it myself for a different project involving music analysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK#Code_example

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
sometimes its about doing the right thing
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I just used Airbnb for the first time last week. Had a pretty good experience with it. Stayed at a fellow HN'er's ( ngrandy ) place. A very pleasant experience overall, I'll probably keep using it in lieu of hotels when I travel.

The culture of the site is interesting in itself - it attracts people that don't mind having a stranger in their house. You really have to be a sociable person to allow that, and it shows in the personalities of the hosts (and guests). Makes for a very friendly and welcoming environment.
I didn't say Facebook supports the open web. I said they embrace it (think MS embrace and extend). They don't expect you to stay on Facebook all the time, they give tools to allow Facebook to be on all sites, and they give site owners incentive to use those tools.
I agree. In fact, apprenticeship was the means for doing exactly that in many professions before it was dumped for theory school.
I think it depends a bit on what you mean by 'ubiquitous'.

Eventually voice will probably supplant the keyboard for many written communications, and gestures for navigation (which is more about replacing the mouse anyway), but voice is actually not that great for expressing certain types of content.

Programming code comes to mind immediately. I'd much rather type

IF (($i === 'foo') && ($z === ($t + 2)))

than try to speak it with parenthesis (assuming we still program that way in 20 years).

On the other hand, maybe one of these brainwave readers will have a breakthrough and I'll just be able to think it =).
I am working on making the debate viewable for unregistered users. It is just an MVP but would try to populate it. What features would you like to see?
Oh, there are actually 2 recommendations, one for oligosaccharides (as you correctly stated), but also, if you look at the sidebar: "Neutralizing Phytic Acid" It recommends soaking in an acidic solution (for that purpose). So it seems like the ideal according to this article would be to start soaking basic, then acidic, then slow cook.
would work on that immedaitely
great idea. Let this be the first question asked at any Google event.

In fact, let there be a sea of hands all gesticulating wildly to present it.
"Instead, you must aim for and click specific blank areas between the various navigation items. This reduces usability and also obliterates accessibility for users who have less dexterity."

I highly doubt that, given that the standard size for the dragging bar on in OS X is only 22 pixels tall, while the bar on the Mac App Store appears to be about 54 pixels tall. The increased vertical size would seem to make up for the smaller horizontal draggable area, from an accessibility standpoint.
It’s very similar to the new iTunes icon. I sincerely hope that Apple is not going away from the realistic icons, I have always loved those. I am not much impressed by symbols on blue circular backgrounds.
Doh, that's right, and it is one of the coolest and most fun to abuse features of jQuery.
I second the Airbnb fanboyism!
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Paying a pro photographer to come take a few shots of the place pays off immensely in the number of bookings. It's just good marketing.
Oh, I missed this detail. In that case for a deterministic result I think you need to look at every possible combination. However, you can order them by the minimum criterion first, and start searching from the smallest to largest, so then the first group than meets the interval criteria is guaranteed optimal.
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Polling QWERTY v Dvorak is splitting hairs. If I asked each of the people in my (reasonably sized) office what a Dvorak keyboard was, I reckon less than 10% would know what I was talking about.

That said, yes, the question could have been simply asked "will the keyboard be the primary input device in 20 years?"
The only way that I see keyboards being replaced is if we figure out a direct brain interface that lets us bypass mechanical input at all, and simply "think" text into the machine.

Otherwise, there's simply no faster and more precise method of text input at the moment, and nothing that I've even seen hinted at in the research labs.
Let me introduce you to the iPad...

Seriously though, at the risk of sounding like a fanboy, it seems clear that Apple is leading the way here.

Highly-portable touch computing is where things look like they're going, and Apple is not moving off of Intel for the Mac. They noticeably didn't pick Intel's offerings for their iOS line, which is outselling the Mac by quite a bit.

There's definitely a transition going on here.
I have a 4 year old machine and no sluggish scrolling, unlike with iTunes. Is this a common problem?
Yep. It's Adam.
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I'm also surprised it is getting so many up votes (not that it's not interesting at all). Perhaps people blindly up vote anything with "Node.js" in the title?
This isn't just about myself, though. There are approximately 50 other projects all working towards distributed social network. Some may be farther than others, but there's just too much interest from the open source world to say that Facebook's reign (or the reign of walled gardens, even) is immortal.

And I would even wager that, once a protocol is adopted, that some of the smaller social networking sites will add support for it as a way to compete with the big guys.

It may take time, it may not be for a while, and it won't happen over night, but those of us who believe strongly in the open web are a bit too zealous to ever admit defeat.
As much as I agree with the overall premise (Facebook won't be king of the mountain forever), I'm still a bit unsure about what the driving force will be for users to go from Facebook to "open" alternatives.

The driving force for leaving AOL was clear: there's a big, exciting internet out there that's more interesting and innovative than AOL chatrooms and AOL keywords, and the user base was also getting a little more comfortable with computers and didn't need AOL to hold it's hand so much any more.

