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Ask HN: How would you improve the iPad?
1 thing you would change about the iPad to make it better. It can be anything (including stuff that is not possible with today's technology).

I'm trying to get an idea of what the perfect tablet will be compare to what we have today.
Philippines here. Everybody I know has their iPhones and iPod Touches jailbroken.
yeah, bike. should use it more.
You are right. Carriers here (Philippines) charge way too much for the iPhone that it will be insane and impractical for the average working guy to get one. And they tie you up for 2 years. I mean WTF.
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Without too seriously violating the design goals of the iPad: add a camera.

But without that constraint, I'd make it run a full OS (my preference would be Windows 7, but OS X would work for those who like it, I guess), with some kind of clever gesture layer of course.
The "saved" page is slow and doesn't always load. Sometimes it just returns a blank white page.
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My target audience isn't particularly web testers, you can probably get an idea of who I'm targeting by looking at the post in context. There's a lot of uses for these techniques outside of the designed for purposes :-)

That being said, thanks for the feedback. I will take a look at webrat, seems nice.
> Everything you say is accurate except the insinuation that Democrats are mostly at fault. George W. Bush was in office for the worst of it

In this matter, Bush's sins are sins of omission - as you point out, he didn't do anything. Dems did something, but what they did was wrong. For example, they actively protected Fannie and Freddie. Those are sins of comission.

Note that Bush didn't change the regulatory structure - he went with what Clinton left him. Again - omission vs comission.

It's the difference between manslaughter and murder.

And, that's ignoring ACORN's role. Among other things, they picketed banks that didn't make enough loans to folks who couldn't afford them. They tried to intervene with regulators. And so on.

Yes, Bush might have been able to keep this from happening, but he would have been fighting Dems the whole way.

He didn't fight. They pushed bad policies. There is a difference.

And, I note that Barney Frank is still in office and Gorelick, among others, are in the Obama administration.

Bush? Not in office.
There is still the catharsis to go through.

What I'm referring to is a J-curve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_curve
where the currency gets smacked hard -- say 2-1 -- and the trade deficit gets worse because terms of trade changed and you can't get rid of oil dependence overnight. Exports recover because the American worker is closer to par, in terms of costs, with the Latin American and Chinese workers. But it won't be pretty, and it'll really, really hurt. Just as things are darkest just before the dawn, things'll get bleaker for a while before Americans see this through.
i should have hung around longer...
You know, I'm not sure that's a counterexample. If there were six good and careful coders, I think I could be convinced that they'd make a more reliable system than a few hundred broken into several carefully-spec'ed and rigorously documented teams, where it would be much harder to avoid having a few bad apples, not to mention the impossibility of having even a general idea of what someone else's code is doing.

It's not a guarantee, no. But I don't think it's a knockout counterexample, either.
Game industry veteran here...

It's an interesting idea, but there's a some problems. First, the crossover between those who need art in their spare time, and those who know how to contribute to projects like Blender.

In reality, the people (like me), who love making games and are constantly on the lookout for artists to help out with side projects, spend all of our time doing gameplay code. Heavy 3d math, number crunching, data management -- that kind of stuff tends to fall under the category of things we don't like doing -- thus the expertise and passion for making games themselves.

On the flip side, the programmers with the ability to contribute to a project like blender, are the kind of programmers who are specialists in a particular field, and thus, from my experience, don't really branch out from that in to the kind of things that would need art on the side.

Granted, these are generalities, but I've been in the industry for eleven years and I've only met one person who crossed those boundaries (one Stan Melax, a dude smart enough to correct John Carmack and passionate enough to walk away from a job when it doesn't challenge or interest him).

Second, those of us who are passionate about making games and do need art, are often more interested in collaborations which further our side projects. If I were to contribute to blender, this doesn't really get my own projects further. At least, not in a parallel fashion, more it's like I'm doing the coding AND the art. Only I'm trading unrelated coding for art. Really, game programmers who do this stuff on their own time are often selfish and/or extremely focused on our own projects.

Third, even if I did contribute to blender as a trade, the reality is that it doesn't further my skills in the direction I actually need for the stuff I do. So ultimately, the whole thing is kind of more downside than upside.

Anyway, not to say it's not an interesting idea, and that it won't rope in a few people, but it's going to be hard to find those people, ultimately.
http://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-5th/...

http://www.amazon.com/Investments-Zvi-Bodie/dp/007293414X

are both very good general resources.

