skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll complain.

The ipad is a second class browsing experience not because of the lack of flash, but the lack of cache. It's just not anywhere near as snappy reading as a Real Computer(tm) because it's constantly reloading stuff that's been purged.

My usual style of reading (on the desktop) is to pop open a pile of stuff in tabs, then batch read through. Can't do that on the iPad.

Safari could also use a few more cycles to make it seem that much snappier. While it feels like magic, and I would have killed for its browsing performance a few years back, it just doesn't feel quite there yet.

Also, just in the last month or so, I've noticed some sort of background task that causes stuttering in some places. (mainly in angry birds). For the first time, I've noticed that I needed to restart it. Its' a small thing, but it's also the first time I've had to resort to computer troubleshooting on it.
Someone should probably point out this is a good thing.

It's exactly how Apple does it with the iOS platform - some apps are targeted exclusively at the iPad, and the App Store filters on screen size. Some people say this is fragmentation, but I think a better term would be specialization. All platforms do it - the question is how easily the platform lets deal with it. I think Android does it pretty well (as does iOS).

If you want to target the low-resolution devices then you put it in your manifest and it will appear in the market.

I'm sure the same thing will happen with Google TV - some apps will be designed exclusively for Google TV, and so won't appear for phones. Doing anything else would kind of miss the point of the market!

(It's also worth noting that many Android apps have download links from a website, so if you really, really want to use an app that isn't designed for your device you probably can)
... and large-paste support.

... and backlog replay when you go offline.

... and searchable history.

... and (like most IRC clients, but unlike Campfire) built-in notification support.

You can get some of these with IRC, if you have a server to run bip on or leave irssi running on, but it's worth having an integrated package that Just Works.

(Hipchat: you're welcome for the endorsement, now how about that IRC gateway? http://help.hipchat.com/hipchat/topics/irc_compatibility?fro... :)
It's a well understood and useful concept. Let's say you work at a job making $120K. Then in November, you start a new job paying $180K. Would you think that you make $130K (the amount you actually earned that year) or $180K (the amount you expect to make going forward)? Is the extra $50K fabricated salary?

How else would you communicate fast growth in revenue? Also, since run rate is well understood, people don't use it for exceptional or one-time events like a bonus. For example, Groupon didn't claim to be raising money at $12B/yr since the big raise was a one-time event.
I am currently viewing https://convore.com/django-community/there-arent-enough-djan... but it keeps reloading the page from time to time, interrupting my current reading... in both Safari and Chrome
What SDK version are you using in the emulator?

I find 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 good (on Windows), but the 3.x prerelease is pretty slow (it's unoptimized yet, so I guess I should expect that)
Yes, false claims. You claimed that "DDG just uses the bing API" to get results. That is false, and I don't remember ever saying that anywhere because it is false.

Those two posts do not say otherwise. They mention that we use BOSS, which is of course true. The distinction is that we do not just use BOSS by any means.

I actually started out crawling the Web before BOSS even existed, and still crawl quite a lot. As for recent info, look no farther than the DDG FAQ, or my HN comments. This is from just 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2184873

Note: no one was requiring you to make any claims, false or otherwise. So I still don't get why I need to divulge information to stop you from making false claims.
Using phonetics to make search better on a site (see comments)
There are many issues for the content farmers, too:

* hard to search => less google juice
* hard to cross-reference => less retention, harder to build link farms that aren't ferreted out quickly
* slow to consume => higher bandwidth cost

Then again, I wouldn't exactly mind if content farmers went out of business :)
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I've never heard the term "lobster profitable." What does it mean?
Hahaha, she gives huffpo guff for misleading headlines, in an article with a misleading headline.
Google Translate epic fail accross language families
To celebrate the release of the spoken interface to Google Translate, I asked the machines to translate my last fb post to English, then back to Hungarian, then to English again, etc, etc.

the original Hungarian text:
Többen kérték, hogy fordítsam le a “Slim Logic”-ot magyarra. Mivel elég sok USA-specifikus része van az írásnak, ez elég nehéz lenne.. De itt van a két szerintem leghasznosabb hűtőre mágnessel kitehető táblázat belőle magyarul.

(note the quotation signs around Slim Logic. This is major help for the dumbass machines).

Hungarian to English #1:
Several people asked to turn off the "Slim Logic" was Hungarian. Since there are many US-specific part of the writing, it would be quite difficult .. But here I think the two most useful fridge magnet in the table arises from it in Hungarian.

English to Hungarian #1:
Többen kérte, hogy kapcsolja ki a "Slim Logic" magyar volt. Mivel sok amerikai-specifikus része az írás, ez elég nehéz .. De itt azt hiszem, a két leghasznosabb hűtő mágnes a táblázatban ered, hogy a magyar.

