skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'll just launch the new phone on AT&T (as good will, a concession) and do the Verizon version in time for Christmas, then sync back up during the next refresh cycle.

EDIT: Justification is that off the top of my head Apple has never refreshed a major product in six months, except for speed bumps. Apple had to move quickly by launching the iPhone 4 now and not waiting for summer to launch both versions of iPhone 5, as Android is gaining a lot of steam. This should satisfy impatient buyers who would be very upset if their new purchase would be outdated in just six months. Meanwhile Apple has had no problem refreshing after Christmas (Macworld, new iPad launch impending) because they are obsoleting mostly gifts.

Secondly the staggered iPhone 5 launch would provide Apple good negotiation leverage with AT&T without giving a lot up. This could be good for higher monthly kickbacks or iPad data prices. It also lessens the work load on antenna engineers.

Given this, it's very likely that the Verizon iPhone 5 will have pent up demand by the September music event, will cause a bigger splash in the media, and have it be the top phone on both carriers in time for Christmas. And it won't cheese of Verizon customers who went for the 4 in February.
God forbid HN readership and participation increase.
I've been thinking of dropping my AT&T iPhone 4 for a Droid Bionic on Verizon later this year. Given that, I'm really hoping they'll be charging extra for the wifi hotspot feature like they do with Android, or if they're not, making it free for Android users as well.

(edit: To be clear, the liveblogs I've glanced at haven't specifically said if it will be free or not, and Verizon apparently won't talk about plan pricing...)
Taking notes definitely helps. The problem is I always forget to revisit them. That's exactly why me and some friends built thoughtback.com. It's a micro-journaling tool with mac and web apps that automatically re-exposes you to your thoughts.

PS - I'm really not sure if it's appropriate to post a link to a service that's relevant to the article in the comments if I made it. Should I not do this again?
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Indeed, (relatively) risk-free interest rates available for modest amounts of money currently do not exceed the rate of inflation; money in the bank is money declining in value.
In the "redirect harder" section, the solution given to a program that needs an explicitly named file for standard input is:

echo hello | python crap-prog.py /proc/self/fd/0

In zsh the same thing can be accomplished with a more concise syntax:

python crap-prog.py <(echo hello)

And, if your process wanted to seek the file (which isn't possible to do with a simple redirection of stdin), you could do:

python crap-prog.py =(echo hello)

The main difference is that here, behind the scenes zsh creates and deletes a temporary file with the contents of the stdout of the program between the =().

Another neat thing you can do in zsh to solve the original problem is to create a global alias for stdin:

alias -g STDIN=/proc/self/fd/0

Then, whenever you typed "STDIN" on the command line, zsh would convert it to "/proc/self/fd/0". Then to make the exact equivalent of the original solution (but one that's easier to remember and type), you could simply write:

echo hello | python crap-prog.py STDIN

A regular alias won't work here, since regular aliases only expand when they're the first part of a command. Global aliases will expand anywhere in the command line. So you just have to be a bit more careful with them.

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The solution in the "phantom progress bar" section is cute, and a good demonstration of what's possible to do with /proc/$PID/fdinfo, but you could just use a ready made solution like either of these:

http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
No I don't think so. Everwhere else on the world is GSM. That confused me when I first read about USA mobile phones, I wondered what this CDMA thing was.
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The thing that stuck out was that all of the 32 startups and the 20 reasons chubbybrain gave for their failure could be summed up in "lack of information." Lack of information regarding markets, how to approach investors, location, etc.

If you look at people / startups who have succeed you can always trace it to an unquenchable desire to think/collect/process more information about their problem area. Sometimes this means doing a phd at Stanford on information aggregation (google) and sometimes it means living your startup for a year (airbnb).

A/B Testing, mentors, books, blogs, YC, everything is about taking information out of the ether, processing it so that you can use it for your startup, and making progress.

After all, "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." ~Niels Bohr

By making the mistakes you collect information for the next time.
This is an early version of the site so there's still a lot of work to do to explain this stuff on the site itself. To answer your questions:

- All monitoring is from EC2's us-east-1 region.

- I don't track the location of the sites, other than specifying the vendor.

- Data is generated by an open source tool called Stella. I'm not currently tracking DNS lookups but probably will eventually.

- Tests with errors are not included in the response times.

The specific response time is less interesting than looking at how a site performs over time (the number and duration of downtime, errors, etc). There are a lot of rabbit holes in testing so what I'm focusing on now is the simplest possible solution that works.
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I've got to imagine he's adjusting expectations and trying to frame the conversation before the likely stories about how much Gibbs is going to make in the private sector.

