skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existing iPad Keyboard dock supports connecting power and an external display through the 30-pin connector on the back. I'm guessing it'll work with the new HDMI connector as well, although I'm not sure.

I don't think making the iPad a trackpad for an external display would work well, however, since the iPad does not have a cursor and the GUI is not designed to be used with one (try the iPhone/iPad simulator on a Mac to see how it works). Making it work as a 1-1 mapping from the iPad to the external display is what the current HDMI connector gives you anyway.
Not those same people. Right now a tablet is either `the cheapest computer' with appeal to low-end market or `the ultraportable' with appeal to some of the middle- and high-end market.

In a few years a tablet could well become `the powerful, ergonomic and ultraportable computer', with appeal to whole middle- and high-end market. That's the unwritten assumption behind the article: that technical progress will allow tablets to go the PC way -- decades of domination on wide market, rather than the netbook way -- cornered to low-end market, little market dynamics after few years.

Of course, Apple knows how to sell upgraded hardware to the same people every year or two -- but you can't have the whole market work that way.
I don't think you can be a part of too many networks

Sure you can.

The opportunity cost is being part of a network that you get more out of. Or building/maintaining your personal network. Or working on something productive.
Some of us appreciate bullshit-free communication.
New Beta: LikeJournal - Social Bookmarking for the Facebook Like Button
Experimental Study on Web Asynchronicity
Yahoo? Can Somebody Explain The Bear In The Next Cubical?
For some context, folks on twitter are trying to figure it out.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flipzagging

What the hell is a bear doing in Yahoo's Offices?
A great Todo Reminder/Google Task Enhancer in your android device
"You don’t need permission."

I think that says it all.
Look at this presentation/PDF from stanford which shows what happened within the reactors. Look at THE LAST slide in which is says that the entire core of reactor 4 was outside the containment vessel at the time of the disaster for inspection and was housed in the cooling pond. It states that it believes the reactor went into full meltdown in fresh air

The materials from reactor 4 core appear to be completely dissipated into the atmosphere, and that we are really really not hearing the truth from japan.

http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6615/March21_JapanSeminar.p...
Integration Testing Braintree’s Transparent Redirect with Rails and Cucumber
Introduction to Bullet Graphs
OpenSSL memory use in Node.js
thanks for your note, just added some text to the main window to clear it up.
For some context, folks on twitter are trying to figure it out.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=flipzagging

What the hell is a bear doing in Yahoo's Offices?
Too much space, going back to old way.
Ruby-bigquery-cl – integrate your Ruby system to the Google BigQuery web service
The article defines punk (in general) as a deviant subculture that parents are afraid of.

Perhaps the general decline of punk can be attributed to modern parents being much less afraid than parents in the 70s. Cyberpunk isn't really exciting when your parents all have iPhones.
Google Said to Be Possible Target of U.S. FTC Antitrust Probe
This isn't the first time that France doesn't understand digital security. Their lawmakers seem to have a consistent blind spot for these kinds of issues.

In the 90's I remember there was a restriction on using >40 bit crypto keys in France. There was even a "You're in France now" attack to Windows (95?) that deceived the OS that you were in France, switching to a lower keysize immediately.

(also France has this crazy three strikes out law for copyright violations)
does it being an excellent resource for entrepreneurs and other people harm it?

Who does Sprouter have using it?
Ditto with $50.00 blown for squat. Fairly well targeted I thought.

It wasn't just that the clicks were expensive (also around ~$.45, interestingly). Our site is free to use, with no log in, and we have at most a 20% bounce rate on any one day using adwords. The facebook users had a 77% bounce rate, and those that didn't bounce stayed around for almost no time, clicking on an average of 1.5 pages as against 7.7 for our site average. They also typed in really lousy queries, if they didn't just press 'search'.
Gee, is the nutshell really so small that it can only include your perspective of the debate, rather than the other side's views, or those of moderates?

In fact, the piracy is theft misrepresentation is a core maxim of the pro-industrial stance on copyright enforcement. it is precisely because people view it as dishonest deprivation (theft) that people have a problem with nonmarket, unlicensed sharing of cultural elements.

