skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way you phrased the initial objection, made it sound like our current state (whereby anybody with internet access can launch a webapp with global reach for practically nothing) is some sort of insignificant fluke rather than part of a trend of continual improvement.
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Starting 499$ ... Nice.
We just approved a short term spending bill to push off the government shut down. Yay, us.

However it should be noted that if the government shuts down for long enough, we won't pay our bond obligations. This would be serious. Very serious. In fact the last time there was a shut down there were two, with a small gap in the middle as everyone agreed to a temporary emergency measure that avoided missing bond obligations.

This time around as shutdown looms, we'll see whether Congress keeps this in mind. They are playing a game of chicken. But if the game of chicken results in the USA failing to pay our bond obligations on time, even once, we instantly lose the perception that US treasuries are absolutely risk free investments. If that happens, our desirability as a currency goes down, our interest rates go up, and our dollar is likely to drop relatively quickly. The real nightmare is that this becomes an accelerating spiral.

The odds of this scenario is unlikely. Washington is full of grandstanding politicians, but those politicians do have intelligent advisers. The consequences of this one are rather dramatic and well understood. But occasionally I worry about it.
That innocuous phrase "hire a human being" masks serious problems for a world without workplace privacy.

The modern world's move to capitalism from feudalism, circa 1800-1900 involved a move from dictators (feudal lords) who could demand anything from their vassals on a life-long basis to a world in which workers and professional entered into definite contracts with employers for limited purposes.

Capitalism, even according to its proponents, is an adversarial system. It's just hopefully a adversarial system to brings benefits to all concerned at the end of the day. But you don't get those benefits if you surrender in the middle of the day - "negotiate not and ye shall not receive..."

It's problematic if your employers has demanded to hire a "human being of their choice" rather than a human being who will competently accomplish a codified job in a competent manner.

Try the phrase "I don't see what's wrong an employer giving a human being a job evaluation" in contrast to "I expect to be evaluated based on my ability to accomplish a job" For a human being, "I didn't like their hair" might be legitimate as a complaint. But

Your employer is giving you something limited a wage. You owe them something limited too -

This is as much for the benefit of the employer as the employee. An employer who works according to objective criteria is going to accomplish their money-making tasks better than one that gives in to arbitrary criteria and demands. Sometimes it the employees who need to remind the employers of this.
You could both move forward together, rather than ensuring that someone is always ahead and another is farther behind...

A rising tide lifts all boats.
No retina display on the iPad 2 or did I miss that?

If not, it makes sense because that would likely greatly increase cost and power, but it would've been cool to see.
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How Facebook will be committing 'commercide' on July 1st
What's the conversion rate from HN karma points to Schrute Bucks?
I understand if you don't want to share, but what was the reason behind you and your girlfriends break-up? Is it possible that it has something to do with the way you feel now?
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From the BigCo perspective, mentoring is coming back. Mentoring/apprenticeship used to be the way all engineers started out, but it seemed to slowly fade away over time in a lot of organizations.

Now we're seeing more HR/management training people teaching that mentoring and coaching new hires (esp. those just out of school) is a better way to go. It gets them up and running faster and you can brainwash^H^H^H^H I mean teach them they way you want them to do things.

Personally, I think it's a good thing.
Blame the poor for being poor?
By cleaner, do you mean more verbose? For example, the well known phrase for average in J is (average=: +/ % #). You would have no problem assigning names to the parts of the function, i.e. (sum=: +/), (divide=: %), (tally=: #) and defining the function as (average=: sum divide tally). It is tempting to learn J this way, but once you are familiar with the primitives, it makes more sense to just use them. You can pack a lot of thought into very few character, which is one of J's strengths.
Yes, this reminds me of one elderly gentlemen who always called his web browser, and the Internet as a whole, "Yahoo". That was a few years ago.
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not. same 1024x768 res.
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I wasn't trying to say phone malware didn't exist, my point was more that comparing the latest trends in Android exploits to browser exploits didn't really match up. I could have done a better job of saying that.
While potentially true, this article has many flaws that seriously weaken it's points.

FTA, "software reproduces without cost and never wears out. This is unique in human history, and we have not yet come to terms with its downside."

One straightforward example of something that is a lot like software, in many ways, is literature. It is said that every author since the 17th century has had to kill off the ghost of Shakespeare. Even before that: "Paradise Lost" begins with several pages describing how it's better than the Greek and Roman epics.

In effect, every author of serious intentions has to grapple with their predecessors. Some of the truly great works have explicitly (through content or structure or character) had to kill off the Bard.

Heck, one of my favorite plays is, "Rosencranz and Guildenstern are dead," which very clearly is killing off Shakespeare's characters.