Hungarian to English #2:
Several people asked to turn off the "Slim Logic" was Hungarian. Since many American-specific part of the writing, it's pretty hard .. But here I think the two most useful fridge magnet in the table comes from the Hungarian.

English to Hungarian #2:
Többen kérte, hogy kapcsolja ki a "Slim Logic" magyar volt. Mivel sok amerikai-specifikus része az írás, ez elég nehéz .. De itt azt hiszem, a két leghasznosabb hűtő mágnes a táblázatban származik a magyar.

Hungarian to English #3 is the same as #2, so we have convergence after two iterations. Somehow, I am not very impressed though...

Just for the record, here is how I would translate the original to English:
Several people have asked me to translate “Slim Logic” to Hungarian. As the essay has many US-specific parts, this would be quite difficult... But here are the two, I think, most useful tables from it that can be stuck to a fridge with magnets.

(Note: the last sentence of the Hungarian original is a lot more densly expressed, using tricky features of the language.)

Ok, maybe Hungarian is not a major language, and certainly not one with an easy grammar, so this fail may be due to language choice. Sadly, it is not: You may try Hindi, or Mandarin, and the results will be similar. The translator, however, works quite well if you stick within the Indo-European language family (and avoid set expressions, like "evening shadow").
Our inspiration definitely came from IRC, but the learning curve is just too sharp for most employees. If you can dedicate resources to teaching the sales team how to connect to your server and DCC files, that's great. I'd rather have them drag-and-drop with HipChat.
"One startling omission from that list: Microsoft. Their former hardware partners are heading off into the touch-computing future without them. We could have four competing tablet platforms six months from now — iOS, Android, WebOS, and Playbook — and not one of them is from Microsoft"

Microsoft clearly seems to have taken their own sweet time to make an entry but they clearly have an intent and when they do, the biggest thing that they will have going for them is the knowhow of the platform and a plethora of apps that are already existing there that will be easy to port.

Just like mobile this will end up being a 3 horse race in a few years. Apple, Google and Microsoft. The rest of them are just wasting their time and money in competing. None of them have existing ecosystems or platforms that they can leverage to fight with the three big players.
It's going to be pretty interesting watching this play out. But Apple and Android have an unfair advantage right now...apps, and lots of them. If you've got an iOS or Android phone and already own some apps the other guys are going to have to ship something amazing or dirt cheap to get your attention.

As great as the new HP stuff looks, I wouldn't like to be HP, RIM (or Nokia and their potential Meego tablet) right now...tough road ahead building app ecosystem momentum. Who cares if the tablet is slightly better when I can't get my favourite apps.

I find it greatly amusing the roles are reversed from back when Apple struggled on the desktop due to lack of apps while microsoft dominated. My how times change in 10 years. At least this time we might have more than one platform that dominated 90% which is good for everyone.
Paul Buchheit was an acquisition in a sense
I can quit any time I want...

(clicks new)
How did you do that? Last time I tried, it left Windows nearly unbootable.
It's got nothing to do with proportion. Assuming you don't consider suicide a rational choice, the first is always going to result in better outcomes for the individual who screwed up than the second, no matter how dramatic the failure.

I mean, proportion has something to do with how publicly and how strongly you repent for your mistakes, but I don't see any case where it is in your best interest to accept that you are worthless.

To be clear, I can see cases where it may be in other people's best interest to give up on you, but I don't see any case where it's in your own interest to give up on yourself.
My Readability plugin and I disagree with you.
unless they drop the price of the iPad 1, similar to what they do with the iPhone.
The logic doesn't hold up for me.

Are holiday buyers really the same kind of people who will have even heard gadget rumors, let alone coordinate their purchases accordingly? Do we have any reason to think many of them held off this year?

Furthermore, I thought the speed of iOS updates has been a good thing. Why are three iOS targets undesirable or problematic?

It just sounds... flimsy; like someone shopping for justification after they'd latched onto a conclusion.
This may be so, but your homepage is strikingly similar to Yammer's... (above the fold)

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1) http://www.hipchat.com/
2) https://www.yammer.com/
Two iPads in one year is possible, and Gruber has better Apple-watching-skills than most. But I also think Apple is long overdue for a true "AppleTV", an all-in-one product with big screen, deeply integrated with everything else iOS/iTunes. That would also fit well with a late-in-year but in-time-for-Christmas release.
Reddit serves an order (or two?) of magnitude more traffic, and the fact another site is slow does not make HN faster ;)

Btw I've no precise idea about the software stack HN use, I'm just proposing a quality change, that is faster, the mean it is achieved is another (very interesting) topic.
Microsoft AND Intel being effectively missing from the tablet race is staggering. And there are a few reasons why its staggering:

1) Both have known it was coming, maybe longer than anyone else. But got the core requirements all wrong.

2) No one really seems to care.

3) Related to (2), there is no belief that they have anything up their sleeve.

