skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I accept that I could be doing it wrong, but my general idea is to buy a fresh license for every site that I create :)
It obviously is exactly the same because the iPad uses a laptop screen. (It has a higher quality IPS and not the usual TN panel [1] but I don’t think that matters a great deal. IPS panels have better color reproduction and better viewing angles, that’s the only difference to lower quality LCD panels.) The iPad screen has even a similar number of pixels per inch compared to current laptops. (A 15" laptop with a resolution of 1680×1050 has, like the iPad, about 130 ppi.)

As far as readability goes, it’s probably currently the best color video screen you can get in the market [2], you can probably do better if all you need is grayscale without video.

[1] You can get laptops with IPS panels but they are pretty exotic and more expensive.

[2] As in: the best technology for the job (compared to, for example, e-ink), not the best LCD panel in the market.
I almost always prefer some kind of balanced tree to a hash table, because no matter the original specifications, sometime during the development of a program I usually need the elements in order.
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That seems odd, you can access appspot but not the www domain itself? And you can not access the www domain via a Twitter redirect, but you can access it to get to the login page?
An exception can be found for every rule, in just about anything.

Nitpicking specific examples and then saying "oh, well this disproves it" proves nothing. 99 out of a 100 times, blaming the user isn't the right move. For the sake of brevity, I used ever and always.
I remember reading about Steve Roberts building chording keyboards into his "handlebars" on his Winnebiko years ago. Since he had well more than 2^5 bits using both hands[1], he was able to assign macros that helped significantly with his effective typing speed.

Englebart says that his layout is not intended for speed typing, with the typical trained typer being able to type 30-50wpm. He observed that typing speed on conventional keyboards does not have a strong correlation with typing speed on his chording layout. Sight-reading piano players have a bit of an advantage here, of course.

I've always wanted one of the Twiddlers, and am kind of excited they're back on the market, but I'd vastly prefer a wireless version. I've also been looking forward to the release of the FrogPad. It would be nice to have a better-than-touchscreen keyboard for emails on the iPad or iPhone.

[1] I can't remember the exact layout now. If it used all ten fingers, or if it had multiple positions for, say, thumbs, à la the BAT keyboard, it's gone from my memory. Regardless, it used both hands.
Here's an anecdote from the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240461

On another note, why do you think lisp isn't more widely used?
Just by moving stuff around. Addons to the tab bar, bookmarks to the address bar. I used an addon to compress the menu and moved it to the tab bar as well. I then removed the empty menu and bookmarks toolbars. I'm using Firefox 4. Oh and having no window decorations helps too.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/compact-menu-...
The main question I have is when-will/should projects begin moving to 3.x?
Ask HN: Will there be any Facebook killer in the near future?
A friend of mine approached me with a nice social idea. I am technical person, I liked the idea and I genuinely believe it can be disruptive (but that just me). But then looking on the growth of Facebook and their armors I am bit skeptical about our ability to execute something this big especially when we have no history of execution. When we talked with others, we sounded so naive in fact a laughing matter. Coming back to main question,

Will there be any Facebook killer/rival in the near future? (Assuming someone else in a MIT dorm or in a remote African safari is trying to come up with that).

If yes, How much important you think time of entry will be if they have to succeed? Do you think hype surrounding Facebook can kill some potential entrants due to poor adaptation?

As for as my tiny world is considered, I think no one actually seriously tried to challenge the Facebook not even Google or Twitter. Same goes for Google. Problem of scale is so big that it is near impossible to take on Google or Facebook.
Would someone to care to chime in on an estimate as to when it would be advisable for amateurs to start employing 3.x?