Not to say there isn't some truth in the article, but that the author seems to mistakenly believe that software is totally different than anything else humanity has dealt with before. It's not completely true.
The dollar demise seems to be in vogue nowadays thanks in no small part to QE I and II. I guess it makes for good headlines, especially when gold is over $1430.

To those of you that may be interested in financial commentaries outside of mainstream I suggest the following:

-	Mish [1]
-	The automatic earth [2]
-	Max Keiser [3]
-	Jesse's Café Américain [4]

These can be classified more or less so in three different camps: inflationist, deflationist, and stagflation. But inflation/deflation here does not mean price increase, but credit expansion/contraction. Also, these blogs are all against the status quo, hence their non-mainstream designation. For that there is WSJ.

For starters, at the automatic earth [2], Illargi and Stonleigh give very detailed analysis of the current situation taking into account credit availability and peak oil for example. They argue that we will hit a deflation period (i.e., credit contraction) before any hyperinflation destroys the dollar.

Mish [1] is also in the deflationist camp and provides excellent commentary on current financial news. US centric but with good international coverage.

Max Keiser [3] is an inflationist. I believe that he has called correctly gold and silver trends (up and up) for the past decade. He’s a very vocal anti-to-big-to-fail commentator. I think that he’s currently spearheading a movement to get people to buy silver bullion in order to put JP Morgan out of business given their alleged silver shorts. Mish, while a good friend of Max, disagrees and thinks that JP Morgan is most likely well hedge against silver.

Jesse [4] provides a thoughtful market analysis, especially with gold and silver. He thinks that the US is going into stagflation for quite a while.

[1] Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

[2] The Automatic Earth

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/

[3] Max Keiser — Markets Finance Scandal

http://www.maxkeiser.com/

[4] Jesse's Café Américain

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
I don't understand it either.

The iPad isn't a phone. It's all about the apps, so unlike Android phones the number of apps are important. Apple is selling apps like hotcakes so it doesn't make sense to say apps aren't important for a tablet.

Xoom and Galaxy Tab doesn't have a real selection of apps, so what's the selling point? They're not cheaper.
So this meta-giftcard has even more hassle than a normal gift card, but without the shred of thoughtfullness that buying a standard gift card has. It's just as thoughtless as cash, but super-inconvenient. I don't get it.
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Are saying they manage to associate the gmail account and Facebook account themselves?

Are they truly unassociated or is there are name in the Facebook account that your friends could use to find the gmail account?
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Any word on build in memory?
Why would you buy the new version of any product only one year after you bought the last version? That seems just crazy to me.
Did anyone else notice that the "sensors" section doesn't list anything for the 3g version? Is this an oversight or is it correct?
The piano on Garage Band is touch-sensitive (dynamic volume depending how hard you press)? That almost is, dare I say it... magical.

All in all, goalposts shifted once again. Can't wait to see what sort of games hit the AppStore (although I suppose backwards compatibility will hinder the uptake of the '9x better' graphics)
They already killed them. They removed them from the latest beta.
The rows with specs that don't differ between the two versions span two columns. Look at the backgrounds. It's true for Display, Chip, Cameras, and Sensors.
The problem is that the objective standards are harder to measure then you would think.

How are you judging the urban teacher against the suburban one? Is the kid who is getting abused at home ever going to match the one with two great parents? What percentage of your students eat breakfast? What percentage of your students have English as their first language?

What percentage of the individual class are troublemakers? What tools are teachers allowed to use to subdue them? Principals differ on this.

Are there bad teachers? Certainly! Do the metrics identify which teachers are the bad ones? Often, no.
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Damn it! When the fuck would ipad2 be available in India? Apple just dumps stuff that it couldnt sell elsewhere 1 year later after US launch. ipad 1 was "launched" in India this year January. The Bastards.
Think about the economy of China since 1974.
I didn't see any notice about how much ram it has... I'm hoping it has as much as the iPhone 4. Does anyone know for sure?
What, the problem of having a girlfriend and writing Linux apps?
I think for maximum accuracy (or at least, as accurate as you can be using this method - I can't wait to try it out), you're probably correct.
That just means it's the same for both devices, the text just wasn't long enough to make it to the second column
HDMI video mirroring is going to be big.

My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it.

Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high school).

There's not much more this feature lets me do on the app front, but man I'm excited to see what people do with it.
They made it clear that it would not be include in official 4.3.
I think it pays attention to the accelerometer.

EDIT: In fact, it does. See thread below.
Sorry, this one is a tad ambiguous. By "humming loudly at the problem," are you talking about addressing problems in your own life, a'la the dominant theme of this thread, or addressing the problems of capitalism as suggested by the author of the article?
Yes, the changes look exciting, but I'm holding out for a better screen too, primarily because of how black-and-white text looks.