Investments is a very broad approach that covers a lot of markets and basics and how things work. Very accessible to complete beginners.

The Hull is an introductory text and a great reference source to keep handy. You'll need to be slightly mathy to get it, but I suspect most HN readers will feel at home.
I mean robust in terms of being able to deal with a wider range of circumstances. Perhaps smaller means that in general (don't really have an opinion on that), but in the case of Redis vs SQL, Redis is less robust by design. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it all depends on your needs.
I'm also moving to Manhattan or Brooklyn this summer, also to work on a startup. We should meet up.
Cool. I'd love to see the nodes arranged geographically.
Not much. I would make it maybe 1/4 the weight and 1/4 the cost, but that'll take another few years. An iPad is nice, about five of them scattered around the house is better. (Ever see Star Trek? They have so many fucking PADDs around they'll just hand you one because they want you to read a single one page report.)

I would implement "multitasking" but the UI would still work the same: "closing" an app would just sleep the process and swap the memory out. I would allow some processes to spawn "background services" to play audio and maybe a couple other things.

They would be fully self-hosting machines with no dependence on a PC. Their data would sync to some type of cloud storage in some optimized semi-lazy way. For instance, if you download a recipe book on your bedroom iPad upon waking up, it'll show up on your kitchen iPad by the time you get to the kitchen. (If it's not actually loaded, opening it up will transfer it over, possibly p2p from the other iPad.)

And of course, it would have infinite RAM, storage, bandwidth, and CPU.
My first thought is that it isn't a fair trade - art is a one shot thing, code has to be maintained.
I have an Apple store right next to my house, so I stopped by today to play with an iPad.

He's right about the smudgey screen -- though supposedly both the iPad and iPhone have oleophobic screens, the iPad was noticeably worse than the iPhone.

Granted, several thousand fingers running over it for 16 hours a day probably wasn't the intended use case.
I'm surprised none of your checkins are in Williamsburg. That is, after all, where the NYTimes says all the action is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/technology/07reboot.html
I agree with edw519.

I have been programming for nearly 44 years. I have done a little bit of management during that time, and I can assure you that spending much time as a manager will erode your programming skills.

In many contexts, managers are more expendable than programmers. in fact, these days, apparently more than ever, highly talented programmers are hard to find at any level. Managers are a dime a dozen, and can get whacked just as easily as anyone.
Change for US
Around 2004 to 2007 there were more and more signs which indicated the upcoming housing crises. But with all the information floating around it was not all that clear how it will turn out, now we know much better.

I see the same kind of news and discussion increasingly happening on which way the US will move. Latest news say job market is getting better at the same time more articles start to say America will go bankrupt. Well, the country itself does not go bankrupt, but if the government can not fulfill the payment obligations there will be consequences.

One direct risk is when foreign investors start to significantly draw down the investments into the US. What will be the ramifications in the next years to come if US does financially go under?
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It's true that you'd only know about (5) if you'd ever owned, used, or read much about an iPhone or an iPod Touch. Every iPhone I've ever seen has been smudgey.
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Slack and inefficiency keeps people employed and spreads the wealth. Until we've got Utopian redistribution, every technical improvement puts someone out of work. Like, say, travel agents. What do people like that do now?
Really liked the post. Will definitely be something I'll re-read from time to time.
"If the Colts did indeed have superior talent and then win the super bowl then obviously the reason was justified."

It should be pointed out that with Aristotelian logic, that is false. "Previously I said X will happen because of Y, and X happened." is basically "Y implies X; X is true; therefore Y".

Nevertheless, it is true that if a person makes a claim that something will happen for a given reason, gives plausible logical reasons, that we have priors that also indicate the causative connection is sound, and the prediction ultimately comes true, we should not just ignore it. We may not be justified in using Aristotelian logic to conclude with 100% confidence the person's reasoning was correct, but we are justified in taking it into account and concluding that there is some reason to believe this person, who made a prediction contrary to many people's other beliefs, may in fact have something.