How far along are the libraries and the documentation/tutorials?
His taunts don't even make sense. It seems like he is taking offense to people criticizing his story anonymously, but the way he is asking people for their real names comes off as strange and kind of creepy. And, he isn't addressing any of the (IMO valid) complaints they have about his story.
The source of the article: http://www.conceivablytech.com/5746/products/google-may-kill...
If you're looking for a one-handed chorded keyboard on which to type, the BAT has been around for many years: http://www.infogrip.com/product_view.asp?RecordNumber=12
in lisp one ends up reading code by indentation - much like python. the parenthesis fade into the background after just a couple of days of using lisp. matter of fact i use a light blue background in emacs, and make the parenthesis a light gray. barely see them.
If you delete something on your Dropbox folder, it still exists on Dropbox.
In my unscientific survey, MacBook Pro's outrank iPads, which outrank generic Windows laptops in cafe's.

Moreover, in a further unscientific survey, paperback books outrank hardcover books, who's usage surpasses the Kindle and Nook, combined.

And I live in San Francisco. Moreover, the people who bring any of these items don't seem to drink their coffee! feigned shock
HTML5 Boilerplate is great if you just work on a few projects, because it is easier to delete things than remember them.

If you work on new projects fairly frequently, it's better to develop your own boilerplate as a starting point. This is what I do and it saves a bunch of time.

So I understand this author's complaints. If you make web sites (not web apps) there is quite a bit in HTML5 Boilerplate that just isn't for you.

All that said, my biggest complaint is that it is good. So good that it has probably meant that other, more project-type specific HTML5 boilerplates don't seem to exist.

edit: A cool tool for HTML5 boilerplate might be a "build custom download" similar to what jQuery UI has.
At home I do carry it everywhere. When I go out, I have a 10.1" netbook bag which holds my iPad, keyboard, camera, charging cables, and earbuds. It's easy to carry around everywhere even to resuarants and the local B&N store.

I only use the keyboard when I plan to do a lot of writing. Right now I'm just using the software keyboard.
Try the gentle status bar extension. (Available in the Safari extension gallery.)
On mac, I've had persistent problems with the live stream directly on the AJ site, but youtube also carries it:

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

(2nd video box on the page)
One interesting thing from the "What's new in 3.2?"[1] page:

After the 3.2 release, there are plans to switch to Mercurial as the primary repository. This distributed version control system should make it easier for members of the community to create and share external changesets. See PEP 385 for details.

1- http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html
> The iPad has replaced a laptop or desktop for all casual browsing (I typed this comment on mine) and a lot of media consumption. It's great for technical books. And I play games on it.

I live in a large city in the UK, and throughout the past year I've only seen two iPad's. I wouldn't even remotely say that the iPad has "replaced the laptop" in any way, shape or form. When the iPhone was released it was near impossible to not see it outside, whereas the average iPad user will keep theirs at home.

Even if the figures are good I really cannot see the casual user deciding to ditch their laptop for the iPad, and I'd go as far as to say that the iPad has been a huge disappointment.
I would assume that new customers with app-less phones would be the most eager to start filling up their phones with apps---isn't that the point of buying a smartphone?
true, but i still find the loop macro confusing.
"it's highly unlikely that someone else will buy it for the same price, since you probably tailored the domain to your business"

I am not sure I agree with it. It seems against the notion that multiple people are working on your business idea at a given time. If bit.ly decided to not buy this domain, do you think it is unlikely someone else would not buy it by now regardless of existence of url shortener?

Maybe I missed your point and am completely off.
We've had [Modern] Perl dialects for a very long time now, they are called PHP, Ruby, and arguably, Python.

With all due respect, none of PHP, Ruby, or Python come close to Modern Perl in quality or reliability.
15 Million Ipads sold in one year would seem to handily contradict whatever argument you're trying to make. People love tablet pcs, because they simplify computing for them ... a lot of people on hacker news don't get that, because using computers (in all their delicious complexity) is generally second nature for us.
Imagine, however, if Chouinard had sold his piton business to some generic manufacturing concern. They would not have had the creativity to imagine "clean climbing" methods, nor would they ever have been personally inspired to keep the mountains in a pristine state.

