skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that prior to it even being a question of Keynesian economics and fixing a recession we were driving down the dollar to make US exports more "competitve" with the rest of the world.
So... a dual core processor, two cameras, and... that's it? I was honestly expecting a LOT more considering how much competition they're getting this year. The new cover is neat, and it seems like they did a great job with the Movie and Garage Band apps, but the new iPad 2 is pretty underwhelming. Same old low resolution, no USB ports, and no desperately needed UI changes (I'm guessing iOS 5 wasn't ready yet and you'll have to wait for the new iPhone announcement).

The only good thing still going for it is the price, and if the past few years of the smartphone market has taught us anything, we'll soon see a flood of a variety of cheap tablets on all the service providers using Android. Can the iPad 2 compete with that? We'll see.
Newrelic is exceedingly useful. I can see Union Station being equally useful, honestly.
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The kindle screen doesn't need a higher resolution - the way the e-ink is displayed it makes reading a breeze.
Show HN: Idiot/Shithead cardgame in html. 2 player games require FB login
I think you've missed a core point of the comparison:
Chevy Malibu's weren't built in isolation, either. They were built from parts, in factories built by people who specialized in building factories (we call it, in very generic terms, the construction industry). They were serviced by gas stations and mechanics. There is an entire industry focused on producing rubber, primarily for automobile tires. There's another industry which builds tires, and another that refines oil, one that focuses on fixing scratches, another on cleaning the devices.

The argument that the information world is the first to stack industries on other industries is fallacious, and misses the point entirely: Information doesn't take labor for every instance of product.
Nokia's strategic announcements do spell doom for the Nokia Symbian app ecosystem, so if customers were buying Nokia phones for the Symbian apps, continued sales would indeed be based upon a kind of deception.

However, in reality, customers don't buy Nokia phones for the Symbian apps. So the spokesperson is correct that it shouldn't affect sales much.
False analogy. You can choose not to go to a restaurant if you don't want to pay the markup. You cannot choose not to work if you enjoy not starving.
But even this one seems to be disproven by example. Some of the best programmers I know are exceptionally slovenly in their written language. I strongly suspect that this list of "uncomfortable truths" is intended to illustrate that a competent programmer looks, for all intents and purposes, like ewd himself.
Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?
How are you judging the urban teacher against the suburban one?

From my first post: For teacher..., they can use Value Added Modeling.

Come up with a statistical predictor of performance, based on observable quantities such as income, ESL, race, free lunch, and previous year's performance.

Teacher alpha = actual performance - predicted performance.

All the factors you described are either highly correlated with easily available quantities (low income), or they are directly measurable. Thus, the predictor performance is likely to include them.

I'd be curious to see if you could even hypothesize a systematic error (as opposed to sampling error) with a large effect that is not highly correlated with with easily observable base quantities (income, demographics, prior performance).
Poorly thought out comment... what if recruiters follow the ever-growing trend of asking for the login for privacy-set FB accounts?

Oh - then they'll see all of those pictures etc.

What are you, as the job seeker going to do... say "no you can't have my login?" That would take some big juevos, my friend.
+1. Just saying that 'either I'm ahead or I'm behind' is a false dichotomy.
Ask HN: Review my updated website design
About 6 weeks ago, I launched my site and software: Kwolla - http://kwolla.com.

The feedback I received from HN was great. I quickly redesigned the site (or rather, bought a template and used that). That got me my first month of solid revenue - http://blog.leftnode.com/entry/first-month-kwolla-sales-report

I used that to pay a friend of mine to redo the design. I'd love some thoughts on the new design and how to improve it.