After all, if you're not going to listen to people who make accurate predictions with plausible reasons used for their predictions, you can just give up on science right now, because that's all it is.
Isn't that a bank, small business loan? You go make your case to a loan officer, you get it or not on the merits.
Johnny Ive has to buy an iPad?
Huh, so it seems! Has that been there forever, or was it added semi-recently in response to things like this post?
It is apparent that you are not afraid of rejection and know how to put yourself out there to women... so you have gotten farther than my healthy ass. I would advise that, whatever you decide, teach other people how to find love and how to "play the games". I would love to learn some of that.
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Multitasking with an elegant interface (which is a given for Apple). Also, maybe a little lighter. It's tiring to hold it up for long periods of time.
Yes, I realize that - and in fact I have DD-WRT running on my old WRT54G, but our market is not the mass market (I'm starting to sound like a broken record on that point). Sample 100 random WRT54G buyers, how many even knew that the router was hackable, and in the tiny minority that were even aware of such a possibility, how did it account into the purchase decision?

Not to knock on the router, but I seriously doubt its hackability had any major influence on its success.
When are we gonna come up with a name for all these communications?
Where is this giant communication ship going?
Make it foldable in half. Advantages, it fits into a blazer pocket and makes carrying it much easier. And can also protect the screen. Here's for foldable displays.
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"black solution of boron" is a bit ubiquitous. But there are enough forms of boron readily available on the market that several "likely candidate" test batches could be produced easily. And your oven will go to 1000C, just not your conventional oven. Your microwave oven will hit 1000C and beyond, you'll just need to tape off the air vent and use a refractory of some sort. I've use silicon carbide and ceramic weave to melt copper in my microwave. It's melting point is just north of 1000C. So cheap walmart T's + boron + a freecycle microwave and you could be on your way to a kickass new startup. Let me know when you start the seed round.
Incredible. Steve Jobs generates buzz just by walking around.
I'm moving to Brooklyn as well, also, mostly, to focus on my startup.
The most important thing to realize is that trading and investing are different ball game.

I don't know much about investing but I did dabble in trading, especially penny stocks. No, I am not talking about those scam emails where they claim that their stock pick is going to go up 100% in a month. I am talking about realizing those penny stock scams and 'shorting' them to your advantage. I learned about shorting penny stocks from Timothy Sykes (http://www.timothysykes.com/) and have made some money. There are quite a few other traders who share their knowledge through blogs. Few blogs which I follow:

http://www.bigmiketrading.com/

http://www.reapertrades.com/

http://www.welcometothegutter.com/

And most important tip: Trading is very risky. The saying '90% of the traders lose money' is spot on. Realize that trading is an extremely difficult profession and be very careful if you do decide to take the red pill.
Front facing or back?
Or you could check out Scion Capital's track record.
iPad as digital gameboard... that could be pretty compelling.

I'd love to have a really nice high-resolution digital chessboard.
Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit by ActiveState is a pretty successful use of the Mozilla platform.
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http://www.investopedia.com/ is a wonderful website with lots of basic financial information that spans much more than just trading and investing.
Front, for video chat.
I haven't eaten at Mcdonalds since i was a kid, but when I was a kid, every time we went there I asked for no onions on my burger. And every single time, there were onions on the damn thing.
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When will Google just hire him?
http://www.bogleheads.org/readbooks.htm

Probably the best resource I have found online; the forums are great, the folks are really helpful with a lot of useful information.
In your opinion, do they then pay for apps on the App store or use the workaround?
I believe he was referring to the Scrabble menu button in-app, not the physical home button common to the iPad/iPhone/Touch devices.
So do you mean jailbreaking or just unlocking them?
I would not be so quick to write the iPad off just because alternatives are free and the iPad is expensive. Humans are weird creatures. Who knows how people justify their purchases. But I can tell you from spending an hour in an Apple Store on Saturday -- the iPad is flying off the shelf, and the buyers are all types. Perhaps a $1,000 game of Scrabble is not as unreasonable as you might think.
"First impression matter"

oh, irony.
It used a "tweaked" Mozilla, I don't know if it still does. (I poked around but it doesn't say.)

http://trentmick.blogspot.com/2007/09/open-komodo-and-code_8...

which contains the interesting quote in the comments "Most current XUL Runner apps that I know about (those that get mentioned on planet.mozilla.org) tend to have their own patches against XUL Runner that haven't yet made it into the core sources to fix issues specific to their app."

Which was my experience with the platform too.

It is true that I have missed that, but you'd need to cite another twenty or thirty projects of a similar size before you'd catch up to the hype. (And I'd still question whether Komodo actually gets anything out of being on Mozilla vs. QT. Cost/benefits analysis of things on the Mozilla platform tend to miss the opportunity costs of having started out on a better-but-more-humble framework in the first place.)

