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I do not disagree, engineers need CAD tools or simulators, architects the same. Take all the professional people and put them in the category "Need a computer for their job." Now create another group called "Don't need a computer for their job." Compare the sizes of the two groups.

I don't think anyone expects that general purpose personal computers are ever going away, but there is a pretty compelling argument that the bulk of computational assets will fall into the 'appliance' category rather than the 'general purpose' category.

As Atwood points out, Microsoft strove to have a PC in every house, and they succeeded! PCs have higher penetration in homes than TVs. However, given tablets and their capabilities, it is looking more and more likely that this trend will stop and that the number of homes without a PC in them will begin to rise again. its an open question how many homes that will be but it seems likely it will happen.
I had the exact same problem. Make it editable from the get-go.
I don't think it's such a sound argument if you could substitute virtually any flashy project that will entrance children for that. You could easily argue that developing sentient (and sapient) Giant Mecha or bioengineering talking unicorns would raise the interest of young people for getting into 'science'.

I'm sorry to say that, but people are just geeking out when they say that manned space travel is worth the expense and risk for the inspiration it will bring. Having space marines or replicating the Enterprise just for the cool factor when there's so much more to do that could benefit humanity in more tangible ways (like, say, ever more powerful AI, garbage processing, vaccine production and energy production) is folly.
I also thought it would be factorial at first, but a moment's thought proves that wrong. Imagine adding a new computer to an already connected cluster. How many new connections?
I think the article is correct except for its timing. The iPad 1 did all of this, the updated display resolution really doesn't change the device fundamentally. Sure the fonts and icons look great to Jeff, who just bought his first iPad. But guess what? They looked great on iPad 1 too.
As a designer, I LOVE your interface.

The only thing I'd do differently is allow users to zoom in/out on the map using the mouse scroll. I know this is default behavior on most map products, so when I went to zoom and my scroll button did nothing ... it was a little counter-intuitive.

That's a very minor issue however, and this is a great product overall.
The day I can code an iPad app on the iPad is the day I enter the post-pc era.

Or code, test & deploy web apps from an iPad.

Or design & layout web pages on an iPad.

We live in a post-mainframe era even though mainframes are still alive an kicking. But a mainframe isn't required create, test and deploy PC software. Once PCs are no longer required to create, test and deploy code for mobile devices we'll be in a post-PC era - that is, once PCs are no longer a required part of the general purpose computing ecosystem.
My suggestion with anything is never to limit the people that apply to you. For one thing you could scare off someone who is truly exceptional that you would hire even if they didn't want to work 24/7. The other is that this isn't GE and they don't have to worry about getting 40,000 resumes to look at.

Things like this remind me of "serious inquiries only" on craiglist which I find insulting and I'm sure that turns off inquires that could result in sales.

Having just closed 2 sales that others in my business would have blown off (because of the approach of the buyer) I can tell you that in general it always pays to leave no stone unturned and not to be lazy and limit who can approach you.
I think you're missing the obvious, frequently mentioned point, that users don't 'love' paying money for a free web browser. Patent encumbered video isn't free.
"Update: MPAA just asked the court to deny Google’s amicus brief. They argue that Google’s perspective is one-sides and that the company acts as a partisan advocate for Hotfile."

Incredible. This plays out like a bad soap opera, except one where all of our freedoms are at stake.

If Google's brief is one-sided, what does that make the MPAA's attack?
I agree and it's on the list of things to do tomorrow. I was in a rush when pushing the site out and forgot that the images need optimisation. Glad you like the design though.
agreed, with p.ostero.us - the goal is data portability - i dont want to own your content - just a nice way to display it - your content can be from your github repo etc..

- plus - with 1 click you can download your entire p.ostero.us/octopress install and self host whenever you want ( all the data is yours ) - thats the feature i wish posterous had
What do you mean by "not the 'ideal' candidate"? Is your concern that you aren't a hacker? There are plenty non-technical YC founders (I'm one).

Assuming you are building a startup in the music space, it would seem your experience/skills could be an asset.
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Been using this for some years, hope the service doesn't go the way of the dodo and I have to join the megaconglumeratti just to read email.
I may be alone here, but running latest chrome on osx, I am taken to the app store and google play market when clicking the links.
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Has anyone made a change....if so do you "love it" or

"tell me what you wish someone would have told you"

I am just looking for a new mountain to climb (and hope it's not a "the grass is always greener" situation)
They do, but they don't have to. Some careers are notoriously averse to evolving technology - I still see HP-12C calculators around the office because many of its users refuse to learn anything newer - and business and accounting are two of them.

