skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FSF doesn't like a service that doesn't operate exactly how the FSF thinks they should. Shocking.

I don't take anything they or their pseudo-communist leader say seriously anymore. Back when Stallman started attacking OpenBSD because of their ports tree I knew he had finally lost it.
Does anyone seriously think they are deliberately holding back?
They must have had some room to spare in that case to bother putting in a rear camera.

Look at the screenshot of the camera app:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/camera.html

Notice the placement of the "record" button. Now imagine holding the device up to take a picture with two hands.

Even assuming another app developer will come along and fix this, who's going to use a tablet as a giant, awkward digital camera?
I was looking for that bit of info as well. It seems like if it's not advertised it's not something they're very proud of.
Sounds a lot like...

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

This kind of thinking is what has allowed Apple to sweep up so much damn money, along with ownership of the DAP and tablet markets. Give people what they actually need instead of filling out spec lists to appeal to the nerds.
from the iOS 4 page: "the built-in dictionaries support over 50 languages and dialects"

Hmpf, I just splurged on German-English, French, and Korean dictionaries a few days ago... :-( Still, if this means I can tap a word in any app, say Le Monde, and an explanation/definition pops up, I'll be superhappy. At the moment, one needs to switch back and forth between dictionary and app.
Rails 3 - Dashing to the Finish
Finally HN turned into a political forum. (Tongue in cheek)

The downfall of most parties is due to the fact that they do have no distinct marks anymore. For many socialdemocratic parties in Europe this began with embracing neocon agenda's. Christdemocratic parties turn to nature preservation, ecological parties advocate engagement in afghanistan ...

Tells me that the era of differences is over, calling parties extreme left or right in european parliaments is mostly uninformed bogus.
I disagree. In a company with 10s of thousands of employees it still only takes 1 to leak something. Loyalty is (IMHO) far more important than those other factors (although they too contribute).

Consider a more open example: Google. Internally Google is more open than I believe Apple to be (I have experience with the former, none with the latter other than what I've read).

You may think that a lot of stuff leaks from Google based just on TC stories and so forth and while there are things I'm sure we could manage better, when I joined I was (and still am) amazed at what doesn't leak.

Google doesn't have the same militant, even draconian, approaches to secrecy that Apple does. What they have in common is that most people in both companies (IMHO) are very loyal.
I think you are over simplying. Look at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ for the nuances involved.
The new Twitter really is the worst, and it's not just the Javascript. They've got that hovering topbar with an RGBA shadow and gradient background, which I've personally verified as being a source of much of the slowness on browsers that support these things. You can test it for yourself in any Webkit browser or FireBug — just disable those two CSS properties, and new Twitter feels immediately snappier.

Imagine what Gmail would be like if they went overboard with CSS.
I think Apple will make more profit on their Smart Covers than Motorola, HP and RIM will on their tablets.

http://twitter.com/#!/kawika/status/43024891062124545
No worries, it's always easy to misinterpret text. Until recently there's not been a large amount of malware seen in the wild. A lot of the growth in mobile malware seems to be down to the following factors:

1) Increase in adoption of smartphones, most notably Android and iPhone

2) The general lack of, or poor abilities of software to detect intrusions on said devices

3) The lack of regular updates while relying upon skimmed down versions of major desktop apps and OSes (most notably that you can target android and iphone with the same bug, as shown earlier followed by a clear kernel bug escalation path)

4) The introduction of mobile malware into open source, commercial and blackhat exploit packs.

5) The transferability of monetisation strategies for malicious desktop compromise to the mobile market.

I'm sure I've missed more, but they're the main ones. 5 is the motivating factor, 4,3 and 2 make it easier and 1 unfortunately believe that we're approaching an unexpected variant in Dan Geer's monopoly hypothesis (see http://cryptome.info/0001/cyberinsecurity.htm for details) - and that a duopoly with shared (flawed) code doesn't appear to be much better than a monopoly.