Yet such positions are rarely precisely defined (and this is true of the other side as well, mind you) - if we accept lost sales as a valid consideration, where does one stop? A slow browser in a newsagent's shop is chased out, and puts down a potential purchase. or isn't chased out, and enjoys - but doesn't pay for - several articles. An influential reviewer, having a bad day, communicates his distaste for a work without tempering his words; at a stroke, ten thousand potential sales are 'lost', the artist is deprived ten thousand times over. Copyright on a work expires (75 years after the death of the artist) - the artist is (sort of?) deprived (or rather, his estate is, or he was, back in the day).
People are being deprived of something totally artificial which was granted to them and them unwaveringly, thanks to the Disney lobby, enhanced. Copyright reform has always gone in one direction and it remains illegal to format shift your own belongings in the UK. The debate in a nutshell includes people who'd like to see things swing back in the other direction, without necessarily eradicating copyright, simply because each extension of copyright (a state-granted monopoly right over what you can communicate and reproduce for the benefit of others) grants benefits to the rightsholders at the sacrifice of the commons, and of my rights to use my property (CD burners, CDs, books, etc) freely.
I second that. Just changing the image will often swing CTRs wildly. One of the great things about FB ads is that you can put an image (unlike google text ads) and the audience responds very well to images.
Code bloat's real! I did nice games on a PDP-8 in 4K in FOCAL, and wrote a 2-image swapping wargame on the KayPro II in SBasic in 64K. We also ran 16 users on a 4Mb Vax-11/730. Times change, but man, we've moved a bit to the left on the space/time tradeoff line...
Read the actual paper, take a look at the hypomania test: figure out things about yourself. http://cl.ly/313A0x2k011t400C3N3C
I have a hunch this was written by a non-native English speaker (see the quote usage near the beginning).

Anyway, I think he's saying that our faces, which allow us to communicate without words (the last sentence of your quote), are now nothing more than static images/advertisements (e.g., profile pictures). Communication on social networks has been reduced to using advertising techniques to gain attention.
Sorry. Those examples are admittedly more complex than I made them out to be. I mentioned scaling to be a more difficult problem. There are some master architects in all those projects, who deal with hard problems, but a large code base is not the same as a complex problem. Large pieces of software are many small and simple problems held together by a complex glue. The architects deal with the glue, but category one programmers can so most of the other stuff without too much difficulty.
I'm not sure why Anonymous does not fit the article's definition.
Lessons Learned From LizaMoon
Do you happen to know the dimensions and weight of the package it comes in?
Microsoft Takes Anti-Trust Action Against Google. Hilarity Ensues.
tl;dr: Java is the only viable web technology, and all frameworks except @ItsNat are discarded for reasons like "uses XML or declarative programming." It looks like the framework uses an in-server browser to do layout with Java-based event listeners.
But for "normal" people, videos, casual games and random browsing is what a PC is for.
Online dating exhaustion
Does facebook have any legal liability if their advertisers use copyrighted images?
I have to confess, I've got a sort of fondness for this writing style. It's got a certain rythm that makes everything seem more... impactful than it really is.

edit: of course, what I meant to say was:

While aesthetically confusing on a surface level, the subcurrent of ryhtmic tonality in these disquisitions impacts the reader's thought process in subliminal ways. Hitherto the paragon of collegiate studies, these textual discourses nowadays propagate freely in the super-plebeian fantasy-made-reality cyber-utopia that is the infosphere. The parentally linked-to hypertext is a two-fold example of not only the skillfull mastery of the avant-poetic style, but also the post-print arrangement common in todays socioeconomic conditions.
For what _most_ people actually do, which is email, browsing and word processing and other productivity work, I'm having trouble believing that a tablet won't work equally well.

Maybe future tablets will be larger than 10" or support multiple displays, or multiple tablets working together, or maybe with external keyboards added, but except for niche tasks (graphic design which is often mouse/pen based) or CAD, I think they are a big step forward. That doesn't mean that advanced users won't stick to the desktop interface.

People said the same thing when the mouse became popular and the keyboard / command line interface dominated. I still use the command line interface every day because it's very efficient at what I do, but I do acknowledge that most people nowadays never will.
Taking "Deployment" Out of Web Development
No, it is about other frameworks...all non-java frameworks are just immediately deemed inadequate!
1. At first for me it was a centralized database, If two apps want to access the same data, what are you going to do? We got around it by making an API.

2. A module for google checkout, I'm still trying to find a Python one for PayPal.

3. +1 For the HTTPS on custom domains

4. +1 To import and export databases
Clients with limited budgets are easily sticker shocked by hosting costs. Having the option to bundle 20 days of free production hosting is a great addition to any development service. EY AppCloud is a great service and we hate to see clients opt out without giving it a try.
China's tricky wage dynamics
My biggest problem with Dapper was the lack of MySQL support, so I updated it to work with all databases by going the ADO.NET only route. You can find my work here:

https://github.com/managedfusion/dapper-dot-net
But since you read left to right and people want to filter out comments that don't have lots of upvotes, doesn't it make sense to have the point values on the left? If anything, what about moving the vote action to the right? Or at the end of the comment ala Amazon.com?
Please tell us more!

I'm very curious about this, because I know that if I don't have something regularly scheduled for morning or early afternoon I tend to sink into depression, and now I'm wondering if I could perhaps be getting too much sleep. I had thought it was either a) getting sleep at the wrong times (I'll tend to stay awake later each night) and thus missing out on sunlight, or b) that regularity itself prevented my depression. This would also explain it, though.
"I think that part of the problem is that there's inflation in upvotes because people have an unlimited supply."