There is little stopping them from using newer tools but inertia.
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No, it would be for LAN use with a web-app.
So what if I remake it before he patents it? Is my implementation then prior art?

If you're right, the patent system is yet again more broken then I thought.
>'The site’s popularity is “a direct result of the massive digital theft that Hotfile promotes,” the movie industry group said.' //

Gah, this again.

If it's theft they should be able to show what digital goods they have been denied. Can't someone please smack any movie industry group that makes such false statements about copyright infringement.
There's no one right way to remember something. I'm glad you found something that works for you!
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only one thing happens at a time. Is it entirely impossible to perform a synchronus action on a node server?
Hm. I would imagine the foam is high strength, but low density.

High density would kind of defeat the purpose.
That's more or less what I meant. I'm just slightly overwhelmed seeing so many technology oriented news stories and startups on here.
Part of the claim was that for most people, the tablet (with the retina display) is enough for all the computing they want to do. I think "most people" excludes us - the programmers/makers. We will always need a full general computing machine.
Though it's not nearly as pronounced; at least in the case of net cafes (absent any other licensing), there needs to be a copy for every game for every computer, which probably does add up to a decent amount of revenue per player hour for all except the Counter Strikes of the gaming world.

Discounted, but not to a $24 million for all Skyrim players degree (based on $80 a copy and 300k users peak).
I still need a horse to check the fences without spooking the cattle or to control crowds in NYC. These automobile things will never catch on.
I know your use cases may ignore it, but Excel, from what I've seen is unmatched. There are things you can do in it that are either difficult to do in other spreadsheet apps or require a database.

It's limitations are outweighed by how fast you can do cut and dice data, including pivot tables (ie, basic OLAP). Google Docs is still too limited (ie, try filtering and sorting on multiple columns).

If you know of a way I can do this in a desktop or web-app for the entry price of Excel (free would be nice, but I don't mind paying), I'd be happy to know.
I didn't make the site, but I think it's a good site to have. I think the idea is that it just makes it easier for people to find examples of government making mistakes-- and government makes mistakes consistently. And I acknowledge that the plural of anecdotes isn't proper proof-- but it works on a lot of people.

Personally, I have tried to use principles to argue against government and people throw anecdotal excuses back at me. (For example: It's been proven that the existence of a minimum wage reduces employment in low-skilled workers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0c2vmFGbtk )

There is a lot of bias in the article summaries though. :/
“But, in this respect, Hotfile did exactly what the DMCA demands, and plaintiffs’ takedown notices cannot be used to charge the service with knowledge of allegedly infringing material that those notices did not specifically identify.”

Yes, exactly! I think people in general -at least by the comments in the Megupload stories- have a misguided view on this issue. They assume that copyright is a property of a sequence of bits, when it's in fact dependent on the provenience of a particular copy.

If I copy some MBs from /dev/random to a file and get a bit-by-bit equal file to an MP3 of Yellow Submarine, that doesn't mean the Beatles own the copyright over that file, since its provenience wasn't their creation.

Similarly, if I encrypt an MP3 that I bought on iTunes, I still can't distribute it even though the bytes are completely different, because the provenience is there.

This is all explained much better on What colour are your bits?: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

The problem is that the RIAA and MPAA are basically being a bunch of hypocrites, by trying to argue that the provenience either matters or doesn't as it suits them.
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My parents, who are 70 and 66, both primarily use an iPad for computing these days. My mother's main email client is her iPad. When they went on vacation late last year, both brought their iPads along to allow them to communicate, find things, etc. It's gone way beyond expensive toy.
Other than the name of the site, how do you come to the conclusion that DAG is "anti-government" outright? Did you actually read the stories?
> ..you overestimate what most PCs are used for.

I'll agree that this is they key difference. I'm sure that my ideas of computers are good for - there value to society - is different to most users.

Perhaps what really gets me is the idea that the tablet 'revolution' is necessary leading us to a better place. One day we might look back fondly at the 'family computer' that sat in the living room, where someone discovered a love of programming, or creating movies, or whatever. Stuff that other less 'general purpose' devices don't do.

Hmm.
Very neat.

What i don't understand- probably to do with the jPlayer- is that it seems to know the length of the song before it has all loaded (because of the seekbar lengths), yet it only increases the time string as the file is loaded.
The headline here on HN is a bit misleading, the article is really about spending more on your employees in the aggregate (eg. by hiring more of them, spending more on training, etc) than paying individual employees more.

In any case, I know this doesn't count as data but there is a growing number of establishments (retail stores, coffee shops, etc) I just don't go to anymore because I know the lines are going to be overly long due to understaffing.

