skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, ppi scales linearly with pixel size; it's "pixels per inch", not "pixels per square inch" or anything of the sort.

So if existing iPhones are 163ppi and this is 2x as many pixels on each axis in the same space, that would be ~326ppi, not 652.

[EDITED to fix off-by-one errors in the resolutions]
Good question. Lately, with the whole dev license agreement thing, it seems like they couldn't care less who they upset. But I think that that instance and this one (if Apple do choose to hurt Gizmodo) provide bad press to a relatively small part of potential Apple buyers. It's obvious everyone at Giz either loves or hates Apple so I don't think their readers' opinions would change much.

I do think that Engadget took the high rode by passing this opportunity up. Yea, it seems like a big scoop now but in 3 months it won't mean anything.
lol, funny to see people who are presumably knowledgeable about internet completely forgetting about security
A nice alternative to gliffy/visio/omnigraffle/napkin.
Your "dead zone" was described in Stiglitz' Nobel lecture by the price system both imperfectly aggregated information and that there was an equilibrium amount of “disequilibrium.” However that is but one of many important effects from information asymmetry, and many of the others you have probably not thought about yet.

As for the size of the effects, economists disagree. It is true that Stiglitz is inclined towards believing that they are large. His reasons for doing so range from the personal (in particular time spent in Kenya) to the professional. As well when you spend a large chunk of your life thinking about the importance of an effect, you're going to be likely to think it important.

For more on this topic, I recommend reading through his Nobel lecture, available at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/....

Furthermore there are other factors that affect Stiglitz' thinking, and he doesn't really have room to discuss them all, all the time. For example I know he is very concerned that modern financial markets have externalized a lot of risk to tax payers. It is rational to take a large risk if it brings a chance of massive rewards on the one hand, and a bailout on the other. However banks that do this will not even try to price certain risks correctly. And this leads to systemic market failure modes.
Hm, I have no idea how much I pay for the connection (it's included in the rent, I don't pay for it separately) and don't even know exact parameters. It seems to be enough. (Certainly not more than 12mbps or so, but that's enough for me). I am quite happy (about this, otherwise quite depressed, but that's unrelated).
I hate to start a coffee snob thread, but Starbucks right now lives off the dollars of the 90% of people who couldn't tell the difference between Starbucks and better coffee.

I get the impression that Starbucks in its early days was a coffee snob place, but at some point it transitioned into a mass-market coffee place. It would be fascinating to be able to try a coffee from the original Starbucks in the 1970s to find out whether it has got worse or whether the tastes of the US coffee snob have got more sophisticated.
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True. But nobody can legitimize a product/feature like Apple.

Media players, smartphones, tablets, etc. were all around before Apple's take on them, but once King Jobs lets loose with the golden touch all of the sudden the entire product space comes alive. It's a little creepy.
I disagree. If you want to invest, you have to look at your investments in the context of your entire portfolio. Money invested in GS is money that can't be invested elsewhere. There's a good chance that GS will trade down or sideways over the next month. During that time, you could have invested in something with better short term prospects.

The following blog post goes in to more depth on this idea, with Massey Energy's recent mine explosion as an example.

http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2010/04/massey-energy-mee-st...
What? Pastebin and the Google cache is a perfectly legitimate backup strategy!
I think part of the success of this option is how Star Bucks wants to represent itself to its customer base. Had Dunkin Donuts chosen to raise prices in face of an almost unnoticeable drop in quality I'm sure their customers would have been less receptive.
If by "Numbers do lie" the author means "Numbers don't lie, and also some models of human behavior are less useful than others", then this essay is adequately titled.
I think all Gruber meant was that Giz knew the seller didn't own it so it was akin to knowingly buying stolen merchandise. Plus one Engadget blogger (who I think is a lawyer) pointed out on twitter that CA requires the finder to remit the property to the police or original owner, who in this case was fairly obvious to the finder given that they knew gadget blogs would want it.
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Well, Twitter only allows 140 characters, so...
My brother-in-law started something along these lines a while back:
http://cymonsgames.com/
Even so...that's about 20x faster and 40x better value than what I have. I knoq HK is tiny but so's San Francisco. /grumble
Nothing wrong with that, and it could be a valuable project. With a book, we have more options. We have the code, we can send it out as a web page, we could have it printed as a textbook, we could even build some kind of interactive system to run it.

But first we need the code. Then we can figure out what to do with it :)
I like the new design too, but blurry pics alone would've gotten everyone talking. (worked just fine for the 3G's design, which iirc was leaked months ahead of time.)

I don't see what Apple would hope to gain by blowing the reveal on all the features that came from this leak (battery, size, material, resolution, front-camera, camera sensor size, capacity).