The old layout can be seen here: http://blog.leftnode.com/entry/launching-the-new-kwolla.com

And the new layout can be seen here:
http://kwolla.com

Thanks once again.
The correct content-type (MIME type) is indeed "application/json" (edit: downcased JSON, not sure why I made that typo). http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627

Additionally, if no encoding is specified, UTF-8 should be assumed when dealing with JSON.
Anyone notice at the end of the video on Apple's site the disclaimer about the colors potentially wearing off on the leather versions? Still love the concept and I'd just go with a poly one anyway. Definitely agree with the ergonomics aspect as well. I think the Smart Cover is pretty brilliant in its simplicity.
This is indeed one of the more viable options that we've been thinking about.
Some links:

http://blog.leftnode.com/entry/first-month-kwolla-sales-repo...

http://blog.leftnode.com/entry/launching-the-new-kwolla.com

http://kwolla.com
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You can also bootstrap using Puppet. Basically you generate a template that you can use to upload to CF and it will just run the bootstrap script from the UserData section when the instance is started. See the wiki here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Bootstra...
I suspect that when iOS 5 is announced there will be more to say about the iPad 2's abilities. We'll see I guess.
On their tech specs page they have no mention of it: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

I am guessing 512MB otherwise it would have been mentioned if it was 1GB. Kinda bummed by that, 1GB would have been nice.
True but every company has mostly loyal employees (imho). The trick is keeping the dishonest ones in-line and the best way to do that is through fear. Apple makes it clear they'll go nuclear on anyone who leaks information and the dishonest ones realize it probably isn't worth the risk.
"It is possible to build a pattern that acts like a finite state machine connected to two counters. This has the same computational power as a universal Turing machine, so the Game of Life is theoretically as powerful as any computer with unlimited memory and no time constraints: it is Turing complete."

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

Also see, "a Turing Machine implemented in Conway's Game of Life":

http://rendell-attic.org/gol/tm.htm
Quite a group of remarks though for something "not remarkable".
don't knkow if it's firefox inserting them, but i do see closing tags, apart from <p> elements, but that's allowed.
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The right thing to do
I'm still not sure how to interpret your original post. Are you claiming that the source of the achievement gap is somehow inherent in "race"? Or are you simply pointing out the correlation to race, without making claims to its source (allowing for the actual source to be something else like income level)?
They never say in the specs. We'll have to wait for someone to corner an Apple rep at the hands-on or iFixIt to tear one down.
AFAIK you can't (at least not yet...) search for a user's photos, and they aren't indexed in any search engine. You have to click on the photos link on a user's profile to see the photos they're tagged in. (So you're pretty safe.)

However, if they can view the photos of someone who has uploaded one of you or tagged you in one, they'll be able to find you in them eventually (by browsing through them, or if you're feeling really paranoid, they could automate the process and scrape through all of a user's photos' web pages to find your name tagged), but it'd be a lot of work.
Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.
Old Oatmeal cartoon capturing how I feel right now:http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
It's frustrating to me that apple keeps making their devices thinner.

Why not maintain the same size and use the extra room for a larger battery, improved performance, or cooling?
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Why are people so interested in white versions of the iPhone/iPad? Is it merely a matter of preference or is there some kind of significant difference? (I ask this earnestly, and not to troll.)
They needed to give you reasons to buy the iPad 3 of course.
The iPad 2 retains the 9.7" screen size and dimensions of the original iPad:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Really? You believe that people are that talented to keep their FB privacy private? The "norm" of FB users do not take the time to set their privacy correctly...

The article is NOT about how good you keep your life private...its about PERCEPTION. These HR folks are not Rocket Scientists...they are humans that use FB also. Again...Really with this comment?
Get an alternative browser, such as Atomic Browser or iCab mobile
Why did you decide on 1500 points as a goal?
Ipads are a lot easier to steal/damage than desktops.
The same thing happens with a real piano though: differing fingers impart different forces with the same perceived effort, yet we still manage.
Did you really expect Apple to add USB ports to the iPad? Also, new iOS wasn't part of this announcement.

All in all it's a pretty solid hardware refresh (the thinner case being the highlight.) The screen probably will be in v3, since the cost is probably still too high.
All our projectors at work have DVI input so a simple HDMI to DVI adapter would make it work.