Incidentally that stylesheet bug affects browsers across all main platforms and architectures, across pretty much every class of device (phone, netbook, laptop, desktop, workstation, server on windows, linux, osx, *bsd, Solaris, iOS, Android running on x86, x86_64, ARM and SPARC). If that's not a sign of bad things to come, then I'm not quite sure what is.
Catch.com will bring you some tough competition since they raised a few million in capital and their app is free.

I've tried out a ton of todo list apps on Android theirs was the best.

Syncing with their site is key. I can type out a grocery list at home on my laptop onto their site. Then at the store pull out the phone and its there.

That would be a great feature to offer.
I'm making anywhere from $500-$1500 a month, it really varies based on sales. The biggest leap I want to make is to offer a web version with sync, but that would be a rather large effort.

Ideally I'd like to see it become a Web+Device synced version of Things that actually exists.
How He built a $10,000/mo flash game in his spare time.
No, because the Android tools were exceptionally easy to install and use. The point of this rant is that RIM's tools are the opposite. Anyone can get used to the tools they're given to accomplish a task, the point here is how easy is it to accomplish said getting-used-to.
SaaS Insecurities
But not the ad views.
Dropped in the US too. They're all on clearance.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/clearance...
Apple has never advertised the RAM on an iPhone, iPod, or iPad version.
Not all flash is the same. SD cards and USB sticks use cheap, slow, high-density flash manufactured with older processes. The A4/A5 flash is also integrated into the same package as the CPU(s). Most analysts estimate the flash as a significant part of the overall cost of iOS devices. Yes, it is market segmentation as well, but that extra flash still isn't free.
One thing for which I have high admiration for apple is that they never give competitors the space to breathe ever they are quite ahead in the game. :)

The most exciting thing is that they kept the price same.
There are thousands of applications in the App store that implement a 'time' bomb without reading the clock. If you hide your payload in the code that runs level X of your executable, or that runs when a user gets the 'completed 100000 lines in Tetris, Apple's manual testing will not find it.

For the same reason I doubt that 'insufficient code coverage' can be a ground for not accepting a binary in the store.
You gotta wonder though, how many people are touched each day by the work of Zuckerberg versus the work of Assange.
I don't disagree they they must have their act together to support such big online launches. But for cache busting, isn't it just a simply matter of renaming resources and having your framework + deploy scripts manage the rest for you?

most sites use assets with additional query parameters added to keep them fresh (i.e. file?1234566778.js). Apple looks like they are adding some parameters into the filenames themselves.

It probably also involves cache-control settings as mentioned, but I think file renaming is the more reliable method of cache busting.
I can feel you on the stealing aspect (though with the optional free engraving you can really limit the resell value), but they are not easier to damage than desktops. There are no moving parts. Unless you drop it in a sink, you're going to be OK (that would be ill advised with a regular PC too). The software is also incredibly hard to screw up, which lowers IT support costs.
The author does have ambition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ventura

He's a successful author and columnist. Hopefully, this now gives him the right to say a lot of low-paying jobs are shitty ones that barely treat you as a human being, and not everyone is able to work their way through them, despite how much fortitude they may otherwise have.

This thread is full of ridiculous ad hominems. I don't think your comment even makes any sense. So you both used to work a string of dead-end jobs. While you're willing to note that you, yourself, ended up becoming an entrepreneur, you're not willing to grant this author the same possibility that perhaps he simply started out with a poor lot in life like yourself, and ended up also working his way up.
Looking for product demos for day show at SXSW
Hey everyone,

My startup, GigMaven, is throwing a day show at Emo's on March 15th during SXSW. We're looking for product demos and I wanted to open it up to the community to see if anyone would be interested in presenting. This would be a great time to show off your project to a lot of people. We also have 12 bands performing and the venue's capacity is around 1500, so should be an awesome time. Please email demos@gigmaven.com if you're interested. Thanks!