(And while I won't hammer on it too hard, it would be nice if the app that is putatively on the platform actually ran on the platform instead of a modified platform. I don't have to go patching QT or GTK every time I want to make an app. If someone knows that it runs on XULRunner, great, please say so. All my googling is getting is people saying how nice it would be.)
by losing a bunch of money.

personally I didn't find the games etc to be all that useful, you act completely different when it's real money on the line.

luckily I started out around the time the market started picking back up, so even when I made stupid bets they paid off.
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You can't multi-task between apps. For example right now I'm typing to you via Chrome, but I also have Tweetdeck up and seeing the other iPad chatter. You can't do that on an iPhone or an iPad. BTW, I also have southpark running in another tab :)

Linear is just that...linear. Although I guess what I'm getting at is there is no alternative means for doing things. For example on my Macbook Pro I can launch a PDF by double clicking on it, right clicking and choosing open, dragging it to Acrobat, etc. I have multiple options. With the iPad OS you are limited.
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Yes, you can...when it works.
To be fair, most billionaires do.
And it requires you to build it into the app.
I wish that guys like this would be more specific than "Web 2.0". That phrase has become so overloaded that it is now meaningless.

What is he against, exactly? Curvy pastel controls? Cloud computing? Ajax? Quick access to useful information? Social networking? What? I believe he means "crowd sourcing". That is a term with a specific meaning. He should use it.

And of course, because we have crowd-sourcing, and the benefits it has brought, individual expression is dying. Fewer and fewer people blog their own thoughts. Expressions of one's artistic individuality on the internet are few and far between. Riiiiight.

The internet reflects reality. The reality is that there have always been a whole lot of groupies and trend-followers. And there have been a much smaller number of people who forge their own path.
I think you're missing my biggest gripe: it isn't game changing and solves no consumer problem.
Exactly. You said it better than I did.
There are a lot of board games I like, but don't play very much due to the set up time. A version of Puerto Rico for these would be awesome.
You must jailbreak an iPhone to unlock it (at least in the Philippines).
I rarely watch 30 minute videos all the way through. This one is worth it (if you're interested in the topic).
Maybe I'm showing my age but the Android model is somewhat similar to what 3DO had in mind... single OS on multiple game console manufacturers and profit off the licensing fees. That didn't turn out too well.
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"You can't deny, it's pretty metaphysically silly to be playing a board game your parents bought at a yard sale for $2 on a $500+ iPad, in conjunction with two or more $200+ iPhones."

Yes, if that's all that the iPad+iPhones were capable of...
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By trying to incorporate programming into trading.

If you get an account with a company like Interactive Brokers, they offer an API. They also only charge $0.005 per share.

You can study a trading method called momentum trading, which is the idea of riding the curve for a very short period of time. For example, right after a financial statement is released, the company's stock is going to go up or down, depending on the statements results. You can write a program that immediately determines the direction the share price is going at the time in which the statement is public, then buy long or short depending on its direction. Then do the opposite when the program determines the up or down curve is leveling off.

Pretty interesting stuff, and it'll get you engaged.

As far as books, google momentum trading.
I've used pairs off and on at work but never long-term. The part I find most useful about coding side-by-side with someone is that there is someone to question (or reassure) every small decision I make (for better or worse!). Particularly in coding, there are always many ways to solve each problem and having two sets of eyes (with even mediocre brains attached) frequently yields a better solution.

I find that a necessary part of pair programming is to switch up the pairs fairly often. Pairs have a tendency to become "comfortable" with each other's habits and can fall into a rut -- pairs should be shaken up to keep each everyone on their toes.

Also, you can learn a lot (about programming, people, life, etc.) when pair programming.
I've seen some people grow tomatoes upside down, ie, they grow out of the bottom of containers attached to the ceiling. Any idea about that?
The video on techcruch is painstakingly slow, at least for me.
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I disagree with almost all the replies here. Answering the followup question may be helpful, but it is not providing anything in the way the request.

In my opinion it is more polite and less ego centric to simply answer the question first, and then, if you are still inclined to prejudge the query as something reflecting the ignorance, mention you are suspicious of its intent.
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If you are looking for those blinds which are appealing and serve different purposes then vertical blinds are the best option. One can also employ other blind types like made to measure blinds, office blinds, etc, depending upon the requirement.
These are symptoms, not a diagnosis. This would be a good reason to short Silicon Valley in the 60's. Or the entire industrial revolution.

The confusion between higher prices and higher prices reflecting higher value is at the heart of bubbles. But Shiller is repeating the same basic error.