You could tell a similar horror story about what would have happened if anyone had bought Google in say 2001 or 2002. The ethic of "clean search results" would probably never have become the industry standard.
I think the author gets tripped up in the classic "all users look like me" cognitive trap.

Um, no he doesn't. Did you miss the title?: "Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore". This "all users look like me cognitive trap" line of yours is bullshit. The guy was only talking about himself, his own uses.

Also, I'm tired of seeing people like you say, "the title should've been this"... "the title should've been that". This title was fine and more than appropriate. Besides that, he can give his article whatever title he damn well pleases.
In that case I would expect to see more laser related articles.
Do they enforce the style guide on VCS checkin?
Or is anyone of you enforced to do so?

(FYI: I'm talking about VCS-guards, who prevent checkin's, if they do not comply with a style guide. Maybe someone can run a poll on that topic.)
Close! It's actually Xmonad on CrunchBang Linux and I'm using the Compact Menu addon. There is no status bar, I just placed the icons to the tab bar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Because that can be said more succinctly. It is even easier to read as there is less to read, which I realize is mostly subjective.
I think the better question is, who really cares? Everyone is already using Facebook for what Facebook excels at. It's like gasoline-powered cars, now. There are too many people invested in Facebook, and using Facebook, for something to come along and do the exact same thing that Facebook does, but in a different way, and expect people to just move over to it.

A Facebook killer won't come in the form of something similar to Facebook, it'll come in the form of something more time consuming and easier to waste time on than Facebook. It'll be something that lets people do something that they enjoy, and do it every hour or so with a different result. (here, i'm referencing what I think most people do in FB, and that's just browse people's pictures) It won't kill Facebook by being a better Facebook, it'll kill it by attracting people's attention elsewhere.
Okay, then I agree. Lispers use macros sparingly. But not having them at all pinches me terribly and I wish I could explain that better. Decorators don't help much with that pinching :)

I mean the size of the industry that programmed computers at all, not the size of the industry that programmed in Lisp.
aggregatedmarks.setdefault(name,[]).append(marks)

See http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/typesmapping.html
That's nice, I didn't know about that, thanks. I'll definitely be using it the next time I have to use Python.

It's a little bit unsatisfying, since all of the context has to be wrapped in a single object, but that does cover a common class of Lisp macro use cases.
Heartily agree on all counts. Learning new languages I am definitely not opposed to. I don't have a "pet stack." I just want professional experience for when I move to more, ahem, lucrative locales.

Thanks for responding.
This isn't true, consider:

if 1 < 2:
c = 2
else:
c = 3

print c

(I'm retarded and don't know how to do comments that have new lines in the, but hopefully you catch the drift. The 'print c' is at 0 indentation)
I live in Fairfax, Virginia. I've been searching online to find angel investors around my area but couldn't find much.
Thank you for sharing - sorry that happened :(
I suspect that the author references HTML5Boilerplate in an inflammatory way in order to get us talking about it.

I view the HTML5Boilerplate as a cross-browser-reset and sensible defaults for everything else. If those defaults don't work for the author, he could fork it on github and change them.
I hate the name (because I don't think it's shameful) but this gives a good idea of where things are:

http://python3wos.appspot.com/

For most people, the docs/tutorials aren't that big a deal because the differences aren't that great. If you're just beginning I would say read up on the differences between 2.x and 3 so you're aware of it but wait until the majority of projects are ported.
Good for Arrington that AOL bought them when they were turning to garbage. Bad for AOL that they didn't see it coming.

I wonder why anyone even reads TC these days.
I don't know if you folks are aware of this but Steve Gillmor in his previous career was a record producer — he worked with everyone from Firesign Theater to Grace Jones. That's why is writing is so filled with references to music. You can say what you want about Techcrunch but Gillmor is one of the writers they have who is still worth reading. He doesn't give a damn about chasing page views and if you read in between the lines he often has something interesting to say. And his charm is that he doesn't give a damn about the trolls in the comments section.