Best,
Howard

Here are the details about the event:

GigMaven presents: The Ides of March Day Party
Indoor and outdoor stages at Emo's
w/ Empires, Gary Lucas, Heaven, Like Diamonds, Megafauna, MiniBoone, The Spinto Band, Thomas Wynn and the Believers and more!

Tuesday, March 15 / No cover / 12pm - 6pm

From the quirky, dreamy melodies of The Spinto Band, to the raucous charm of Brooklyn's MiniBoone, GigMaven will bring the party to Emo's all day from noon to six. Our party will feature bands from Chicago, New York, LA, Austin and more.

GigMaven is an online platform that connects professional musicians with live music venues and allows them to book gigs online. Our site features over 10,000+ musical artists and 3,000+ live music venues in the United States, many of which are located in the NY, LA and Chicago metropolitan areas.
Yes they did:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/clearance...
Lots of dyed leathers have a tendency to take scratches, scuffs, etc., and generally weather over time. A lot of folks love this effect, especially on furniture, shoes, jackets, and other items made of leather. Other folks either don't care for the effect, or simply haven't owned leather items long enough for the distressing to kick in. My guess is that Apple is preparing that latter set of consumers for some sort of weathering/distressing over time.
Finding your own external, visible-to-the-internet IP. You're almost always behind some router these days, so using ifconfig or whatever is pretty useless.
I’m guessing that was ironic enthusiasm – more applause for the joke, really, than for the color.
These are the new "iPhone bumpers:" accessories with low cost of production and incredible margins. Apple is very, very good at doing this.
How Dr. Seuss Helped Breed A Generation of Entrepreneurs
Rendering sprites with WebGL on JSGameBench
I do not see how Goldfarb's settlement with the SEC serves as evidence of malfeasance by SCO or misdeeds by Microsoft. Though it certainly does make good ad hominem.
I imagine it will be most useful in FaceTime when you want to show the other person what you're seeing and also be able to see them at the same time.
Palantir is on the Radar of Anonymous and Congress
The iPad 2 is 9.7" diagonal, just like the iPad 1.
They surely have as least as much memory as the iphone4—but probably not more than that
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I'd argue that everything we buy is an experience, some are just longer term than others.
Is this Steve Jobs signing off?

Looking at Engadget's coverage, the tone of Steve's closing seems very different from any past event I can recall. It's always about Apple and about the Product. Jobs is very focused and doesn't "accidentally" include information in his presentations that isn't deliberate.

Why then would he include that slide depicting the intersection of technology and liberal arts? Why bother using a product launch to make a mission statement: "This is worth repeating. It's in Apple's DNA that technology is not enough. It's tech married with the liberal arts and the humanities. Nowhere is that more true than in the post-PC products. Our competitors are looking at this like it's the next PC market. That is not the right approach to this. These are post-PC devices that need to be easier to use than a PC, more intuitive."
edit (Commenters have pointed out that the slide was used in the iPad launch as well. Sorry, chalk that up to fuzzy memory on my part.)

That doesn't sound like a product pitch to me. It sounds like a going-away message to Apple's employees. It's a public reminder of what Apple stands for, even without Jobs at the helm.

Jobs also highlighted very prominently the scope of apple beyond the stage presenters: "I'd like the teams that worked on this to stand up -- give them a round of applause. And as always, I'd like to thank everyone's families. They support us and let us do what we need to do. They make it possible for us to work our tails off."

Perhaps I'm reading more into this than necessary, but this change in tone appears to be significant. It's the first steps to mapping out a post-Jobs Apple. A public recognition that the success or failure doesn't hinge upon one man's presence, but instead the atmosphere and culture that was developed under his tenure.