4) Their existing ecosystem, probably a billion units strong, doesn't seem to help their situation at all.

5) Both CEOs seem firmly in place still.

While Intel and MS will make money hand over first for years to come, it does appear to be the end of the consumer market for these two companies. Their focus will be business class computers, workstations, and servers.
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From Steve's original iPhone presentation in 2007: these devices already run Mac OS X. Of course, iOS is a version of Mac OS X that lacks things that mobile devices don't use (such as all of Aqua), and adds things that they do (like Cocoa Touch); and, it runs on ARM chips instead of x86.

But the answer to the article is simple: of course the Mac desktop doesn't belong on very small mobile devices, which is why iOS exists.
average age at mahalo is 27... nuff said
The problem of editing text files, synching them across many machines, versioning them and sharing them via web or email is I think a well-solved problem.
I don't think the market for these things is huge as he suggests. Why would anyone buy a non-Apple touch or tablet device? I can see the argument for smart phones from different vendors, but not for these causal computing touch devices.

And this is coming from someone who has never paid a cent to Apple. I haven't drank the kool-aid but none of these touch devices appear to really be competing with Apple. They look like they are struggling to catch-up. These devices always have some combination of a bigger price tag, buggy interfaces, crappier specs, and/or way less software available.

I'd rather see these other vendors go a completely different direction. Microsoft releasing an iPad clone this late in the game would just be embarrassing. The Kinect was a good response to the Wii. The Playstation Move was not. (I'm making assumptions here since I'm not a gamer. I have no idea whether the Move/Kinect are successful or not.)
1 + 4 + 5 = classic disruption theory. The margins, cost structure, and organizations that have made them so successful so far are what's preventing them from seizing the tablet space. The CEO's are in place because they have made so much money from the old business.
1-2 years cash on hand sounds excessive, though I understand your point. FWIW, I keep approximately 6 months cash on hand and another year's worth in something slightly less liquid but still liquid enough I could get to it in <6 months time. Like a CD ladder.
Though I think Apple is the only one that can pull it off. I'm a bit surprised that they'll be able to keep to a one year product cycle with things like the iPhone/iPad when the rest of the market is hitting a new product every couple weeks. Not that they've been one to match the rest of the market, but a lot happens in a year.

Then again, maybe the biggest lesson out of the touch screen revolution is that its not the hardware - it's the software, and Apple has been certainly setting the pace on that front.
According to this Engadget comparison (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/hp-touchpad-vs-ipad-vs-xo...), competing tablets (TouchPad, Xoom, PlayBook) all have 1GB of RAM. It wouldn't be surprising for the 2nd iPad to have 1GB or more RAM.
Sometimes, even one page is enough to illustrate the problem.

e.g. The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog
It also gave developers a ton of time to adapt their apps to the new form factor. And obviously provided time for new apps. That's huge.
US Military GPS has access to a separate P(Y) signal on the L2 frequency that civilian GPS does not.
Apple's touch strategy is definitely awesome, but the only reason it's spectacular is because of the app store.

HP's new TouchPad won't have that. It will probably do well, but it won't even touch the success of the iPad. Nobody writes apps for WebOS.
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FWIW, iCab/Terra help with this style of browsing a little bit. They don't seem to cache as much and do a better job of handling more background tabs with things waiting to be read.
Agreed but they have so much cash they could buy a company that does tablets well then rebrand/integrate. Never underestimate what a billion dollars can do given the willpower to use it.
I don't really see a way that pageviews could significantly increase without a corresponding increase in uniques. The most obvious reason to see an increase in uniques is to have an increase in new users.

Onboarding new users into the HN culture is relatively easy when you're dealing with a steady but slow intake. I'll admit that I can be an ass on reddit and my highest karma posts have mostly been stupid jokes, but I take things serious on HN because HN presents itself as a serious place.

When you get a significant stream of new users, it can be harder to keep them all in line. If you get a bunch of new folks together voting up their own brand of inane crap, it'll start to pollute the front page. A polluted front page sets a bad tone for newer users, because they think that sort of thing is tolerated.

HN has systems in place to stop this of course, like the ability of some users to kill a post outright and the karmic threshold for downvoting, but there will likely come a time when that isn't enough anymore.

I agree that pageviews are generally a good thing, but HN isn't advertising-funded in the traditional sense (by that I only mean that HN does serve as an advertising platform for YC companies to an extent) so having high pageviews probably isn't high on PG's goals list. HN is pretty unique in that respect, and that's a distinct part of its charm.
Congrats - this looks very impressive.