What exactly does this leave Steve to reveal? Let OS4 and these specs stew for two months and anything this side of the pizza-delivering-unicorn will draw yawns in June.
I think everybody agrees that ASL is a language. The question is whether it qualifies as a foreign language.
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Yeah, especially for those who report directly to Jobs. I'm picturing that often comically subtitled Hitler rant video floating around YouTube.
Google's points are valid despite the conflict of interest, I'm not a big fan of any legislative solutions to these types of issues or any internet regulatory laws, politicians rarely understand technology specially the ever-changing web, these sort of laws could very well end up hurting start ups.
When I do stuff like this I purposefully ignore the results for the time I've set for the experiment. It's very easy to fall prey to thinking you have a result that will not change in the longer term. Things like daily and weekly cycles for instance can really throw off your analysis.

The only danger is having a 'hidden variable' influence your results and averaging over the longer term masks that influence. For example, if you are not geo-targeting your content, you could conclude after a long run of testing that a certain page performs better than another, only to throw away the averaged out effect of having the different pages up on different times of the day, one of them performing significantly better for one audience and vv.

So you should keep all your data in order to figure out if such masking is happening and giving you results that are good but that could be even better.
Apple Might Dump Intel for AMD: Report
Crikey, they make that all sound way more complex than it is.

I started a company very recently (my first), and after doing a little research I opened an account with Xero.

http://www.xero.com/

I'm in the UK and Xero works perfectly for me and makes everything really manageable. Reconciliation of bank accounts is built in (can even autosync with HSBC), reporting is built in, invoicing and payments received it built-in, everything including asset depreciation.

Yet it's:

* Web-based

* Has accountancy firms behind it (makes audits very easy)

* Very simple to use with great support and help (stuff like this article's content was a no-brainer)

* Shareable... give your chartered accountant access!

I have no connection with Xero at all, but since they've made pleasurable one of the aspects of starting a business that I feared I would and am heartily recommending them to UK startups (I don't know if they're set up for US, do your own homework).
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Indeed. Why would anyone trust a 3rd party website with the private key?
This is an important thing to be aware of, but I wouldn't take the numbers at strictly face value. Repeated peeks at the same running experiment are not independent of each other. Furthermore once the underlying difference between A and B starts asserting itself statistically, it doesn't stop. And finally a chance fluctuation in the opposite direction from an underlying difference has to be much larger to get to statistical significance than one in the same direction. These are massive complications that make the statistics very hard to calculate.

I addressed this in my 2008 tutorial on A/B testing at OSCON. What I did is ran Monte Carlo simulations of running an A/B test while continuously following the results with various sets of parameters, and running the test to different confidence levels. In that model I peeked at every single data point. You can find the results starting at http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/#slide59. (See http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/features.html#controlchart for the keyboard shortcuts to navigate the slides.)

My advice? Wait until you have at least a certain minimum sample size to decide. Only decide there with high certainty. And then the longer the experiment runs, the lower the confidence you should be willing to accept. This procedure will let you stop most tests relatively fast, but still avoids making significant mistakes.
Gabriel, thanks for doing these interviews. They are very interesting and inspiring.

I don't know if you are very shy but I find it odd that you don't introduce yourself or say anything about why you are doing these interviews. It would be good to have a few seconds of video or slides with you talking about the book at the start and end of each interview.
that are all on pastebin, not on "your server". so these are all worthless keys anybody can generate in a second on a linux box. thats not news.
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I agree about that. I grew up in Cincinnati. The city core is gorgeous but neglected, and is surrounded by hideously ugly suburbs.

It's starting to get revived a bit though. Last time I was there it was getting nicer, and more young people were living there.
OK well obviously we'd prefer to avoid 10 different companies digging up the street to put in their own cables (and I'm sure they'd rather not have to do that either), so how does the competition manifest in practice?
Have you gotten around to this yet?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203295

Or did I miss your posting?
Fair enough, but the addition of video to iChat in 2003 hasn't set off a video call revolution. It's used, but not too frequently in most circles.
Hostek is putting their customers at risk (bad hosting practices)
I agree, paying for the 'lost' prototype seems rather dubious. The story about finding the phone in a bar may simply be cover to protect the finder's identity, but assuming it was true, who's to say that it was 'found' and not pick-pocketed? Whoever lost the phone has every incentive to claim it was stolen, and it would be hard to prove otherwise.
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Some democratically-elected governments in Europe and elsewhere do have national laws that prohibit certain types of content. Our policy is to comply with the laws of these democratic governments

It seems that they draw the line on where they're willing to censor search results based on the type of government imposing the censorship.
There is a bit more to it than that. There's now a promise to no longer keep breaking binary compatibility. This part is an especially big deal.
What use is 1Gbps when you are sitting behind the GFOC?
Writing flow charts is not software architecture, it's just programming in a high level language. Software architecture, as the title is now used, simply did not exist in that era. Programs were not complex enough for it to be relevant.