But more and more lately I see big LCD TVs on meeting room walls instead of projectors. Those almost always have HDMI inputs.
USB would add a huge power drain to the ipad. plus I'm not sure if most people would need it. What's wrong with bluetooth add-ons?

Also, where are these cheap tablets running honeycomb? The only one I've seen available so far is the Xoom and that's $800 for their starter model.
Yeah I tested downforeveryoneorjustme. It really makes me wonder about relying on 3rd party services with something fundamental on my sites.
Maybe if I don't directly look at it I won't want one.
Did I misunderstand something? The size specs (minus the thickness) seem to be identical...

9.7 inches diagonal. He is not referring to the width...
I'm making a guess that FSF (and EFF) would probably have preferred the most influential person to win, namely Julian Assange.
Rails 3.0.5 broke my routes and kicked my dog
This is a straw man attack. Lack of direction, and ambition doesn't mean lazy or unmotivated. His job choices show lack of direction, with the random job walk he has done so far he certainly isn't moving in one direction. Same with ambition there doesn't seem to be any greatness seeking in his job selection.
There's at least one very similar competitor in the business space: Premiere Choice Award gift certificates sold by Hallmark Business Connections at http://www.premierechoiceaward.com. Employers purchase gift certificates, which can then be redeemed for an equivalent value with various merchants, a PDF listing of which appears at http://www.hallmarkbusinessconnections.com/merchant-list

Hallmark also sells the certificates paired with greeting cards under the brands Valued Expressions and Memorable Expressions.

Unfortunately, the user experience for the certificates is pretty horrific. The site has a turn-of-the-century design, and you have to manually enter a 30-digit code for each card. I was especially pleased to discover this when I received a $250 award in the form of 10 individual cards. 300 digits later, I was able to convert that value into its most fungible form: Amazon credit.

I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing Cardpool steal some of their marketshare.
They only mention charging through the 30-pin port on the HDMI dongle. I wonder if any other 30-pin accessories will work when the HDMI mirroring dongle is attached?
This article is a joke, it's something I would expect to find on some tech/news gossip website. Is this what FSF has become?

> so many sites — including TIME — use Facebook's user-tracking "Like" button, Zuckerberg is able to collect information about people who aren't even users of his site. These are precedents which hurt our ability to freely connect with each other. He has created a network that is first and foremost a gold mine for government surveillance and advertisers.

I would think just about any popular web site would be a gold mine for such information. It has nothing to do with Facebook. Doesn't this sentence hold true if we replace Facebook with Google? This seems like a tinfoil/scare everyone into believing Facebook is evil and out to get you.

> and then maybe relays it to the intended destination, if it suits him. In some cases he does not — witness the recent reports of Facebook's messaging service blocking messages based on the words and links in them, because those links point to services which Facebook would prefer we not discuss.

Comeon, examples/proof please. Is Facebook blocking URLs to competition or child porn sites? There is a pretty big difference here.

I would think that the FSF should be on Facebook, trying to spread their message, gaining support, and discovering new users. They have an interesting problem, a lot of support, and some very big challenges ahead of them... and yet they spend time publishing articles like this and making fancy dislike buttons. FSF you should be ashamed.
I charge the battery once a week or so.
How do you plan to improve performances of an iPad increasing size?
It doesn't need cooling.
I do think that's the general direction things should go in..

But that statistical predictor of performance will always be horribly flawed. Applying a rigid set of a dozen statistics to human beings always misses the mark in a ton of cases. The question is whether it's better than the current system -- personally I'd want to see several iterations experimented with before I'd feel confident at all that it wasn't making things worse. "First, do no harm" and all that.