One tiny nitpick - on the "discover" page, the first item on the left-side menu is "your friends groups", and it should be "your friends' groups".
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The first step is to build a great device, and it looks like HP might be there. It seems to be the best iPad contender yet, stealing that crown from Motorola's zoom from just a few days ago.
By default iOS only uses an in-memory cache for HTTP (including in Safari). Developers have the option of augmenting it with a disk cache if they so choose, but few do.
rich + happy > (rich || happy)

rich is not XOR with happy
That is true, but it could change. It is very easy to write for webos, since it is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript. So a lot of web developers can get into this.
I don't if it's me but the position:fixed layout makes the page scroll noticeably laggy. I'm using Chrome on a 2.0GHz Mac btw.
There's little doubt that in a few years, Android-based tablets will be competitive (and I'm saying this as an iPad lover). Google will make the software work because they want the ad-viewing-and-clicking ecosystem to grow and there will be diminishing growth in hardware expectations so other vendors will catch up. I predict Android tablets with beefier hardware and horsepower and iPads with better screen tech and more polish.
An existing product of their own would constitute competition. So it's not inaccurate what he's said. But I agree, it could have been explained more clearly.
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I am curious what kind of tech stuff you do spend money on. Not into apple, and yet not a gamer, which is one of the few holdouts
Has the FAA said anything about this? I would hope that they would be concerned about the impact on aviation GPS.
"Vibrant 18 bit" display - is that just spec jargon for a cheap TN panel? 6-bits for each R, G, and B? The IPS panel in the iPad is a huge selling point for Apple. It is higher quality than almost any modern laptop screen.
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I don't think that's true. It might have been what they said, but it's February now and we haven't seen any glimpses of iPhone 5 (or whatever) from the FCC, and I'd be willing to bet it launches less than six months from now.
Ask HN: Questions regarding choosing an Open Source License.
Hi HN, how are you? I've been browsing the site for some time but have just registered today. I'm a developer that's been working on a project on a technology that's fairly new but I believe has lot's of potential. I have the intension of doing an open source release and I need to choose a license.

Now, I'm going to release this as open source regardless, because I do believe the technology has a lot of potential and I want this technology to be adopted. But I want to do it in such a way that does not impede the possibility of me building a business around it in the future. So far, I favor the Apache License 2, I have gone through the full text but I don't know how it compares completely with other FOSS Licenses . So I'm looking for some advice.

There is the question of what do I mean by starting a business around it. Just being able to build services or products that use the library.

Questions I have:

. If a (future, hypothetical) client requires that I build a derivative product that is closed source. Can I (as the copyright owner) still use the library?

. Can a (future, hypothetical) competitor, sell derivative works based on the library (that might be open sourced to their clients) and not make them publicly available?

. What other license should I be looking at?

If it might sound like I'm thinking about restricting usage, it's not my intention. But, in an hypothetical future scenario where a business ecosystem develops around this technology I would be starting with a huge disadvantage (I'm geographically isolated, I would have very limited options regarding financing or choice of technical partners) and I want to understand the full implications of choosing whatever license I choose.
A better plan would be: move somewhere so isolated, electronic media can't reach you?

Any plans that don't result in shortened life span?
Is that really that far off from what Zuckerberg did?
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We're not dancing around anything; the price has not been set yet. To put that another way, you currently have as much information as anyone does regarding the price of the course.
I mentioned this in the other submission, but is "vibrant 18 bit" display just spec jargon for a cheap TN panel? 6-bits for each R, G, and B? The IPS panel in the iPad is a huge selling point for Apple. It is higher quality than almost any modern laptop screen.
Note: This article is from 2007.

The author should have kept in mind that Unix is used on everything from mainframes to desktop computers to smartphones.
Other deposits in Swiss bank accounts are from the very kleptocrats who keep their citizens from having any money. Where do you think Kim Jong-il keeps his billions?

(Actually, he probably keeps it in a number of countries, like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands, just in case some of it gets siezed. But the point still stands.)
If nothing else, playing poker has taught me this: The correct answer is always "it depends".
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Ask HN: Should we all start using MongoDB for new projects?
I'm seeing more and more articles on HN with projects that are choosing MongoDB and other NoSQL data structures over MySQL. Is this what the future is going to be, so we might as well start adopting now? What are it's disadvantages if any?
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You're right.

But HP doesn't seem to be hyping or publicizing this at all. No shout-outs to developers. No "here's our SDK, here are some screencasts and tutorials". They exist, but they aren't being advertised at all. Apple has conferences where they get developers excited about working on apps.
I wouldn't count them out. They've ported NT to ARM. The Windows Phone 7 shell, which runs on CE currently, could easily run as a front end to NT/Win8 on smaller devices. The touch device model and API is fully developed in WP7 and Win7. They have all the pieces in place to release a very compelling product--both from the end-user perspective, in the WP7/Metro shell, and the developer perspective, with excellent tools and a solid OS underneath. Whether they'll do it is another question.
In other news, Techcrunch has "well-researched" "journalism" written by "reporters".