The systems engineers were doing the job we now associate with programming: turning business/scientific problems into flow charts/other high level representations of algorithms which generate the solution. The programmers were merely doing the work of LabVIEW ( http://www.ni.com/labview/whatsnew/ ) by hand.

Do you consider LabVIEW to be a programmer?
Looks good!

I think it's also worth mentioning that Status objects from the standard API are different than Status objects from the search API. Status and user IDs won't necessarily match!
I've made the mistake of accrual accounting when not needed before. The current company I own for does cash based accounting, and wow, what a difference.

Accrual is easily 5 times the work for many types of businesses than cash is. You have to touch the books twice for Everything. Things you'd only do as an afterthought in cash you have to make into a careful ordeal.

To quote one accountant: Until you can afford a full-time bookkeeper, why are you thinking about doing accrual? (at 5 million revenue you have to swap to accrual or $1 million revenue and hold actual goods in inventory).

If you're worried about your ability to do projections, I'm honestly going to say that cash basis is much closer to your actual resources on hand than accrual.
Apple Doesn't Want Your iPhone App to Make Money
"Everyone who does not oversee teams that have been entrusted with off-campus test units, please leave the room..."
Brag about being small
This is what Gizmodo wants. In order for Apple to get it back, they need to state it's their property. If Apple doesn't state this, it could easily be anybody's including a manufacturer in China who made a knock off.
Usually they waive the install fee.

Connection is pretty fast to US (eg video streaming), although of course not at 1G rates. P2P is popular as is online gaming, so having high speed locally works out well.

Paradoxically, the high speed Gig / Ethernet connections are much cheaper than the old DSL slower speed broadband connections (even within the same provider!), which sucks when you're in an apartment building like mine which isn't fibre wired yet.
Apple Stock Soars Before Earnings Report, but Growing Pains Lie Ahead
I've actually always thought that employers who learned that a candidate put his or herself through college thought more highly of that person. Being able to show up daily and get through the trudge would be, to me, hugely more telling than a 'leadership position' at a club or a student union. Though, maybe that's just my lack of school spirit showing.
It hasn't got anything to do with spectrum regulation at all, since these are land lines and spectrum issues deal with mobile usage.
It's more fun to find out what you're getting Christmas day than to be told two months ahead of time.
You forgot about free software (as in speech) on our side of the versus. :D

And thanks to my efforts we have a nice stack of German style boardgames, now. We also play Diplomacy from time to time. If you want to join gaming, you can come over. Also you can participate on our pool or 9-ball or foosball ladder, and we will see who's better. ;o)

Good luck with your recruitment!

P.S. The projects you linked sound cool.
The usual way is by 'right of way' on a competitors infrastructure for a minimum fee.
I understand _why_ this is a big deal, but I can't help but feeling like if this case involved a company and its employees than there wouldn't be any controversy at all. (Employer: "They're our laptops and we can do what we want with them.")

Does anybody else feel this way? Am I way off base here?
BLock shoots block is just fine for a 4th grader - at least it is for my kid.

And I think computers are knowable. Some languages are not, but others are. Ruby has a REPL that's very good as a teaching tool. I've had a lot of luck teaching with that. C++ on the other hand, or even Java, not so much.

I know it's harder than it was, but we could change that as long as we don't decide to fail by defeating ourselves.
I think that if you pour two cups of Starbucks Chateau du Latte Liberal 2010 vintage and tell them cup A is "regular Starbucks" and cup B is "Starbucks from the 70s -- quite exclusive, really, we're lucky we could find this, they don't make it any more since the plebians can't tell the difference" you'll find that 9 out of 10 coffee snobs agree that cup B is markedly better.

I don't think Starbucks is unaware of this.
The first calculation that the author is setting up is a power calculation, which is a strong start. Based on your expectations about the effect size of the treatment (in this case, the difference between A and B), and your desired probability of correctly identifying a difference, you can figure out how large of a sample size you need to see an effect. (This is called Beta.)

If you're going to take several peeks as you run your trial and you want to be particularly rigorous, consider alpha spending functions. In medicine, alpha-spending functions are often used to take early looks trial results. 'Alpha' is what you use to determine which P-values you will consider significant. To oversimplify a bit, early peeks (before you've got your full sample size) have very extreme alphas. If your trial ultimately uses an alpha of 0.05, a prespecified early look may use an alpha of 0.001. (There are ways of calculating a meaningful alpha values; these are just examples drawn from a hat.)