One huge problem a lot of good urban teachers have with testing is that the tests as written really don't "speak to" poor urban and minority students. The teachers complain that they spend more time teaching the students how to take the test and less time teaching them the material in a way that's relevant to their lives. I haven't ever taught, so I'm just repeating this, but I can see where they're coming from.
Google’s Content Farm updates : or leaking patches
The old entry model is down to 380€ from 500€ in the German Store.
SQL Injection against Speed Limit Camera on License Plate
> iOS is not different to Android with regard to malware.

Then why is malware being identified on Android but not iOS?
Our only TV is a 32" CRT that I got for $500 in early 2001 as a college sophomore. I felt guilty about that for a few years afterwards, but at this point I can safely say it was a good purchase.
Ask HN: Apple, Intersection of liberal arts and technology?
Jobs recently said Apple operates at the intersection of liberal arts and technology. Perhaps they could claim to be a little more humanistic than their competetors, this is still a huge reach. To what extent do you think the claim is valid?

Jobs is quoted saying from his iPad 2 launch that:

"It's in Apple's DNA that technology is not enough. It's tech married with the liberal arts and the humanities. Nowhere is that more true than in the post-PC products. Our competitors are looking at this like it's the next PC market. That is not the right approach to this. These are pos-PC devices that need to be easier to use than a PC, more intuitive."

source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-event/
1,500 is just the tipping point of (hopefully) many karma goals. At first I set it for 1,000 in 30 days, but I didn't reach it, so it was modified it to 1,500 in 45 days.

My next goal is set at 4,500 in 90 days.
If the HR person DOESN'T like the Wildcats...you are NOT getting the job.

Seriously...think outside your little world. HR folks are people who get to be a God for a moment and choose who they want their boss to interview.

HR practices to schedule an interview was based on how many "key words" appeared in your resume....count the words and if there are enough move them to the interview.

Seriously...HR folks may be the receptionist at the front desk, the mail boy who got the resume, an intern who wants the job someone is applying for....HR folks are PEOPLE...think about this folks!
Robert Scoble: "I've been watching Jobs for the entire keynote. Even when he's back stage. He's been standing the entire time, looks healthier than me."

http://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/43021083867222017
Depends on how much $ you're making from it and what sort of growth you think you can achieve.

I checked out the app and it looks very nice. I will be buying soon.
The human cost of content-farm cleanup
If you look at the "TV and Video" section, it explicitly says it supports 1080p video out. But, if you look at the "formats supported" sub-section, it only supports 720p video.
Is that Salo?
Maybe the HR person doesn't like your type of pet....hmmmm...IT HAPPENS!
I was kind of betting the farm on this with some of my app design decisions. This is going to be huge for my startup.
To run new apps that won't work on the lesser hardware?
Agree.
It should have been clear when the gave the award to people like Bush and Bernake.
It hasn't. But the key here is support for mirroring, which wasn't built-in even when using the VGA Adapter.
Doubtful. We didn't even have the idea of the platform when we came up with Justin.tv. Our pitch was more along the lines of "Here's something we're passionate about that is cool" -- PG believes in funding people and believed in funding us. We figured the rest out as we went along.
Yup sorry, from the iPad 2 site: "Just plug in the Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (sold separately) and your HDTV or projector becomes a bigger version of your iPad."

I didn't see anything non-HDMI mentioned in the liveblog so I wasn't sure if Apple made it work retroactively. Glad that they did!
This is a VERY clever way to get people like me interested in finding out what Quplo does given that I have no idea what Quplo is.
Its a very HOT topic found in many areas right now. Those who listen will have a leg up from those who still say "FMJ" on the site they have so many colleagues "friended".
Hi, I signed up for your site. It is nice but my idea about such sites are little different. What I usually see are sites that let you post an idea and get feedback from other members. For example -

http://www.halfbakery.com
http://www.globalideasbank.org
http://www.whynot.net/
http://www.creativitypool.com/
http://ideaaday.org/

Your site does the same but also allows landing pages and beta signups.