Isn't that a problem on the Kindle, which has an even lower resolution? (I've never seen one in the wild here in Europe). I'd love a 200ppi Kindle, but maybe such a high pixel density is unnecessary with e-ink?
I wish I could upvote this by more than just one point. This response is amazing. I know I don't add much to the conversation here, but I really wanted you to know that this was valued by me and I'm sure many others. Thank you.
I don't know what Apple is thinking with these iMovie and GarageBand apps. Everybody knows the iPad is only for consumption. Did they not get the memo?
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There's been a sea change in the "wild abandon" in the past few years: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-federal-government-outlays... (Look carefully at the X and Y axes; that's not a traditional chart and time is not X or Y. But it's one of the more interesting ones I came up with.) Bush started it, Obama made pretty sounding noises about fixing it but has doubled down on it, and shows no signs of stopping even though the "recession" excuse is fading away.
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Apparently, a Schrute Buck is worth 1/100 of a cent and 1,000 Schrute Bucks is 5 minutes extra for lunch.

So, I guess I've successfully earned about 7.5 minutes extra for lunch ;)

Love 'The Office' BTW!
It would also make sense to play 1080p on the device.
thats not it
"That's not the career path of someone who has any direction or ambition"

This is essentially a veiled ad-hominem attack. You don't know the author's motivations or reasons for taking these jobs. You can't a priori assume that he took these jobs because he's lazy and unmotivated.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

RAM not mentioned (so it's probably not increased).
I agree with this; I often carry my iPad naked or in a simple sleeve because every protective case that I've seen or used just makes it slightly-more-just-enough-to-be-annoying difficult to hold and use.
Hasn't this been discussed before? The Person of the Year award is supposed to be given to the most influential person of the year, not the nicest or the most ethical one. Zuckerberg did become a widely recognizable person and you can't say he has not become influential too. Joseph Stalin got the award twice, 'nuff said.

Disclaimer: I'm not comparing, just pointing out that the FSF's reaction is kind of attacking the straw man here.
It truly amazes me that a company can not only design, manufacture and develop software like this in near 100% secrecy, but that they can also have their website completely updated instantly after the keynote with beautiful graphics and videos. How they do it and keep it so under wraps astounds me.
As expected, the 1st gen went on clearance. Starting at $399 for 16GB WiFi only and going up to $729 for 64GB WiFi & 3G. The refurb prices were discounted as well at $349 and $659 respectively.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/clearance...
Also, dip your finger into an inkwell. Then press really lightly on a piece of paper, then press really hard on a piece of paper. Note the difference.

No accelerometer needed -- flesh is fleshy and distorts under pressure.
Interest on the debt, currently it's about 200 Billion (10% of tax receipts). In 2020, it will be 800 Billion (40% of the federal budget), if you add in medicare and SS then boom you're over 100%. Exponential growth while slow at the start, can relatively quickly become quite large.

http://investmentwatchblog.com/interest-expense-on-the-us-de...
Same here. iPad 1 can't load more than two tabs for me without swapping one out.
For me the news of the day was that Steve is still over here.
Is there a place we can learn more about the Nitro engine for Safari? For example, will it support webGL?
This is why I love Apple. They heavily advertise the iPad during the holiday season, I foolishly purchase one for my parents, and they release a new model three months later.

Are they planning to release a new iPad every year or just with every new iOS update?
It's not crazy -- having the latest and greatest feels good, and $500 or whatever it costs is not much money for a once-a-year pleasure outlay. Consider what a car costs, and consider that some people buy a new one every 5 years. Now that's crazy.
I think we'll have to wait for iFixit to break one down.
Simple. They...

1. Take steps that make it easier to identify leakers (like embedding secret numbers into promotional photos so they can tell who leaked them if they get published)

and 2. They pursue anyone who dares leak information with the ferocity of a rabid dog.

No real mystery here.
The metaphysical limitations of neuroscience.
To the extent that people are talking about a shutdown, it has been with the idea that a resolution will be passed to pay our bond and entitlement obligations while everything else is shut down.

It should be pointed out that we have enough income to cover those things in the absence of other discretionary spending, so that does not require more debt.

A government shutdown will not be accompanied by the financial fireworks that people are anticipating. Personally I'm all for this style of shutdown. The savings are immense and quick and I daresay a lot of people will be quite shocked to learn just how little we need all those government services. I'm not saying we don't need them at all, just that we need them far less that people think. We managed to live without them for quite a while, after all.
You sell the old one used.

Apple kit holds its value very well, as you would expect from a product that is selling almost as fast as it can be made. Gazelle.com is currently offering me 60% of the retail price of my old iPad. Must... resist...
No mention of memory? Is it still 256MB, or did they bump it up to the 512MB in iPhone 4? Or is it finally 1GB?...
After the iPod Nano watch, I smell the next obvious Apple accessory: the iPad Keytar.
How does that account for finger size though? Children might have a hard press of the same area as my light press. Hm, could be they look at the rate of change in the growth of the tap event...but this wouldn't provide information about mass. I think it's a no go.