After Peter Orszag's move to the private sector generated a non-trivial brouhaha, it'd be more surprising if he didn't.
You know this for a fact? Sure would like to see some evidence.
I don’t really understand why you hope that they will charge iPhone users for the hotspot feature. That seems wholly unrelated to your purchasing decision.
Thanks, I'll consider it. Always more to A/B test :)
Some people like to collect karma and will submit everything they possibly can. Opinions will probably differ on what percentage of blame belongs to the submitter versus the upvoters.
>Incoming calls will interrupt data activity. (Will interrupt hotspot)

Wow, this reminds me of being on dial-up in the 1990s.
Major league athlete, regular on a TV show or star in movies, former press secretary/lobbyist, best-selling author, multi-hit-album singer/band, music mogul/producer, real-estate agent in an expensive area.

I bet there are 100s of jobs where the top salaries are over two million. There are very few who can get them, though.
Definitely but I want to hit some other big milestones before charging for anything.
Reminds me of the Chicago professor who was complaining about repealing the tax breaks for "rich" people[1] (his household income was in the 250k range). As a bunch of commentators pointed out he felt like he was just scraping by because he was attempting to live the life of someone earning 350k+ not the life of someone earning 150k+.

A growing trend is how quickly the income of those at the top is increasing relative to those at the bottom[2] and the disconnect this brings[3]. At what point does someone earning minimum wage stop and think "How exactly is someone working in a hedge fun worth tens of thousands of me in yearly salary alone?". Would they push for legislative solutions? Can you even use something as blunt as the tax code for this?

[1] His blog posts were taken down but you can see commentary:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/todd-henderson-rich...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/in-defen...
[2]http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/ceo-pay-historic-lead-bestb... - for reference $1 in 1989 is worth around $1.70 now so inflation does not account for a near 6x increase.
[3]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise...
Ye gods, can't you read until my third sentence between smashing the reply button and "correcting" me?
There are large CDMA networks in China, not sure whether or not they're compatible with Verizon's (though I would guess they are).
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> Incoming calls will interrupt data activity.

I don't see why people make a big deal out of this. How often do you really need to talk AND use data at the same time? I've never, ever, ever, ever, ever had to or even had the inclination that I wished I could. I think it's one of those features that sounds cool, but in reality no one really uses.
Cool. Hiding checkins is a very popular use case.
If she's doing good work but is a net drain on everyone around her then yes, the possible solutions are to 'fix' her or isolate her.
And as in the video the mute switch is positioned differently, meaning it won't line up on all the cases out there already.

Looks like Verizon is acknowledging this on their FAQs:

Most accessories should work, however you may find that cases and covers could be different depending on the product manufacturer.

http://support.vzw.com/faqs/iphone/iphone_faq.html
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I wonder how much they'll charge for the mobile hotspot feature? Earlier last year, when they were desperately trying to unload Palm Pres, they were throwing that capability in for free... but I somehow doubt that that will be the case with the iPhone. But I'd love to be proven wrong, as it's been an incredibly useful feature.
Will do! Always appreciate feedback. Just tweet @slipstre_am or email feedback at slipstre.am
I don't even make 80K USD, but living in the UK and thus with more vacation time (25 days), even I take at least 3 holidays abroad every year.
Worldwide CDMA coverage: http://www.cdg.org/worldwide/
I'm surprised at how these mindless studies keep on finding that if you don't eat well when you're a child, your brain won't have enough resources to fully develop. I thought we knew this from a long time ago.

How 'bout they do a study of how to feed the poor instead?
As many other replies pointed out, the answer is most definitely 'yes'.

You can easily use any Java libraries from Scala and Scala provides a number of tools including JavaConversions and JavaConverters to automatically convert to and from Scala and Java collection objects for easy interop.
Sort-of-dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2092273.
Before the subprime crash in 2007, interest rates were well in that range. I had an ING savings account(regular savings account, not a CD) with a rate that was earning me $7 per day, as opposed to now in which I get maybe $2 per month.
I was at this great talk at London's Ruby User Group last night. In it Sean O'Halpin of BBC R&D talks about using ruby and a message-processing architecture to extract information from the twitter garden- and firehose API.
Maybe, but probably not comfortably. After taxes, that 172K will be about 120K. Even if you were to somehow make 8% interest on your money for the rest of your life, that's still only $800 a month.
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but Verizon does offer international roaming in a few places (Mexico, etc.). It's nowhere near as good as AT&T's international roaming, but, as other commenters have posted, GSM is far more prevalent outside the US than CDMA.
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There are GSM networks in the rest of the world yes, but that is not the only technology outside the US. There are CDMA networks in other countries as well. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies#Other_Regi...
My idea of being rich is when you don't have to work to maintain your lifestyle (as long as you are happy with that lifestyle--being a miserable homeless person doesn't count). The problem with a majority of high-earners is that they have too many on-going expenses that force them to keep working.
Because some of it will be based on random effects from the world around you, from unexpected things in your diet, from culture, from the TV, books, etc. you are exposed to, and many, many other things.