It is not okay to make customers wait 10+ minutes in line so you can save a handful of multiples of 8 bucks an hour. And if you do this you may well save a tiny bit of money in the short term, but eventually the customers will just go elsewhere and those customers are unlikely to come back for a long time even after you fix the problem.

(tl;dr -- FU, Vons stores in San Diego).

ps. I realize having to wait 10-ish minutes in line for fresh produce and other groceries is the epitome of a first world problem, but I still reserve the right to point it out as a failing business strategy.
In that way, I think of the iPad a lot like I think of game consoles. They're not self-hosting (or whatever you want to call it), and they're not designed to be anytime soon. They're designed to be a software/content distribution channel for a hardware manufacturer who takes a royalty of that in addition to selling the device.
The Nereus has already been down there unmanned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereus_(underwater_vehicle)

If you are wondering what it saw there are some videos here: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=33775
Civilian, the site is definitely biased, but not partisan. It's biased in favor of personal liberty and meritocracy, yes. But it's not anti-government or anarchist.

The idea behind DAG is that you can quickly spot where the trouble areas in government are, be they people or bureaucracies. If the site has wide enough readership, being named on DAG could eventually become a political scarlet letter.
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The iPad 3's display is notable mostly because of what you don't see: pixels. If you saw two of them running side by side, I expect you would have seen the difference immediately. However, a technology which simply removes a problem, even when it's a big ugly problem, is often invisible except by comparison. It's still a big deal even, nay because, it's not immediately noticeable on its own.
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> You get what you paid for applies to everything including salaries.

Hmmm. Lehman's CEO was not exactly underpaid. Nor Freddie Mac. Nor Fannie Mae. Nor GM. Nor Enron. Nor Worldcom. Nor Rich McGinn in his Lucent days.

And that's just the first people that spring to mind in 60 seconds.
Interesting comment, because that means Apple is the biggest impediment to a post-PC era.
If anything, I'd imagine you'd have an advantage. Silicon Valley is filled with programmers/hackers, but the really interesting people are those that come from other backgrounds with different experiences.

In most cases, making a successful startup is primarily a business problem, not a technical one. Seeing customers' perspectives, knowing the business you're entering, understanding the problem you're trying to solve -- these are all more important than being able to write Ruby quickly.

If your experience outside programming helps you contribute to solving hard problems like these, you're infinitely more valuable than someone who knows only code.
Oh, I don't think we'll ever return to actual dumb terminals - I think the difference will be that some services will be available and others won't. Or some others will just be scheduled until you get near a basestation.
Sorry about that. I just pushed out a fix. Refresh and it should look fine.
There is an exponential relation between required dpi and distance of the eye from the printed material or monitor (further you are, less and less dpi is needed). Therefore I'm not sure retina screens are such a great idea for big desktop screens, in a usual desktop setup you probably just wouldn't notice that much difference.
> Have I ever received an email from someone using an iPad?

email, how... quaint.
I love my iPad 2, don't get me wrong. The thing is, for me the iPad supplements my MacBook Pro: acts as a second monitor, I use it for reading, and it is just large enough to be good for watching movies.

The thing is, most of my computer use is programming and writing. I need a keyboard, support for a term window, Emacs and IntelliJ, TeXShop, etc.

I might be able to earn a living using just an iPad by running a term app and doing development using a remote Linux server with SSH, Emacs, etc. and do writing using Pages, but that would be like running a race hopping on one foot.

I think that "iPad 5" might do it for me however: a larger physical screen size, about half the weight, and great IDE support for doing Lisp, Java, Clojure, etc. I'll wait 2 years and see. I think that this will require new paradigms in writing and programming tools. Mind is open.
I keep 2 plain text files:

1. backlog.txt - a list of all potential ideas and tasks

2. changelog.txt - a list of iterations/versions/milestones

Whenever I have an idea or bug, I add it as a line in backlog.txt
When I want to actually work on code, I pick 3-4 tasks that I want to complete and move them to changelog.txt. The number of tasks depends on how much I can do in one or two sittings.

backlog.txt is in a format like this:

* Fix IE9 compatibility

* Refactor CSS

* ... etc

changelog.txt looks like this:

1.1.0 - next release

--------------------

* Fixed IE8 thingy

* SSL encryption enabled

1.0.9 - March 10, 2012

--------------------

* Fixed null-pointer crash

* Catch exception in sendmail.java

* Enabled websockets transport

Keeping everything in plain text helps me from fiddling around too much with the tool, which I am very prone to do. (Meta-bonus, my product is a text editor so I can organize my product with itself.)
Agreed. Times when I was afraid to tell other people about something I was working on/wanted to achieve were the same times as when it/I wasn't good enough.
What would be the alternatives for the group of people I mentioned above?
Well, pedantically, employees is an aggregate term, and higher salary costs (either by higher individual wages or more individual wages) meets the conditions.

