skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2) It’s Android — which you can now make your own apps for.

I'm guessing my five year old niece, who enjoys playing games on the iPad, won't be purchasing this tablet to drop her own game on the Android market. Or, the grandmothers who own iPads - I don't think they've been clamoring to develop some bomb ass apps, if only they didn't have to learn that pesky Obj C.

Not saying that all grandmothers or five year olds can't code - just that Apple is selling an experience, one that many people enjoy. Give a person an iPad and this, and see which one they enjoy using more. Resistive screens? A huge impact on experience...
Considering electric shavers have poor mustache trimmers, maybe you should find a real mustache trimmer?

Good heavens, once a week? My stubble isn't as fast as some, but I'd look like a criminal. Do you have visible stubble by the time you shave, and just tolerate looking decidedly unshaven, or does it grow slowly?
I need to see proof that they can pay me.
> and vastly less respect when he late goes to try to do his own startup.

Can you elaborate on this?
Yeah that may be true. I wonder how big the installed base of all those python frameworks is compared to rails. Hard to estimate I suppose.

The ruby world seems to focus its innovation around the major framework whereas the python world seems to be experimenting at a more fundamental level.
The problem, it seems, is that if you have the budget for a Mac Pro, you're the sort of person who'd just buy a new one.

The odd thing, though, is that the 8 core Mac Pro I have has held its value well in the sales I've seen because it's still faster than the current 4 core, yet was considered the entry level one at the time..
Agreed! Some of the biggest successes have this in common: they've gotten away with something that wasn't obviously possible/legal. Microsoft: you can make people pay for software. Google: you can index the web (and all online information).
This doesn't work in the US because we don't have smart cards.

Edit: My point stands that this particular attack does not exist in the US and people don't need to worry about it. Existing precautions against magstripe card skimming are adequate.
i (current yc batch) may be looking to hire a designer for some freelance work. my email's on my profile.
Facts, and real, unbiased data would probably cause the major 'news' industry to loose big ratings money.
>> There's already someone in the HN comments on this story who says it can't possibly be true because he's never had the problem with his iPhone. Seriously.
> I can't seem to find that. Weird.

Further down the page http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508566
I see i see. I love having boxes to do that with. Never tried Gentoo-whats the draw to that?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1493347
Your definition of FREE is way off. Having worked for online marketing companies for years, I can tell you that exchanging your email address for something is far from free. You are essentially signup up for a never ending deluge of spam.

Of course, not everyone who asks for your email address is going to sell it to spammers, but enough are that it merits caution.
Ipad species - ipad prices
Yes, abstractly, of course. On the other hand, this sort of distribution is usually gaussian (a whole bunch of average drivers, and a few specially good and bad ones), and it is true that 80% of the people can't be above average if they are samples from a well-behaved distribution (with controlled skewness, and in the correct scale, etc)
If you ask me, most of the sound and fury around shaving and shampoo stuff for men is just the cosmetic company's trying to open a new market for crap nobody needs. They have already saturated the woman's market for wrinkle cream that doesn't work and a million shampoo products that are basically the same.

Perhaps I am just a holdover from a curmudgeonly, pre-Metrosexual era...
Racial and ethnic diversity really seem like non issues...they are pretty superficial differences within a work environment. Age, children, and sex are a little more relevant, and even those are pretty minor and only loosely correlated with traits relevant in a work environment.

Bringing a windows guy into a unix shop, or hiring a sales guy too early at a product development stage startup, or hiring a stupid or lazy person would be real diversity of a bad kind. Good diversity is bringing in people with domain expertise outside your core specialty, like having a font and calligraphy aficionado on your os team.

Superficial diversity is really overvalued.
The idea is that the multi-nationals can sell stuff to third worlders at near cost to build market share or comply with price controls and mark up 500% in another country to take advantage of subsidies, medicare reimbursements, perceived brand "value", or on-the-sly price collusion with other vendors and no screwy small fry grey market traders can get in the way of their "marketing policies".
In an 100 person office, racial and sexual homogeneity would be creepy.