By setting useful alphas and betas, you can benefit from true, potent treatment effects (if present) earlier than you might otherwise, without too much risk of identifying spurious associations.
Boy, I feel real pain for the person who lost this.

(And it'll be obvious who did, if it were truly an accident.)
A history of Steve Jobs' e-mails to Apple customers
The article is somewhat flawed. It starts with the notion that placing too much weight on "important people" is bad, because those people may not be that important afterall, if you take a broad view. That seems reasonable. The flaw however, is his suggested remedy: take a broader view to figure out who the important people actuall are.

What he misses is the real problem: in academia there is more of a value placed on who you are, than on what you do. People place more emphasis on institutional afiliation than they should. Rather than judge people on the merits of their work, too much weight is given to where you trained, and who trained you.

Nothing the author says actually addresses the core issue. In fact it seems like his issue is not being the important person. It should, however, be with how work is evaluated. Fixing that would solve the core problem.
It's Hong Kong, not China. No firewalling here.
It could be that you are coming to your coffee with preconceived notions as to its quality. I wonder what a blind tasting between Starbucks and your favorite coffee would tell us.
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Some fields, plumbing, auto mechanic, HVAC, etc... tend to require significant physical strength which will naturally select toward men.

You say "tools to minimize the job's physical impact", but the reality is that when you're trying to loosen a corroded pipe fitting in a small space with a pipe wrench, you have to apply massive torque to a very small lever in a small space, when a lug nut is frozen beyond the ability of your impact wrench, it's time to get out the breaker bar and put your back into it, when you and your co-worker need to lift the furnace up onto the stand/base you need to lift several hundred pounds.

I've done all of those things, and there's countless times where if I wasn't 6'2" and pretty strong, there's no way I could have accomplished the task.
With knowable I mean that you could at some point in the past literally know each line of code present in the memory of your machine. That's no longer the case.
Wondering why it's such a big deal to set up fast internet in metro areas in the u.s. I got 100 MBit VDSL FTTB for 35€ here in Cologne and I could get about the same speed from 3 other ISPs.
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I can't ever remember being "discouraged" from nursing or teaching. When does this happen? Did you have an experience in school where you were literally told that you shouldn't become a nurse or teacher?
I'm not sure that's a very wise tradeoff by Gizmodo. I think it's pretty clear this belongs to Apple, it's just not entirely clear if it's an accurate representation of the 4G iPhone.

Even so, couldn't Apple drag their feet and not actually confirm it's theirs until two months from now when they unveil it, and then sue the pants off of Gizmodo?
Crikey, how did that fall off my list? I have a half-written analysis sitting in my home directory. It will probably take me a few days to finish the other half: I have a couple things ahead of it in the queue and this next application isn't going to write itself.
Having one or more good mentors will certainly speed your way towards becoming a "strong developer". And all the points nostrademons makes are true.
I think you missed the point. Squeak is an environment where the source code of everything is just a few clicks away. Everything is easily tweakable by design.

I think that's even more accessible and tweakable than a system where the source code is 100's of keypresses away.
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I don't know... it works really well for deaf people who do seem to use it a hell of a lot.
What effect would moving "information services" back into "telecommunication services" have on smaller companies? What about WISPs, will they be counted?
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Don't worry, I was just very curious. I know about your recent life changing move so I figured you had your hands more than full.
Soaring into the cloud
We (that is Citrix) have some people who commute from London. And our office is just a few hundred metres away from Red Gate.

(We are also hiring. Drop me an email, if you are interested.)
True in your case. Not true with many of my friends. I run into at least one friend daily taking up an unpaid internship. Even after I lecture them on how it is illegal, they insist they are excited about it and don't really care about the money.
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This is an interesting issue and I have seen users of my app (Visual Website Optimizer) complaining that their results were statistically significant a day before but now they aren't. Justifiably, they expect significance to freeze in time once it has been achieved. However, as you say significance is also a random function and not necessarily monotonically increasing or decreasing.

The constraint here is not the math or technology rather it is users' needs. They want data, reporting and significance calculation to be done in real time. And even though we have a test duration calculator, I haven't seen any user actually making use of it. Plus many users will not even wait for statistical significance to be achieved.

Though, in VWO, we will love to wait calculating significance until end of experiment. I'm sure the users won't like it at all.
mockingbird is great, I love the "look" of it's graphics
Why is the government exempt from unpaid internship laws? The White House has tonnes of unpaid interns from what I hear.