I'd like to be wrong, but this may be of the last times we see Steve Jobs take the stage, and I think he knows it.
With that in mind, let's look ahead to what's on the menu for this year: four adaptations of comic books. One prequel to an adaptation of a comic book. One sequel to a sequel to a movie based on a toy. One sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a movie based on an amusement-park ride. One prequel to a remake. Two sequels to cartoons. One sequel to a comedy. An adaptation of a children's book. An adaptation of a Saturday-morning cartoon. One sequel with a 4 in the title. Two sequels with a 5 in the title. One sequel that, if it were inclined to use numbers, would have to have a 7 1/2 in the title.

Was he talking about Hollywood or Silicon Valley? Hard to tell anymore.
That's not too bad really... If you think you can live on it and whatever savings you have, are young, don't have many commitments, and can dedicate the time, then I say go for the risk.
I can see this working to compare one school district to another or maybe even one large school to another, but I would balk at applying it to individual teachers. You can’t assume that after all the measurable factors in your statistical model are taken into account, the only remaining input to performance is the skill of the teacher.

And even if the model was good at measuring teaching performance on average, that could just mean that out of every hundred teachers evaluated, two got higher alphas than they deserved and two got lower alphas.
Nothing a little good polish can't take care of.
Apple works on a yearly refresh cycle. They release new versions of their products every year at about the same time. You can expect a new iPad around the same time next year and I expect the iPhone 5 in the next couple months.
Whenever measurements are involved one should diligently research the values expected and optimize accordingly.

If you care about such things as getting a good performance review you should know that it measures likability far more than productivity.

If one of the KPIs on the CEO's dashboard is hits to the website, you should drive that up, if it's acquisitions then drive that up.

Performance reviews and KPIs are highly instructional as to what you should be optimizing for. It's the company telling you what they value most. If you find yourself in disagreement with the things being measured it's probably an indication that the value systems you use and your company uses are out of alignment. It's usually much easier to find a company that shares your values than change your companies' values to suit your own.
Bwahaha, there's a huge market of entry-level workers in all kinds of fields (software being just one of them) where people work essentially for free (unpaid internships or internships with a small stipend). It's kind of disgusting!
>The tragedy of this seems to be that we're running out of stuff for people to do.

I'm sorry but this is just wrong. There is no end to human want and desire. As long as there is this want there will be plenty of stuff for people to do.
Japan Phone Makers See Opportunity in Android
Well, they don't have any serious competition at the moment. Why push prices up or profit margins down with a high res screen when they can introduce one at a later (and cheaper) date?
Do you realize that when your only goal is to gain karma points the overall quality of HN suffers, thus decreasing the value of each karma point?

All of your posts are just tech/startup gossip. Kinda boring, no?
The "MentalPlex" April Fool's Joke would have been funnier if it had automatically entered "porn" into the search box after a few seconds.
really? with 15 millions units sold in 9 months and 90% market I wonder if editors still think that tablets can be a lucrative platform

EDIT: I'm not being sarcastic, but my opinion is not related to the technology. I'm talking about the potentials of tablets as a new media+ads distribution platform and that number doesn't seem so impressive to me, so far.
Hi fogus, beat me to the punch with the submission.

This article made me laugh just because lately I've been thinking about how I miss the harsh directness of C.

I'm slowly deciding that my resume should have the following line:

Languages: C, Common Lisp, Javascript

One to tell the world you understand the foundations, one to tell the world you understand the lambdas, and one to tell the world you understand the web.

Actually, this sounds like a decent list for "kata" programming, a project big enough to take three or four weeks on the side in each on an alternating schedule would be pretty effective in keeping your chops up.
> The A4/A5 flash is also integrated into the same package as the CPU(s)

Really? That would be by far the most aggressive die stacking I've ever heard of, if true. I thought it was soldered to the motherboard in stacks of 2-4 dice.
Jobs also highlighted for the first time the scope of apple beyond the stage presenters [...]I'd like to thank everyone's families

This is not true. He has done this at more than one WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference).
Examining PPC vs. SEO
Bad Interfaces
You can hold the iPad the other way around so that the camera is on the top, away from your hands.
Applying a rigid set of a dozen statistics to human beings always misses the mark in a ton of cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

The question is whether it's better than the current system...