In a 3 person office, who cares?
Laws of Leadership
Slightly off topic: Is there a good place to view upcoming start up events in NYC?
I'm a marketing/technical writer, and I've been wondering this too. A lot of startups do the writing themselves, it seems, and it can suffer as a result.

Do people at startups ask their buddies for recommendations? I haven't seen many posts on Craigslist from startups, and nothing on job search sites like Monster.com.
" If you've lived in the software world for a few years you know the stuff they teach you in school is irrelevant"

Knowing how this is wildly false can be the source of an enormously valuable competitive advantage. But, keep believing such nonsense stuff, guys! I'll let you know when to change your mind!
This is going to shake up everything.

No, it's not. Sensationalist BS strikes HN again.
Time and again I find myself getting back to my Thinkpad X31. It's 2004 vintage, past its five-year extended warranty, and has an Intel processor from back when their top of the line was still branded as a Pentium. It's the size of a university notebook and weighs 1.6 kg. It's as good as I can expect from the form factor.

I have a Thinkpad T60p with a gorgeous UXGA IPS I'm looking to sell because it's too much computer. I have a Thinkpad R50p with a gorgeous UXGA IPS screen I'm going to use instead, but haven't gotten around to setting it up properly yet. I have a desktop with some low-end AMD dual-core, 4 GB of RAM, and a 23" Samsung 16:9 TN screen I've been trying to use as a VM and file server, but the process isn't quite done yet either. Yes, there is a pattern.

I have a couple of Nokia tablets (N800 and N810) I use when travelling. The N810 with Opera Mobile comes decently close to duplicating how I use my X31 (after obvious allowances for size difference), but it's been going through some software and perhaps hardware difficulties lately. Still, I was impressed — it got me through two weeks without an x86 machine pretty well.

I'm currently considering removing Windows 7 from the X31 (aided by its efforts to implode and steal my files) and replacing it with a basic Linux-based OS like easypeasy. 7 is pretty great when it isn't breaking, but it's almost too much OS for my use.

One of these days I'll build my laptop for the ages: a X61s loaded up with 4 or 8 GB of RAM, a nice SSD, and a 1400x1050 IPS screen swapped in. Not yet.
I think it's fair to assume that, in this context, people are using the 'median' sense of average rather than the 'mean' sense. When someone thinks "I am a better driver than average", this probably means "If you were to rank all drivers by skill, I would be in the top half" rather than "If you take the mean of the quantified driving skill of all drivers, my quantified driving skill is above that."
Isn’t escaping usually done with a backslash (`\`) instead of a forward slash (`/`)? I don’t see how something like `$('<div />');` could interfere with that.
Financial compensation is only part of it. Most startups include longer hours and additional responsibilities that limit what else you can do with your life, such as have a relationship, spend time with friends, or work on a side project.

I'd guess you're at an established startup if you're only making ~$10k/year less than your last job in the defense industry. Pre-Series A startups are unlikely to pay even a third of what you'd make in that industry.
Here, let me quote the edit to the original post. "EDIT: Wow, Ok I get it. It's a real problem." That whirring noise you might hear when you read his edit is the sound of backpedaling.

That said, I think that the post he was replying to is overblown. I don't think everyone will remember the iPhone for having antenna issues. I think that the most outstanding thing the iPhone4 brings to the table is the display, which is awesome and ahead of its time, by just a little bit.

Let's go over this again, just so you understand the downvotes. [EDIT: I appreciate that you removed the bit where you called me and the other upvoters 'geniuses' - I would like to believe that the level of rehtoric on HN is above ad hominem attacks.]

"The iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue will be remembered as one of the biggest avoidable but unforeseen design errors of all time, I think." This guy thinks that the antenna issue is going to be very memorable. I personally disagree with what he thinks, but it is what he thinks.