It's not obvious to me that this is true. Here is a counterexample:

In the extreme case, if the user base consisted of a set of 'wise old users' who only up voted the 'good' content and a set of 'mindless new users' who literally up voted every post, then the votes from the latter group just add to the baseline vote count without having any power at changing the orderings of submissions. In this situation the submission ranking is determined solely by the 'wise old users' even if they are greatly outnumbered.

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The problem you describe is that the new people are interested in different things to the old and can use their number advantage to push things in that direction.

It seems to me that there are a few possible solutions.

1. a) Restrict the topics of discussion on the website by restricting the people who can add to the conversation. Eg, disallowing new accounts to be created or starting a new website and only selectively inviting people.

1. b) Restricting the topics of discussion on the website by empowering a certain subgroup of people who share a particular interest. This could be done by moderators deleting submissions or via your suggestion of having 'super votes'.

2. a) Allow free submission of topics but provide manual mechanisms for organising the information better so people can choose the subset that they are interested in. Eg, the subreddit approach or having comments marked as insightful/funny/etc.

2. b) Allow free submission of topics but provide personalised rankings tailored to each user. Eg, user rlpb tends to like posts which RiderOfGiraffes likes and also posts which include the word "thinking" so give those a bonus in the rlpb ranking.

In my opinion the ideal solution is 2.b. I dislike the 'elitist' philosophy of 1.a and b, they seem unworkable as long term solutions and pragmatically if I can find the information useful to me on pages 1 and 2 I don't care if pages 3-100 are junk.

Option 2.a seems to work ok on Reddit. However, it does rely on people playing by the rules and probably also a willingness to subdivide subdivisions quite liberally.

I'm sure there are problems with 2.b as well: people need to be actively providing information about their interests to get the classification benefit, and the computational load is likely higher.

tldr: The premise of any vote based ranking site is that there is one set of universally accepted 'good content.' The success of this mechanism depends crucially on the homogeneity of the population it is applied to. If this assumption is broken it can be re-established by exiling part of the population or segregating the population into more homogeneous subgroups (explicitly or invisibly.)
One in 50 combatants in Afghanistan is a Robot.
I sat back in the my chair instead of hunching forward.
I'm surprised that this went through with the CNIL (a french administration that takes care of user privacy and liberty), they are usually pretty tight on user information retention.

Doesn't surprise me though, France has a long story of not knowing what the F they were doing regarding new technology, this is just another example of how incompetent they are when in comes to IT...
Very good initiative, team boo-box to be congratulated!
Ask HN: Review my startup, appwork.com
Yes, I agree here too, telepresence would be a pretty good reason. But even then, that's probably actually less useful than just a videoconferencing system, since you could continue to have your hands/eyes free for other things like taking notes or whatever at the same time.
I interpret it as "kids this days like them lolcats".
I always use http://dynadot.com, I've never had a single problem with them registering what I'm searching for, and their interface is awesomely simple.
Is this a joke? If not, do these people get paid to give these presentations? This thing appears to want to tell me that JS isn't typed and not compiled.
I had forgotten that telephony was in his blood prior to the Apple II. It even surfaced momentarily at NeXT with ISDNKit. Not knowing about this history, it would be easy to think it odd, in 2007, that Apple brought a phone to market. Today it seems natural.
Nasdaq-100 to Cut Apple’s Index Share Nearly in Half
Looking at the dynamic code gen... is it necessary? Can't they just use a method that takes 'type' and the set of properties as arguments? I'm sure I'm missing something, but don't see it at the moment.
Cyberpunk got somehow stuck in mirror shades and virtual reality worlds, and then wandered off into the artistic fringe.

There was also very little grasp of programming by the cyberpunk writers that I've read. No understanding of the Cyber part of the Punk. That would have increased its ability to stay relevant.
Why do all these companies think I want to see the charge per hour for hosting? Maybe per hour would be useful for some people in certain situations but at least list the per month charges too.
You've explained exactly why I don't consider "lost sales" a valid argument.

In any event, the debate about copyright is indeed much larger than the debate about piracy. I was restricting my thoughts to piracy (and really piracy for the purpose of obtaining new media, not for doing things with paid-for media that you should be allowed to do) and whether or not it is justified. I should have made that more clear.

If you feel I am still missing something, considering my narrow focus, please let me know. It was not my intention to exclude any reasonable perspectives or bias my post to my own views.
One thing that would be interesting for this app would be to setup so that it would send you an email/sms whenever it saw a face it did not recognize, along with the pic.

I'd love to see this as part of a home security system in which it will send you images when it starts seeing people it doesnt recognize.
In one of the early slides, the author decides that Java is the only language that you would ever want to have running in your web server and eliminates all of the non-Java web frameworks at that point (of which PHP and Rail are the only examples worthy of a mention).
This was absolutely a waste of my time. Information was incorrect and the design of the slides made me want to gouge my eyes out.
I didn't say it did...