Also each generation of technology has its publication: In a sense if Techcrunch is feeling dated it's because we're entering a new era. Once upon a time in the web 1.0 era we were reading Slashdot, F*cked Company, InfoWorld, MacWeek, the Silicon Alley Reporter a few others that are pretty much non-existent today. If Techcrunch is now dead so is Web 2.0 in a sense (and other brands of that era like SXSW, Mashable, etc.).
Oh hey, someone who mocks the use of antidepressants. I suffer from congenital depression. Zoloft helps me to be a functioning, productive member of society. It has prevented many deaths from suicide. People like you prevent people from seeking help because they buy into the "just harden up" bullshit.

Should people with diabetes just kick the insulin habit? Please.
The points he raises are the reasons I never liked tablets. Sure, I respect the iPad, and I'd kind of like to have one, but for what? Productivity? Laptop. Web surfing? Laptop. Movies? Laptop or TV. Games? PS3. It simply isn't good enough at anything to make me want one. I still respect it, but I've never been able to get behind the idea of buying one. I've been counselling people to grab the Air, as it's a fantastic solution for some non-technical frequent travellers I know, but I've never told anyone to get an iPad. I simply just don't get the point.
>Now it’s Sunday morning and I’m ten minutes past my deadline.

And now we know why.
well I must admit, if I worked for TC and had to deal with their comment crew, I'd probably be firing rounds my now.
Interesting idea, but it's rather odd that the keystroke for P is pressing <SPACE>, but the keystroke for <SPACE> is a four character combination when <SPACE> should be its own chord. While the binary incrementing keystroke combination is somewhat logical, I would imagine that a more frequency-based assignment would ultimately be more successful as muscle memory is far more important than remembering that the chord for V is binary+1 of the chord for U.
What’s your evidence for that conclusion? The iPad is selling much better than expected. You can’t yet buy other, similar devices but they will be coming to the market in large numbers very soon.

I agree that this is too little information to say anything definitive about the future of the tablet market but it is definitely not enough information to conclude that the iPad is not a “game changer”. Many people would, based on the phenomenal success of the iPad alone, argue that it is most definitely a game changer. I’m not prepared to make that statement just yet but it seems pretty weird to me to conclude the exact opposite, at least at this point in time.
And the companion review http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ kind of completes the cycle.
Is the main advantage of Tornado that when you have a site open in the browser, it is less expensive for the site to push updates to the browser?
There are a fair number that do this. I've been using Invisible Status Bar: http://dbergey.github.com/
Which city? I've seen a whole bunch of people in London standing on street corners using their iPads.

Granted they do look pretty silly...

But I would certainly not say that the iPad has been a 'huge disappointment'; not for Apple, and not for the consumer. Or did you mean for you personally?
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It also makes life easier if you like to have several code windows open side by side while you work. I got introduced to this approach a few years ago by a colleague and I've loved it ever since (I actually use vertical splits in Vim FWIW; same difference...).
So you're saying Arrington sold at peak money?
"The, And, If, Love, courage, fear"

"If you're taking an exam, a #2"
Very nice article. But who else thinks the arrows should be drawn the other way?

In his diagrams, they indicate depends on. I think it would be more natural to draw them in the direction of the data flows - which cell each cell supports. That way the computation is visualized running in the direction of the arrows, rather than the reverse direction.
Demise of Blockbuster, Borders and Google?
Sorry, a bit off-topic, but is using https enough or is two factor preferable. I use two factor in LastPass but only https log on in gmail.
Here is my setup with a comparison to yours:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/388822/setup.png

I put the start bar on the left. My chrome window also seems to be more compact. The vertical space extends all the way to the bottom of the screen (no bars).
Another savvy computer user goes on the internet and declares that he prefers laptops to tablets ... shocking.

The ipad, isn't made with people like the author in mind ... they're made for people who generally find using laptops a PITA (yes ... there are Millions of people like this).