"iPhone 4 owner as of day 1 and I haven't had an issue. I can't imagine that this is true." This guy either can't imagine that it's true that the other guy thinks that the antenna issue is going to be very memorable, or he can't believe it's true that the issue he can't reproduce even exists.

He is wrong on both counts. While certainly the original poster can change his mind about how important the antenna issue will be, at the moment he wrote that, is is true that he thought it was huge. At the moment he wrote that, the issue as described by Consumer Reports and now Engadget, exists and is true.
Are you trying to argue that Fiction is sometimes not believable, are actually the reverse?
First comment:

> The iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue will be remembered as one of the biggest avoidable but unforeseen design errors of all time, I think.

The comment you're linking is a response to the above:

> iPhone 4 owner as of day 1 and I haven't had an issue. I can't imagine that this is true.

Seems obvious that the "I can't imagine that to be true" is a response to "remembered as one of the biggest avoidable but unforeseen design errors of all time"
Google Summer of Code BoF at USENIX
While they may be the most successful to date, but Apple isn't the first or only company to release a tablet style of device.

That's not counting the pre-announced devices from every one else.
Yes, Apple restricting tethering apps make the other apps better.

I don't doubt that some Apple special sauce makes it easier to ignore the crappy apps, or that they are removed, but to imply that Apple's fart machine apps are better because you can't freely tether your device with 3rd party apps is just silly.
Actually, I see two very important use cases that don't seem to be coming up.

1) This should allow devs to get to something resembling a MVP quickly to validate a new idea.

2) I think this will make android the preferred platform for mobile vertical apps., the kind of one-off solutions that are not profitable to bigger players.
If you are founding CEO of a startup which fails honorably, or exits, investors and future team members pretty much ascribe all the good accomplishments of the company to you personally, and think you have a good shot at doing it again. A non CEO founder gets a lesser share of the resulting glory, plus way less name recognition.

Only rarely and with big successes will vp eng, product designer, non founding cto, etc get much cred from a startup. If it fails, ceo can usually easily get a job (sometimes as eir or though investor portfolio companies)
Hm, I guess I don't buy that at all. Stalin in particular.
I like to find successful eBay auctions to gauge value but they're highly variable since it's not commonly sold kit and I've upgraded it to 8GB of memory, more hard drives, and what not.

For an 8 core 2.8GHz Mac Pro with 8GB memory, I've seen everything from £1500ish to £2200 (which is more than it cost new!! - I suspect it's because the older 8 core Xeons are faster than the current 4 core ones that replaced them). Given that, I'd take £1500 for it.

On the 30" ACD front, it's as-new, little used over the last year, no dead pixels, the same as the current £1199 one basically. I think I'd take £700 for it just because it's taking up a lot of space.

On the 17" MBP, I haven't done my research yet - it's a stock 17" 2.66GHz unibody MBP with 4GB RAM, no dead pixels, heathly battery. Cost £1799 new, I think. No good auctions to watch on eBay it seems, someone has the same machine for £1439 BIN. If I had to stab in the dark, though, it's probably worth £1300.
You need help.
This is nice but almost all of these depend on an already existing product with a significant userbase. My presumption is that most people applying for YC or similar seed-stage groups don't have an existing product. So that makes addicted customers, revenue, etc. irrelevant in this context.

I am looking forward to seeing what the author considers "competitive advantages". The only one I can think of is the team behind it. That's all you have when you're starting out anyway.
I think the process for creating TLDs is multi-year, so it'll be a while.
from sf import alex
+1 for staying in OP's story mode :)
What are those scrambled pages of Al-Qaeda’s English language magazine?
YouTube goes beyond HD with 4k-pixel video
This is probably another advantage to the Android "lots of phones" strategy vs. putting all your eggs in one basket strategy. Even if you really like Apple's products, it's not like there's a good alternative phone you can turn to that's still an Apple product. While with Android, if a severe problem with a particular phone comes out, you can always just pick another phone.