I don't see a similar driving force for leaving Facebook. As a matter of fact, Facebook is embracing innovation, pre-emptively embracing whatever things might give users a reason to jump ship.
Yup, he produced the video: https://twitter.com/#!/lonelysandwich/status/230570589620838...
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Her anecdote doesn't support her case. It seems clear that the guy was taking out his post-breakup frustrations on Ms. Vargas-Cooper. He may normally be a decent, caring person who just tried to get back in the dating pool too soon. Punishing a rebound girl/boy for the sins of the previous girl/boy is not something that either gender has a monopoly on.
I believe the normal use case is to stick a Hello Kitty sticker to any smartphone.
On one hand, I wish there was something your kind (McCarthy, Oprah, Wakefield) could be criminally charged with. On the other hand, that would probably trigger some martyrdom-complex and rally even more people to your cause.

Evidence against the conspiracy is only seen as further exposing the vastness and deviousness of the conspiracy.
Created http://www.supersaas.com all by myself, although by now there are a bunch of people doing customer service and sales worldwide.
I find insights on the inner workings of HTTP servers interesting. The comments about sendfile(2) provided great value for me. Score imo :)
"The output being readable to human programmers probably shouldn't be a goal when JS is being used as a compiler target."

Everyone says that until they have to debug the generated JavaScript in IE.
For those that think JavaScript makes a good VM format for the web, I've written a couple blog posts recently on this topic:

http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/native-client-is-widely-misunde...

http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/digging-into-javascript-perform...

Basically, we need another 10x to 30x in performance for JavaScript to match native code performance...
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There are a few legitimate things I need Growl to notify me about, mostly unit tests. Unfortunately, every single time I install any other Mac application that wants to use Growl to notify me about dumb shit, I have to go configure it not to use Growl for dumb shit. It's an annoyance.
Keyboards will be relegated to a specialist tool, something only a small number of people interact with. Much like paper books. I would predict voice recognition will supplant the keyboard as the most common means of entering text.

Basically, what showerst said.
There doesn't exist a single data-driven methodology that can avoid local maxima without brute force the entire design space. Conceptualizing things and being creative is what avoids local maxima.
Can you imagine work on a environment where everybody is speaking to the PC? I'll be chaos :S
If the keyboard is going to be substituted, please, it need to be something silence! Telepathy would be great :)
I would imagine that keyboards with physical buttons might be replaced by touchscreens with tactile feedback and gesture recognition capability for lots of applications. Touchscreen keyboards have the advantage of being adaptable to different tasks, languages, etc.

Voice recognition is finally here from a technology standpoint...right now I use voice to input about half of my searches. email, and text messages on my Android phone. But on a computer when I have to code or write a page of text, a physical keyboard is the way to go.

I think the old keyboard will still be around for some time to come.
He also did these:

Jawbone's JAMBOX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgC3zjNH1oU&feature=playe...

Couch to 5k (iOS app): http://vimeo.com/15981967
You mean like http://www.opensocial.org/ ?
Your wording has made the poll meaningless, unfortunately. Of course keyboards will still be around in 20 years -- in museums if nothing else. Under the fold you use the word "ubiquitous". Keyboards aren't even ubiquitous now -- there are large parts of the world where computers (thus traditional keyboards) aren't common.

Here's a couple of more tightly worded questions for suggestions:

- will a traditional qwerty keyboard be present in the majority of American homes?

- will a qwerty keyboard sit on the desk on most office workers not doing IT duties?
Steve Jobs calls a meeting with his engineers. He walks in to the room with an iPad, presses the sleep button and the iPad is ready to use instantly. He throws a MacBook on to the table and says, "Why can't this do that."

Not an easy problem to solve.

Or so the story goes. My point is, I've come to appreciate good idea guys. The guy who wants the underwear car is not a good idea guy. The guy who asks you to do something hard, but ultimately attainable and useful is the one who will push you to new heights.

I sit somewhere in-between I can (and have) built software. I'm not a rockstar(tm) or a ninja(tm), but I can think laterally. It's this same quality that allows me to wear the "idea guy" hat, so I can empathize. Nothing irks me more than to sit down with someone who thinks they're a hacker because they can implement their own ideas with code. That's great, but how do you react to a challenge? Can you pull together disparate pieces of technology to form a cohesive product? Maybe you can, and that's great, but sometimes "idea guys" can help you make the connection you can't see yourself. You just have to spend a little time understanding them and coaching them on the tools that are available. You'd be amazed what comes out the other side.
Some more facts by video creator Adam Lisagor http://lonelysandwich.com/

I wonder how much something like this would cost?
My point exactly. She does exactly that.
I think that's his point.