The other market is for the people who get tired of working on their laptops from time to time (and thats where the author seems to fit). What you'll find with this group is people who try to do things with the ipad but realize that they simply prefer being on laptops (probably a lot of us here on Hacker News).

And for everyone of those you'll have people like me ... the ipad has filled a great gap for me, which I'll call leisure computing ... sitting in my bed on Sunday mornings watching netflix movies, mindlessly browsing facebook and twitter ... responding to work emails before I hit the sack at night ... showing presentations, images etc during meetings instead of having to lug around my laptop.

I thought the ipad would fail spectacularly when it came out, but its success has made it clear to me that there is a world of computer users out there who simply do not view computing the way I do, and not only do they want a simplified computing experience they are willing to pay very good money for a for it ... we on HN would do well to not lose sight of that.
I think with Gaddafi he never really bothered to hide behind a fig leaf of democracy or even legitimacy with other governments. The Libyan government was always a lot more totalitarian than the Egyptian, and didn't really pretend.

I have a friend who has worked in Libya and has nothing nice to say about it. He told me that the airport is still littered with the wrecks of planes from Reagans' bombing in the 1980's. Whether they are still there as a reminder of the 'imperial west' or because the Libyans are too lazy to clean them up is not known. Having seen the amount of litter in pictures of Libya, it's harder still to say for sure.

On the flip-side I really hope Libya becomes an open-access free and secular state in my lifetime. There is some really cool architectural/historical things in Libya that is effectively off-limits to anyone but the most intrepid and determined traveller. Just imagine the ability to take a trip through the mediterranean middle east without having constant border issues, government minders, etc etc. I suppose it's a somewhat selfish view, but I bet a few of the locals wouldn't mind a more organised tourist trade.
Just because it’s something new and unlike a laptop doesn’t mean that it doesn’t solve an existing problem.
Anybody done or know of any performance comparisons? Particularly intrigued by:

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#multi-threading

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093...
Interesting analogy and generalization, I never thought in that way. I think that's true, people are always looking for interesting new ways to invest & waster their time. And certainly a clone of Facebook can not take on Facebook anyway.
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who trusts a hosting company called peachydandy.com??
Some background:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-...

The reasoning was a bit odd (right at the end). For example:

> First, git's Windows support is the weakest out of the three DVCSs being considered...

True... kinda. In my experience it sucks unless you use Cygwin. I'm not sure how much that matters however. There is excellent tool support for Git on Windows, namely Jetbrains' IntelliJ (with the Python module) or PyCharm. Version control integration is one of those things that Jetbrains excels at with nobody else really coming close.

But, then again, the vim/Emacs Python crowd (over IDEs) are still pretty strong.

I'd be interested to know what the "core developers" disliked about Git too.
Where the hell are you getting that from? Read what's written, not what you want to see. I said America is on a happy kick, not that such drugs don't work or that they're unnecessary. There's an obsession with appearing happy that hides and / or causes a lot of problems, including depression.
What are some age trends (in general do younger developers get into ruby/django/python for building web applications? )

Vs using something like VB.net
When I bought my phone, I swore I wouldn't buy any apps. I don't know why, but I just thought it was something I had to tell myself. 2 years later, well...you know how it goes.
I advise that people flag his creepy as shit comments as the inappropriate comments they are.
Yes, I clicked the link. I see no reason why so-called boilerplate includes JavaScript, <meta> tags, and a whole bunch of CSS.

If you want to display non-ASCII characters, use XHTML5 -- trying to get Unicode working portably in HTML5 isn't worth the grey hair.
Yes, but Stack Overflow's signup screen takes more thinking than most sites (by virtue of being different, not to mention its complexity). Amazon's signup is far simpler and it does not seem to be terribly insecure.
Yeah, I know. I simply don't have the time to read between the lines so much in order to find whether or not it's worth reading. There are myriad other tech writers covering the same beat without requiring all that work.