Less pedantically: the focus was on more, better trained employees, and more experienced employees. In the later two situations, this generally translates to individuals being better paid -- experienced workers demand higher wages, as to better trained ones. Further, a large number of the faiure examples given were about firing the higher cost employees (experienced, trained ones, and full-time ones) in favor of cheaper ones, again implying that the per-employee wages were dropped as well.
I'm referring to people who live on their wages and not investment income, eg: the 99%.
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When advocating for an action (such as cutting NASA), you need to establish that the action is a good use of the time and effort relative to other ways it could be spent (e.g. cutting pretty much any other item on the budget). For example, I could save a whole five cents if I drove to a farther gas station to fill up. You might say, "Hey, five cents is five cents," but actually the time (and probably even gas) cost is much greater than the win from doing it. Cutting NASA is premature optimization at best.
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I hope all of HN is like you, much less competition in the future for the rest of us that don't define the era based on your parochial toolsets.
Holy shit, what is the drama with this question?

An employer is trying to figure out the motivations of the worker. How is this wrong? How is setting up a scenario manipulative? Why is everyone so hostile to this?
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Way too small, requires a fidgety external keyboard... tablets don't look good for general office use, especially when compared to ultrabooks -- the real future of office computing IMHO. Why should I waste my time attaching/detaching/packing a tablet and an external keyboard, when I can just close the screen and be on my way? And all this trouble just to get... a screen smaller than 20-year-old monitors? Most office people don't care about screen resolution; if I had a penny for every monitor I've seen running at resolutions much lower than what the hardware could deal with, I'd be closing in on Warren Buffett. They want BIG LETTERS and LOTS OF SPACE, and don't care how it's achieved.

Tablets are good for certain use-cases, but when it comes to typing to save your life (i.e. your business), they are simply not a match and will likely never be. Couple that with the small screen real estate (spreadsheets these days are enormous), and you see how the iPad can be taken seriously only by the detached upper echelons who play golf all day. The rank-and-file will keep asking for (lighter) laptops forever more.
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That is impossible and a very silly thing to worry about. First of all, this problem has already been solved with fuses.

Furthermore, keep in mind that both batteries and capacitors have a limited power rating. Power is the energy that can be spent or released per unit time. Thus a limited power rating means that the batteries/capacitors can only release a limited amount of energy for a given time. Thus they cannot release all the energy they have stored for driving 300 miles in a second. That is just not physically possible. Since the power rating is usually an engineering constraint, this generally means that the stored power for driving 300 miles can usually only be released around the time it takes to drive for 300 miles. Perhaps a little quicker. But the idea that all this energy will get released instantaneously frying everyone in the car is just impossible with current battery technology.

If you worry about instantaneous energy release you should worry about gas powered cars, because gasoline can release all of its energy instantaneously in a giant fireball. But even this is highly unlikely.
It is an issue in Windows 7, at least with default settings. As mentioned in the grantparent post, if you have a default taskbar setup (at the bottom, no autohide) you can very easily drag a window below the taskbar (because the taskbar is larger than the entire window titlebar), which might as well be off the screen because the zorder of the taskbar is greater than that of the window, so you can't interact with the window via the mouse until you move the taskbar or set it to auto-hide.
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If he would have owned up to it and said "No, it wasn't entirely real, I'm an artist", that would be one thing. Instead he denied that he made certain things up, and when This American Life asked him direct and specific questions regarding the nature of his visit, he continued to lie. Perhaps Woz didn't hear that.
Families have burnt to death horribly in gasoline fires, too. They don't tend to show that kind of thing on TV at all (and I don't think that burning to death is significantly less horrible than electrocution).
Ask HN: why were magic cookies so-called?
The immediate source of the name of HTTP cookies is that they were named after "magic cookies", a then-current CS term for a string of code used as an identifier (i.e. exactly like HTTP cookies). But where did that term come from?

Several people have suggested that "magic cookie" is a synonym for "fortune cookie", which seems reasonable, but I've not found any persuasive primary sources for that theory yet.

Help me out, nerds of HN!
I hope they decide to call it something nicer than FFFT
I've been netbooking it for my chillin' computin' for the past couple years. Since getting an 800x400 AMOLED screen on a smartphone, I haven't even thought about getting a new netbook. There are all sorts of useful form factors. the iPad _IS_ a PC. It just uses a different CPU and proprietary hardware.

Now... a small and light PC that is completely intractable with via a touchscreen, wireless data, etc...

That's a goddamn miracle.

Bloggers just love to historicize the present.
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