I feel like the author is so caught up in the view of male sexuality being motivated by a desire to debase women (which would be well supported if we consider the extremes of pornography to be normal), that she fails to make a convincing argument that that underlying desire is in fact the norm.

> While sexual aggression and the desire to debase women may not be what arouse all men, they are certainly an animating force of male sexuality.

I think it's kind of a jump, when looking at how something plays out in the bedroom, to make statements about the motivations (e.g. enforcing male hegemony), particularly when applying it broadly to a large and varying group.

Under her assumption that sexuality isn't egalitarian, and that pornography is an "unvarnished view of male sexuality" in general, she makes some good points, but I think the author fails to substantiate the validity of these assumptions.

As much as the debasement of women in pornography offends me, we need to keep in mind that it's a product, and as such it doesn't necessarily provide deep insight on the consumer or the producer - both of whom are just negotiating to find something that more or less suits their needs at the moment.
As I understand it, the Afghanistan War Diaries and the diplomatic cables from a trove of documents gathered by one Bradley Manning - a US Army Private First Class who had access to SIPRNet (the DoD classified network). He went into a secure area with CD-RWs and downloaded as much data as he could, and then ferried it out.

In this kind of scenario, where you have a trusted insider bridging an air-gap, no amount of throttling can really help you, and the limitations imposed by throttling might hinder legitimate network activities (e.g. building of search indices).
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Thank you for following up. Much of that will be the rotary drive and unfair to compare to an SSD.

For what it is worth, I do like Intel, my Core 2 Duo is so good it will tide me over until Ivy Bridge (22nm).
Sure, but how long will it take to topple Facebook? The article talks about 2011. I'd be willing to bet Facebook will still be the largest social network in 2020. 10 years in tech is an eternity, so I feel that that's a pretty strong assertion. To say that some kind of set of open social networking protocol will dominate in 15, 20, 30 years is a pretty open-ended prediction that's hard to argue with.
Not unless they give me a soundproof private office.

I wish dictation were so efficient that it would be clearly worthwhile for every company to spring for soundproof private offices. But it isn't and they don't.

Meanwhile, even in my isolation-tank dream world I'd still want to be able to work in public, or in meetings, for a portion of every day. And that requires a keyboard.
What about running proprietary IM networks is "doing the right thing"?
Maybe it's just me, but I automatically dragged the window by the empty space between the icons - and it works as expected. Hopefully they have done some testing on this to feel safe enough about the change.
Are you looking for founders of monetized creations only, or interested in cool just-for-fun or free to use stuff as well?
Yes, but they won't be traditional QWERTY keyboard. Ergonomic keyboards (like the Kinesis Advantage) will replace traditionala keyboards and the QWERTY layout will quickly disappear.

I also think that both physical and virtual keyboards will disappear from mobile device, since it makes no sense to use a layout designed to type with then fingers on a tiny screen.
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The Quantcast metric you're referring to is 80 million unique US people per week.

Facebook's number is the number of global active users.
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Voicing code may be a more pleasant than at first glance. You could describe the if statement in your comment to somebody sitting next to you, and he'd understand it (with a little work).

A future voice-IDE might be even better at it, since it has total contextual knowledge (your source). Assuming, of course, that the traditional hurdles of voice-recognition are dealt with properly.
Thanks so much for showing me that sub-reddit. Wish it was more frequented though.
I don't mean the crippleware. I was intrigued by an interesting-looking code editor, but I couldn't test to see if it would really work the way I thought it would, and it was too expensive to buy on a lark. Without sharp eyes, you may not see the developer's site link or know to check for a trial version.
I too don't buy the argument that the aggressive, degrading sex you see in lots of internet porn is what every male secretly wants. My theory is that the reason lots of internet porn is extreme is the same reason as why movies revolve around unusual situations: it's good drama. It's something most people don't experience, and so they're curious about it. Here's a testable hypothesis using anal sex as an example:

In a longitudinal study, ask a group of men who watch internet porn about what sorts of videos they watch every six months for several years. Also, ask them about what kinds of sex they have had in the previous six months. From the results, pick those men who first have anal sex during the time period, and compare their porn habits six months before to six months after they report having anal sex. I predict you would find that, as a group, they will watch fewer videos involving anal sex after than before they do it themselves. It's no longer as novel, so it's not so interesting.
Everyone thinks there is room for improvement in what makes it from the new page to the front page. I think someone has a Chrome extension that displays the front page and new page side by side. I recently decided I want to try that, but now I can't locate the reference. ...anyway let's all try to stay positive about improving the front page.

I'm interested in reading about node.js, but don't do any development. I found this post interesting.
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[Update] This can be seen as one variation of the knapsack problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knapsack_problems
I don't get this "voice recognition" thing, at least I fail to see how it is superior to keyboard. It may have it's uses when your hands are already busy, but otherwise. Starbucks full of people talking to their computers? Cubicles full of people talking 8 hours a day?
Just not music, TV, movies.