We don't generally set out to raise super-intelligent people pushed to fulfil every last drop of their potential.

And generally speaking, I'm fairly sure that's a good thing.
There's a remarkable number of tools that most people don't know about that are all designed to aid in decision making among a large number of choices (or even two choices). They sometimes sound quaint or silly, but even a pro/con list can be a very valuable exploration of a decision process.

For more complex problems, the pseudo-rigor of something like a Pugh Matrix can be very helpful. I often find myself using them when deciding on things with a large number of choices -- like electronics purchases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_Matrix

The result is that I usually either buy nothing, or buy the product from Apple.

I think Apple does so well by shortcutting this kind of decision matrix and making sure they are just at the top of a certain segment of the population's results. Even if they come out only one point higher than everybody else, that's a sale. They can optimize to target people where "price of product" has a low weight in this kind of matrix and can use that from a business perspective to maximize profit. It seems to work, they are wildly profitable despite not being a leader in any particular market in terms of raw numbers shipped. All their competitors end up operating on desperately thin margins because they try and optimize to win at any cost. It's actually kind of a cool hack.
200k isn't that hard. Just go into management. You don't even need to be that high in a big company (even located in a low income region) to pass 200k.
Maybe you're using the hotspot (downloading something, streaming, skype) and you get a call.
Hopefully there will be a reasonably priced unlimited data plan, especially with the WiFi hotspot support.
If I had one year of $172,000 income, I could bank it and live off the interest for the rest of my life.

Er, how? Assuming a very optimistic 4% return after inflation and taxes, that's only $7k/year.
Verizon iPhone Launches with Mobile Hotspot and Redesigned Antenna
It's actually not monitoring redirects. The response times for justspotted.com are based on:
http://www.justspotted.com/radar/
Actually it's one limitation about CDMA that I hate. I would love to use one of the reverse lookup apps to get details about unknown callers but I can't because the operation of receiving the call means it can't simultaneously do the lookup.

I also hate having some sync operation get stopped because I get a call.

It's more annoying than you think but not a total deal breaker.
I've often gone through the steps of saying "hold on" while on a call and launching Safari, Mail or some other app to check something that was being discussed (e.g. "Did you get my email?" "Not yet, I'll check now").

It'd be worse if you're using it as a hotspot and you're sharing the hotspot with other people.

It's not essential, but it's not useless either.
Let's say you have 5 people connected to your phone's wireless hotspot and a call comes, everyone lose their connectivity
It's an OK metric for project activity.
I use it all the time. I'll often be on the phone (using a headset) and pull up information online, or send out an e-mail to someone on the con-call, or pull up a new document in DropBox, or.....

Add in using it a Wifi hotspot, and getting your VPN connection/download/SSH session/whatever interrupted every time your phone rings would be REALLY annoying.
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US based sprint uses CDMA.
There maybe exceptions to the 'you can use all Java libraries' at runtime. I'm unable to use a Scala class annotated with JPA annotations with Eclipselink. The same class works fine with Hibernate.
That's what he meant by #3 :)
I don't think so, and I wouldn't want it to.

I don't read it that much at work, but do more so when I am working at home, and sometimes on the train. It is my go-to place to find out what is going on.
ING Direct gives you 110bps, 125bps fixed rate if you are willing to tie up your money for at least 2 years. Several other internet-only banks will do the same. As for 250-500bps, I have no clue where to get that. Maybe he meant you can get 5% with a S&P ETF?
The argument is really simple. Big banks (and the bigger of the enterprises) benefit disproportionately from cheap or free money. These businesses are receiving real goods in exchange for "printed" money.

Tyler Cowen's argument is less strict than that though: big banks (or related enterprises) benefit disproportionately from taking high risks. Individuals or small companies would go bankrupt, while big companies are saved with printed money. This money will displace regular consumers from the market, making them relatively poorer (than otherwise).
"Verizon's CDMA network doesn't support simultaneous voice and data as with the GSM version"

This is probably a deal killer for me. I do this quite frequently. I also remember on the old edge network data activity sometimes sent callers to voicemail, which is unacceptable. Hopefully Verizon does not have that issue as well.

My biggest hope is that competition forces AT&T to be less ridiculous about data pricing for people with multiple devices, tethering, hotspots, etc.
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#1 is a huge open field. You can live almost anywhere and not pay a lot in education and accomplish #1. Not that it's easy. It takes a lot of work and some talent and some luck, but there isn't the educational entry costs of #3 and #4.
I wasn't accounting for cost of living, only taxes.
My guess would be batter life. The first generation of LTE chips probably suck that thing dry in a couple hours.
I don't know of any who take it seriously enough to teach formal classes in self discovery or making friends and influencing people.