In the future, it might make more sense for Apple to release several flavors of phones, diversify what they are selling, rather than lumping their entire strategy with one product that might have unforeseen problems.
Shhh. If they think well-heeled housewives are buying it, they might keep making it longer.
Startups And Baseball: For The Love Of The Game
iPad Design Resources
The sentence about working from 11:00 am until 2:00 am is probably the source of confusion there, if you don't read the part about taking breaks. 11-2 * 6/week = 90.

My work week could be described the same way, but my breaks are for 2 or 3 hours each, and with no commute (which most people don't count in their work week), it's pretty comparable. If you enjoy what you do, those two late hours working uninterrupted are great.
Totally depends on your frame of mind/expectations. I had a lot of fun reading that article. Nothing condescending to the audience at all.
I currently work with a guy who is a master of monetization - and he's completely tech-braindead. Startups chase him down with countless lucrative hiring offers every day.

You get good at monetization and you become worth more than your weight in gold.
That goes way beyond my idea, which would make sense, since the Skytap target market is a lot larger and more profitable than what I was thinking of. Kudos to them. I'd like to hear more about how they got started - are there any articles or interviews you can recommend?
Please, no more Whisky Tango Foxtrot error messages
I agree, only because the difference is pretty subtle:

while EXPR { ... }
repeat while EXPR { ... }

This does two different things and the word "repeat" doesn't really imply the difference in semantics.
A good eng in defense (at the level needed to be a startup founder) should be making 150 uncleared to 250 secret to 300 ts or project lead or more if deployable. Working 40 hour weeks (well, working 5 hour weeks with 35 hours of meetings, admin, paperwork, and overhead)

A pre series a eng is making 30 to 60 if lucky. At series a, maybe 80 to 100.

Defense is almost a perpetual job, whereas the half life of a pre series a startup is maybe 3 months, 1 yr for series a.

(apologies for formatting, on iPad)
"I think it's fair to assume that, in this context, people are using the 'median' sense of average rather than the 'mean' sense."

Not "fair" at all, and not at all appropriate. Still want the average, the mean, the expectation because of the law of large numbers and the best L^2 approximation property of the mean. Besides, often in practice, e.g., for even positive integer n independent, identically distributed samples from a distribution absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure, the median is not even well defined.

The median is good for politically correct news stories about data from political economics.
I am returning mine because of proximity sensor problem. Exchanged twice, still having issue. Sometimes I feel that my ears are not designed for iPhone 4 or thats probably what Steve Jobs would say.
I disagree. The truth value of the EXPR determines whether you repeat, meaning do an additional time. I agree that it may not be the immediate interpretation, but I think the vocabulary makes sense.
Fibers that can hear and sing
So you'll be OK with some country right now doing Holocaust over some minority, or will you protest that?

That's definitely not okay.

If you'll protest, why? And why you don't protest against all the governments that do this all evil things?

Hell, I only have 112 useful waking hours a week. If I tried to protest over every egregious thing perpetrated by a government, that would be a full time occupation. Heck, just keeping track of those things would be.

But telling me Holocaust wasn't evil makes me think you wouldn't mean it repeating, and that makes me hate you a little

AHEM! If you read the parent comments, you'll find that I am advocating the applicability of the term evil!

Your comment is so full of putting words into other's mouths, grasping for straws, and unwarranted leaps, I don't know where to begin.
Whether and how features matter is a pretty fuzzy field.

One thing is certain though, features and success is not by any metrics in a one to one relationship with each other.
American Democracy is about the consent of the governed.

Except, the USA government does not obtain consent before governing a person.
Ooc: new awesome language with site redesign, guide, and screencast
Gary's Guide is a good tech events calendar with a lot of startup stuff.
That's pretty funny stuff.