Just looking on the http://sprouter.com/answers homepage, here's a taste...

Dan Martell - Flowtown,
Aaron Patzer - Mint,
Micah Baldwin - Graphic.ly,
Mark Suster - GRP Partners
Having been in your position about 6 years ago, reading a ton of books and websites, I'd def. say don't waste your money on books about programs like photoshop/illustrator, etc, as they become outdated very quickly.

Take fgblanch's advice, he (she) knows what they are talking about. The number one place to become a psd ninja would def. be psdtuts (psd.tutsplus.com). The great thing about it is besides the fact that they have video and step by step tutorial, if you are in a hurry, most times you can just download the already created 'standard web element' being featured in the tutorial, and tweak it to your liking.

Also smashing mag is pretty awesome too, they feature great step by step tutorials, and also frequently post beautiful icon sets, images, fonts, textures and examples for your graphic inspiration needs.
Definitely would be interested.
The article also covers the same issue in Python and shows how to drastically reduce memory usage. Pretty awesome stuff!
All laws are human made.
I don't really like word-completion based schemes (the first thing I disabled on phones was the T9 typing for SMS) for the following reasons:

- I type in multiple languages (both programming and human). Systems with word-completion are generally based on a single language and need a context switch and separate dictionaries.

- You have to be very alert to what appears on the screen. You cannot blindly/mechanically type something and be sure that you get what you want, unless you know the entire dictionary.
I agree with this perspective. For example, I was interested in watching the movie E-Dreams the other day. I would have been more than willing to rent it on Amazon On-Demand, or iTunes, if it was available. However, it wasn't. And then I realized that it was on YouTube. So I just watched it there.

I don't mind paying $5 to rent a movie that I want to see. The fact is I don't have enough time in my life to watch all the stuff I want to watch, so when it comes down to it, I simply want the most convenient method of watching something. I'd prefer it not be shot with an unsteady handycam in a movie theater in Brazil with subtitles; I will pay to make sure the version I watch is of decent quality.

The fact is that the media industry is so busy trying to put out what it sees as fires (and these piracy fires are endless, by the way), instead of giving the consumer what they want. If they even had the smallest inkling of a brain, they would have already put their entire catalog online for direct purchase. No retarded DRM, or anything like that. Simply let people download the songs, at high quality, and then go after the most egregious forms of piracy. This would lead to higher margins (sales costs effectively go to 0), and they would be able to chill out a bit as well. Instead, they seem to think that living in their bunker somewhere is the way out of the situation, and are passing on probably the greatest revenue opportunity of all time.
I regularly neglect my side projects for my wife & kids, so I guess my SO. I don't regret a second of it, either.

It would probably be different if I were younger and just dating.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy conference, Starts at 11:15
We Must Eradicate/Support Social Gaming Before It Ends Life On Earth/So Kit...
I would say ease of acquisition is part of the market failure - if your market can't easily get your products, then why would they buy it? Of course, that's also partially legal failure as well.

I think "market failure" covers a huge swath of reasons and problems with digital media. Including pricing and acquisition.
Stability & speed. My apps randomly kick out various HTTP 500 errors. Sometimes database speed isn't so slick.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 636, in __call__
handler.post(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/gumroad/1.349498677539326613/main.py", line 292, in post
db.delete(link)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 1491, in delete
datastore.Delete(keys, config=config)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/datastore.py", line 516, in Delete
keys, multiple = NormalizeAndTypeCheckKeys(keys)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/datastore.py", line 178, in NormalizeAndTypeCheckKeys
keys, multiple = NormalizeAndTypeCheck(keys, (basestring, Entity, Key))
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/datastore.py", line 157, in NormalizeAndTypeCheck
(types, val, typename(val)))
BadArgumentError: Expected one of (<type 'basestring'>, <class 'google.appengine.api.datastore.Entity'>, <class 'google.appengine.api.datastore_types.Key'>); received None (a NoneType).
Dropping Maslow's hammer
I like it, but I have to agree it's about 25% larger than I'd want, including both the input field for adding a comment (which takes up 1/5 of my screen height on a large monitor) and the comments, which end up being way too long.

Just reducing the font sizes a little would help - having the default font so large kind of apes apps like readability, it's much bigger than is necessary.

(Just zooming out on my browser isn't enough, since it also reduces the width of the lines.)
They do, explicitly:

Contrary to this, CHAN-culture (imageboards, fast communication channels) and the ANON-meme (crowd orientated cyber actions) try different ways in waging real mass-based cyberwars, they reach this point by being more punk again, punk as in: deviant subculture that parents are afraid of.

I read this as saying that Anonymous and 4chan (and friends) have reached the point of being punk again, in that sense.