Here ya go:

http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.html?course_code=CRMD7001
http://www.eastern.edu/academic/cas/depts/missions_and_anthr... - MIS260

http://las.alfred.edu/psychology/ - "Life skills
Students in Alfred University's psychology program learn about human behavior, develop self-discovery skills, and learn to think critically about themselves and others."

Self discovery is often an important part of a Psychology or Counseling major and "influencing people" aka Negotiation is taught at business and law schools across the country. I even took a corporate course in it 3 years ago.
I routinely send my wife pictures* (via MMS or e-mail) while we're talking on the phone.

*Not what you think... usually pictures of the cat or what I'm cooking.
Additionally, if that income has a label of 'capital gains' slapped on it, it's only taxed at up to 15%, rather than up to 35%.
No custom pre-loaded Verizon software on iPhone
"More important than great offices, a cool logo and a function spreadsheet is a sustainable, differentiated, profitable idea on which to build your business."

What is meant by a "function spreadsheet"? Is it literally referring to a spreadsheet (like Excel or whatever)? I took this to mean use the simplest tools you can at the start, in contrast to focusing on your business process instead of your business.
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#7. Though this example may be hold true, I don't always relate corporate promotions to being 'good' at something. One thing that I've definitely learning is the people you know (your 'visibility') is as important (maybe more) than what you know.
Spakman, I'm very excited about this. And I say this as someone who's writing his own ruby shell/shell-complement. Mine is mostly intended to be invoked from Bash the way you'd invoke grep, though it can also be run interactively, where it behaves like irb. The one clever thing I did is allow you to avoid escaping by putting your ruby command after a # on the bash command-line. Bash then ignores everything after the #, and crush (my shell) grabs the last line in the bash history and evaluates the part after the #.

I will definitely be trying out your shell. If you're curious about mine (feel free to steal code, no promises that everything works as committed):
https://github.com/afiler/crush
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I'm in Australia, where all our carriers are GSM and have the iPhone (in addition to it being sold unlocked directly from Apple), so I don't care about Verizon or CDMA, but I would love to know if the hotspot feature will make it to the standard iPhones, even if AT&T doesn't like it.
I work out of coffeeshops occasionally and use my Nexus One as a wifi hotspot to avoid unencrypted public networks (which is free for me on T-Mobile by the way). Its awfully nice to be able to take a phone call and hold on to the data connection so that I can continue working while on the call if need be.
Shouldn't the headline here be Scala.compareTo(Java)?
@newsyc100 ftw.
And how does that work with the switch to LTE? It seems that AT&T eventually wants to invest in LTE infrastructure, too (but HSDPA can offer at least nearly the speed Verizon’s LTE has to offer at the moment so I don’t think they need to hurry). Will the US converge on one standard? (At least in the sense that building a phone that works both with AT&T and Verizon gets easier?)

It also seems like Verizon really needs to hurry up with LTE (I don’t even know whether you should call it 4G if HSDPA can be nearly as fast) because CDMA doesn’t go very fast. AT&T doesn’t have that same speed gap because they are using UTMS which can go much faster. (The current iPhone is limited to 7.2 Mbps, though.)
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Cached copy (site is down):

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>A fun fact ignored by most people

People aren't ignoring it. The two things aren't related to each other. Alex Rodrieguez makes so much money because tickets to see him play cost so much (especially compared to what it cost to see Babe Ruth).

For the situation to be the same Rodrieguez would need to be making the same as Ruth (inflation adjusted) but the managers to be making 100+ times more money.

What's actually happened is prices have gone up. The difference you see is that certain professions have much better representation to ensure they get their share of the increased profits.

EDIT: A bit of point clarification.
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One thing is a huge surprise here: wifi hotspot.

If you follow Gruber, he's made the point that Apple doesn't consider this a new device, and that Apple will probably sell it as the exact same device to customers. This is one significant area where it's not, though - if you buy an iPhone on Verizon, you get this feature. If you buy one on AT&T, you don't.

Apple to date has stood pretty firmly against the idea of carrier differentiation. There is nothing about the iPhone on AT&T that reminds you that it is an AT&T device, no preinstalled apps, no logos, nothing.

So that's why the hotspot is a surprise to me. I'm sure that Apple has been pushing for this on AT&T all along, but it seems to be a chip in the carrier fragmentation armor.
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The hardest thing about decision making is not taking things personally.

- Kevin Hale (@dreamface)

http://startupquote.com/post/2699274777
Just a quick search shows me 2.39% for 100k in a 5 year cd. (I can think of any number of reasons you might not want to do this.)

I'm guessing for a million you could do better.

Perhaps you'd only be at the lower bound of the numbers I gave but the point still stands that compound interest is what is making the rich richer.
What super-interesting properties are you thinking of? Antimatter has been pretty pedestrian for a while now.