Just a small quip: There's a tiny bit of side scrolling for me . I'm running 1024x768. If you change the margin on your #wrap div to margin: -10px auto 0 auto; it'll center it.
OTOH, pills psychologically enforce the idea that you are taking a drug, whereas drinking coffee just feels like another beverage.

I only get generic caffeine pills, mostly because generic caffeine pills are amusingly called "Stay Awake". I wish all drugs were named in this manner.
Does anybody want to get together to solve one of these? This seems kind of interesting and would be neat to develop.
Because the web-client would suck compared.

And yes they do plenty with the native UI, it's just in the details. Those details that matter.
HN doesn't have that many users and it has performance problems every few weeks, so I wouldn't use it as a good example. AFAIK almost the entire working set is cached in RAM.
This is a problem best solved by the car UI, rather than phone/music player. Steering wheel controls (and/or voice commands) are FAR less distracting than any ipod sized device.
I read "EDIT: Wow, Ok I get it. It's a real problem." as clarification, not backpedaling.
Remember to Thank Your Star Players
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Thanks. I'm the developer for Musikpitch. I'll check it out and if you clearly see the fix in the code let me know.
That's because Python is actually used extensively in the West outside the context of web development. Ruby really isn't. Rails became popular, and people decided to learn Ruby so they could use Rails. Most people who choose Python web frameworks do so because they are already familiar with Python.
this is similarly ridiculously high.
Social Security pays a disproportionate amount to those who are well off.

I agree with this criticism of Social Security and this basis for saying that Social Security is distinct from welfare. The reason I tend to regard Social Security as a welfare program is that it is, I think by general agreement, an ENTITLEMENT program, in other words a program that a subsidized recipient can draw from with only minimal reference to individual characteristics of the recipient. (You disagree with me on that point, in part, but the degree to which Social Security payments to recipients are linked to taxpayer "contributions" to a Social Security account is only partial, not on exact actuarial principles.)
Counting is not one of the 3 commandments of finance ;)
True enough, but not everyone needs (pr wants, considering price) a Lexus, some people only need and want a Kia, as long as it meets certain requirements.

However, in the market today, for all practical purposes, almost all you can get in the tablet space is the Lexus (iPad), when a lot of people actually want a Kia (in this case the Pandigital Novel).

So as time goes on, this is definitely relevant to Apple. I wouldn't classify it as a "threat" quite yet, but over time products like this will at the very least remove a great deal of their pricing power.
What about the numerous tablets on dealextreme, many go for about 100$, run android and include 7" or 8" screen.

http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.tablet

Maybe I'll try one out, although 10" screen would really be a selling point for me.
Use the Force Luke. (Zzzaap)
I wrote them at the beginning, but with 7K visitors / day (24k pageviews / day), I haven't had to contribute in quite awhile :-D
When did 5% of 50M stop being a lot of money?

edit: I think something far more deceiving is employee #75 receiving 10k shares and the impression they're walking away with gobs of money after a big sale.
Can you link to any citations of this, I'm really curious.
Drat... foiled at my own game!
Cooperative quadcopter Object Lifting
Django did receive Guido's bless: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/aug/07/guidointervi...
I have a 13" aluminum MacBook with external display, keyboard, and mouse, and highly recommend that setup. I downsized from a 15" PowerBook to 13" MacBooks long ago, and with the aluminum ones ("Pro" or not) they are fantastic machines.
Can you contact me at the address in my profile? Sorry to pollute the thread, but you don't have any contact info in your profile :(

I'm in a similar situation, and would love to break into the product management area.
True, but the software is so bad, it almost would have to be out of spite, they could do so much better for the same cost.
Same reason most people prefer point-and-click games to text adventures. With text it's not obvious what to write next. With a GUI, you can roam around clicking on things until you spot something that looks sensible - it's like Lego. Additionally, you don't have to worry about making typos and not discovering them until compile time.

Code is only a means to an end. If you can achieve the result you want without it, then it's just an obstruction.