We need a force here. They know how heavy the iPad is. They have an acceleration. There's a force.
I completely agree. Their website roll out team kicks ass! They should publish how they manage the 'browser caching' issue, whenever I go to Apple.com after/during keynote, I get the latest page without doing hard refresh.
A good capacitive screen can determine the diameter of the touchpoint as well as the center. It's translating finger squish into pressure. It might also be looking at rate of change of the diameter over time to figure velocity.
Not really related to iPad 2, but Apple just dropped the original iPad price everywhere except U.S store.
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Latest rumor was 512MB: http://ipadgeartalk.com/ipad/ipad-2-have-fastest-processor-a...

Tech Specs don't show SOC memory. Guess we'll have to wait till March 11th or later for iFixit to do a teardown.
"maybe such a high pixel density is unnecessary with e-ink?"

That's right. E-ink pixels are not square, don't have gaps, and don't use three colour pixels to create white. A higher pixel density with e-ink would be nice, but isn't as necessary as it is with LCD.

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722
In my experience, the Kindle resolution is sufficient to be like printed text. My guess is that because it's black and white only, you don't need to worry about the sort of sub-pixel font rendering that LCD's do.
The current state has been thus for all of about a decade, maybe two if you want to get technical about it. It remains to be seen whether it sticks around for the long term. It is also debatable whether this really represents an improvement, much less a continual one. With the increasing availability of the basics to launch a web application, the expected value of doing so has declined correspondingly.

Even if we take it as given that relatively wealthy American programmers have experienced continual improvement in their lot over the past couple of decades, that doesn't mean that we will continue to do so - or that everyone else has experience anything remotely similar. I would argue that we - developers - have experienced more upward mobility than most careers in the last couple of decades, and it is precisely because of this that we are relatively privileged.

In short, our experience doesn't necessarily generalize to society at large.
I was thinking that too, but they said they use an accelerometer. http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=22452&Pag...
After all AJAX will not bring content from nowhere, they can still count the feed's requests.
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That's a tricky situation, and I hope it never happens. Ultimately, it's a bit of a breach of your privacy, isn't it? They aren't your friends, really.

I'd say that I don't have one. (This would mean giving them a different email than the one I've got my Facebook account set-up with.)

If I'm forced to provide one, I'd make a new one and only add them as a friend.

(However if you do accept them as a friend on your real account, it'd be simple to set the privacy options to give them a customized view of your profile.)
Informative. Nice article, obvious but you put in a simple and clean light to understand the real importance of "what" is the value of a Fan and Follower.
Wow, Steve seems to have done a turnaround... does anyone remember when he said 7" was way too small?
http://www.tipb.com/2010/10/18/steve-jobs-7inch-tablets-terr...
5 Major Trends to Watch Right Now, Besides the iPad
How many school projects have HDMI inputs?

(Edit: Didn't realize the original did VGA -- I don't see how HDMI is such a big deal for presentations then)
the wheel was such a clever interface choice

... first seen on the ill-fated Modo four years earlier.

http://www.ideo.com/work/modo/
Sum in J is +/ not, $&$%^%$%M. Is +/ really too hard to comprehend? I agree with you that APL is historically important, but J is Ken Iverson's last and greatest gift to the programming community. He used the 26 years between the release of APL and J to address many of the shortcomings of APL. Take a look at http://bit.ly/hMmGWV for some background.
Does Apple normally include how much RAM iOS devices have on their site? It doesn't seem to be:

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Maybe the increased the memory, maybe not. But that doesn't seem to be a good indicator.
Cache-Control:max-age=221

That would do it.
Clocks, within a clock.
If it's evenly distributed. The benefits of capitalism are very clearly not evenly distributed.
3. They do not employ very large teams, and those small teams are very dedicated.

Apparently they didn't just read Brooks and Peopleware, they also seem to act upon them.
While I don't disagree with your observations, I think it would be remiss to exclude the fact that many Apple employees are incredibly loyal and believe in the company.
I would say that’s both about equally crazy. Cars and TVs should be good for a decade.
I assume the iPad 2 hasn't lost the original's capability of outputting VGA.

Edit: the reason it's a big deal is that the original iPad had to have the app specifically coded to deal with the external screen/projector (and few are). The new version just lets you mirror the content, whatever app you're in. It'd be nice if the new iOS retroactively made this possible on the original (at least at same resolution?) but I kind of doubt it. We'll see next week.
Because it is a very small market i would price it at about $1,000 for a song. So it would be a niche product, but also a luxury one.