Here are some of the features I want in an idea sharing site -

1. Idea submission (It exists)

2. Feedback (It exists)

3. Ratings - up/down votes(It exists)

4. Brainstorming - A chat room/FB wall/discussion board/google wave/Whiteboard like features where members can easily do brainstorming with other interested members.

5. Document Repository(Wiki Style) - For things like Feature List, Proposed UX/UI Design pics, business plan, etc.

6. List of Interested Developers,Designers,etc. (Followers)

7. List of implementation - Links of actual implementation of idea.

and many such things...the goal should be to allow users to share, validate, improve, document ideas and keep track of interested developers, designers, etc and implementations.

It should be in a manner that if someone likes the idea and wants to implement it he can quickly access all the available information to do it.
It's clear to me you don't understand the market then. Being the thinnest is a clear differentiator. Having aesthetic style means a LOT to a lot of people (ie, customers).

Furthermore, Apple did increase the processor size, memory, and probably battery (considering it has same 10hr life) and also decreased the total volume of the enclosure.

Finally, if you've ever used an iPad at length you'd realize it doesn't need cooling 99.9% of the time. It just doesn't get warm... this is a huge differentiator from the netbooks it's often compared to.
> Asking for your login details.

Do some recruitment agencies actually do that?! They expect you to hand over your password? I'm speechless!

I would have a hard time saying "no", but ultimately, giving someone your login details is like giving them the keys to your house: a lot of people use the same login for many (if not all) websites, including their email.
Show HN: loqize.me - Review what we just built. Would you use it?
If you read the general guideline about using hacker news, it says that if you want to ask a question about YC you have to email them and not post here.

Besides it is not very polite to post an IP, either it is from YC or not.
Facebook appears to have had a tremendous effect on countries like Tunisia and Egypt. The alternatives that FSF lists may not have been as effective because of the technical difficulty for a large number of people to set up such a service.
> Did you really expect Apple to add USB ports to the iPad?

Doesn't seem unreasonable coming from the company that claims to have popularized USB:

http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
Ubuntu will now be based off of Arch instead of Debian in order to accomodate rolling releases.

kidding :)
IPad 2: The view from Brooklyn
> However, the main reason I'd upgrade my iPad would be for better resolution.

There was never going to be a resolution upgrade this year. It's simply not feasible to push 2048x1536 on 9.7" screens right now. Next year maybe, but this year nope.
Facebook Credits: Great for Social Games Software Developers but Not a Currency
Of course, even Inception was based on earlier works.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invent...
Aside from the fact that our global growth rate has been dropping for the last twenty years, I'd like to point out that actually feeding the population isn't a problem. Feeding it beef may well be, but the primary issues with world starvation is that the market is held above their heads by unnatural means (fallow field subsidies in the US, solar subsidies in Europe, and lack of agricultural subsidy in Africa, just for example). Big agrabusiness, BTW, exists only because it is more cost-efficient than small farms, and as such could better weather rising energy prices. Energy prices will not ever be high enough to crush big agrabusiness; A large agrabusiness would build private nuclear plants first.

Beyond that point, Localized fuel is a funtion of rising fuel prices. Energy exists in the world, in the form of deep sea oil, shale oil, natural gas, and coal on a scale that makes a mockery of any renewable movement.

Its about cost-effectiveness of extraction, which, as energy prices rise, will make so many sources of energy available to us long before it makes renewables an efficient plan.
Motorize the switch ;-)
Have you ever used Gazelle before? $375 is really good for a 16gb wifi iPad.

EDIT: Planning on selling mine, so wondering if anyone has used the service before?
Does anyone have a coloured leather case for an existing device here?

Is this something to be expected when working with dyed leather? Are Apple just being cautious by preempting 'leather-gate' or something similar wherever they can with this product launch?
Apple A5 Processor: It all began in 2006
Perhaps progress is overrated, when 'smart covers' are the most exciting feature.