Without objective measurements, how could we ever answer this question?
What competitors are shipping their tablets by March 11? Last I saw for RIM was April. Loaded question perhaps, but the "iPad killers" based on Honeycomb aren't out en masse yet.
> Jobs also highlighted for the first time the scope of apple beyond the stage presenters: "I'd like the teams that worked on this to stand up -- give them a round of applause. And as always, I'd like to thank everyone's families. They support us and let us do what we need to do. They make it possible for us to work our tails off."

He does that at almost every event.
I get on average about a message every 3 months from recruiters looking for 'fresh meat'. What I think they're doing is they're looking at friends on facebook, then their networks and making the assumption that the person will have a gmail account, then guessing what it might be. Sometimes I'm cc'd into variants of potential spelling like firstname.lastname@gmail, flastname@gmail etc. but most of the time it's a bcc. If you bear in mind that my profile has a distinctly odd name which used to be a googlewhack and that most of my friends friends on facebook are in the UK and in the same industry (I use multiple profiles for multiple purposes).
Wow! That's the most impressive point-missing I've seen in a long time! Way to go!
"As gift card companies vie for consumer dollars, Plastic Jungle, Cardpool have been consistently innovating around the gift card model." - Am I the only that had to re-read that sentence multiple times to work out they meant "Plastic Jungle AND Cardpool"?

After all that, they don't mention Plastic Jungle again in the article at all, so I'm not sure why it's even slipped in there.

Also, are TC taking the Demand Media approach now, and just doing as many articles as it takes until one popular one hits? There's a near identical article posted a couple of weeks ago. (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/cardpool-wants-to-buy-and-s...)

There were also two articles about Cardpool's "reveal the online code before sending physical card" feature (http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/gift-card-marketplace-cardp...) (http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/cardpool-speeds-up-gift-car...).

It seems if anything, they're making a special effort to make sure Cardpool and Plastic Jungle are mentioned together as much as possible (including the SEO-style URL "gift-card-marketplace-cardpool-plasticjungle" instead of their usual article-relevant URLs).
More likely a proxy server issue; make sure any HTTP proxy you use is bypassed for localhost and 127.0.0.1. If that doesn't work, come visit us at http://support.rstudio.org!
Why then would he include that slide depicting the intersection of technology and liberal arts?

He did the same thing last year at the original iPad launch, with same phrase (here's the top hit in google I could find for a picture of the slide):

http://submittedforyourperusal.com/2010/02/10/the-intersecti...
Apple is well known for coming up with ten prototypes, bringing it down to three potential shipping products, and then selecting just one.

You can be certain that somewhere in mid 2010, there was a higher resolution version of the iPad 2 that was either in the first group of ten, or possibly even down selected to the final group of three. For reasons of cost, power consumption, or, perhaps competitive pressure (Nobody else was coming out with a tablet with a high resolution, so they could hold off until the iPad 3, or possibly 4) that was not the product you saw today.
That's a classic. My old pioneering blog, camworld, is in there a few times. But I sold the domain several years ago. It's a porn site now. Oh well, the times. They do change...
might want to remove that ip, regardless of if it is yc or not.
Wait, is this sarcastic or serious? 15 million units is a lot for something that did not exist before it was released.
Android Market has a 'flag' button that lets you specify, eg, that 'Wolverine' isn't anything to do with Marvel but uses Marvel characters and artwork. They ignore this and similar copyright infringement flags.

You have to own the content to file a DMCA complaint.
Thunderbolt is actually based on the Mini DisplayPort specification. If anything, Apple will add this to the iPad, but it will look quite different than USB.

The next iPad, rumored for September of this year, is more likely to include major new features, including a higher-resolution display and more connectivity (i.e. Thunderbolt).