skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, that's not my observation. The iPad is certainly popular with iPhone owners, but it seems to be popular with non-iPhone owners as well.

Edit: I dug up some actual data: only 27% of iPad owners own an iPhone, while 32% own a blackberry or android phone (and a significant fraction do not own a smartphone at all).

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/19/a-look-at-ipad-users-...
Sure, if you plan on staying small and never growing, this is fine. But you can't build your site for growth staring at the edge of an $4-8/CPM marginal cost (in addition to all your other overhead!).

$4-8/CPM is far more than most ad networks pay. Perhaps Google is deliberately trying to get rid of most major GMaps users. If they follow through on this, they will be successful.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is what I think.

I don't care about the 'glory' of a startup, glory is something you tell stupid 18 year old kids so they feel good about going to die for 60 year old kids.

If you can make money with out risk you're an idiot to go and find a business with lots of risk controlled by someone else.

Don't dig for gold, sell shovels!

Did you know that the people who sell plastic wrap for hard drives have a higher profit margin than those who make hard drives? Think about the ramifications of that for a second.

Laugh inside when you get made fun of for not having the stomach to risk digging for gold. Enjoy your life find your esteem from yourself and not from the opinions of the masses, it's you who has to live your life, not the others commenting on it. If raising VC makes you happy, then raise VC. If a lifestyle biz makes you happy run a lifestyle biz. If being a programmer in a cubefarm at a megacorp makes you happy, do that!
i take it that you are a monarchist then?
Yes, you're missing something. I run a small iOS contracting shop that does continuous integration. When the contracting market is good, we never have enough build servers, which can only be Macs. Virtualization only gets us so far.

There IS NO aws / EC2 service for macs. I can't just spin up some instances to handle the load and spin down after the engineers go home. The options are literally run to the Apple store and blow a few grand on a couple of boxes, which are hopefully in stock, which we then upkeep indefinitely in a physical closet. To handle a big spike, we really need like 10, but that's a big cash outlay for machines that will be idle in 6 weeks.

I am a developer, and hunting and installing Mac Minis, dealing with RMAs and AppleCare, etc., is not being productive for me. We're small enough that getting a network guy to handle that (assuming you can even find Apple network guys) is not economical. This looks like an easy solution.
I'm unsure about this. So far it hasn't. And there has been plenty of "plentiful shit" at a cheap price point.

The difference to the phone market is that the tablet market is (largely) un-subsidised and not coupled to a contract. It'll be interesting to see how the Amazon Fire will fare. It is subsidised, unlike the iPad, and probably very polished, has a successful ecosystem and will likely be a very good gadget. Only the future will tell..
Your password policy (and error reporting) for registering is so stupid I don't want to work with you guys anymore, ok? Don't get in touch.
Do you honestly believe that RMS is on anything like the level of Fred Phelps, or are you just taking liberties with the truth for the sake of bombast?
15 year-old needs your advice
TL;DR

I'm a 15 year-old geek and developer from Belarus (think of it as of Russia). I care about perfect code and perfectness at all.

Let me tell something about me. I started coding when I was, I remember, 9. My first language was PHP (now I hate it though).

Some time later I started learning Python, in the hope to know more, and be more educated. That time I already knew I gonna be a developer. No other way. I kept myself being educated by new and new things about python, and actually about the web and computers. I learned many things, like linux system administration, the power of command line, etc. Most of all, I think I started seeing the life a brand new way.

Then, when I was in a search for something even better than Python (which, honestly speaking, amazed me a lot), I met Ruby. Well, I abandoned python and digger deeper in Ruby. I explored some part of big ruby world. I realized that Ruby is exactly what I want and what my perfect-aware nature need.

I learned Rails, then I learned MongoDB, and so. Pretty neat. Everything seemed cool, but I realize now I think I know many thing, I feel unwillingness to learn something new. I became too lazy and procrastinated, that's true.

But from time to time I feel new energy to learn something new, to make the world better. I do some research on what to build or what open source project to join but I end up with absolutely nothing.

As I told before, I gonna work at some IT company when I reach 18. Well can I ask you to give me some tips?

I doubt what open source project to join. HN suggested me before to help one of my favorite project to become better. I have many favorite projects. Some of them are complex and some of them are easy. While going to projects' pages at github I looked up Issues in a hope to see some feature requests. But most of issues was bug reports or pull requests. I didn't want to work on bugs, I wanted more to add new features. And again I ended up with nothing. Can you give me links to some interesting Ruby open source projects? Or suggest me ideas on what to build?

Another question is how can I minimize distraction and procrastination, get rid of laziness, become more productive and keep myself interested in learning new things and in self-improvement? Because I feel I have much power, but I do nothing with it. I waste it and my time.

Also I have some thoughts on my future. I have several options. First of them is to reach 18, move to San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne, <any other city name> and work for an IT company. I have several companies in my mind, but most of all I feel desire to work at Github. Another option is to start studying at the university, Berkeley, Stanford, <any other university name> first, and then work for a company. Personally I think education now means nothing for a developer. But I'm wondering if studying is really worthy and can give me some excellent knowledge in Higher Math, AI, etc. So which option should I choose, what's your opinion?

Maybe I also should get rid of my perfectionism?

Thanks in advance.
>it probably has something to do with the fact that so many of them were picked on growing up.

and here we're talking about how perpetrating of stereotypes is a bad thing

edit: found a word for it in English - hypocrisy.
Yes if they think your App has errors and is not self explaining or working properly it is ok to reject your App.

Is it ok that you can only develop for the Playstation if you are a game development studio? Yes I think so too.
Uploaders of videos can enable/disable the inStream ads. They are not required by Google. http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=1...
NYT: Apple expected to release Siri-powered television by 2013
IMO, the scans are way too low res.

Automatic detection of upside down pieces, etc is considerably more difficult with this low resolution.
I can think of a few good reasons, but none of that includes consuming data that I ostensibly own.
They can't, it goes against the company core philosophy.

Anybody can program for the iPod, and anybody can program for the DS(with the homebrew libs), but you can't officially do so for the DS without paying huge amounts of money and "proving" that you are a professional(You can't program in your house), and giving a big share of the profits to Nintendo.

So developers just go away and the only games you have are those made by Nintendo itself: Zelda, Mario and the like...the same games over and over again.
If Alice wants to, she can always copy the file out of the team's dropbox folder and email it to Bob.
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Well, activated Picasa Web Albums, Google Chat and Google+ and it doesn't work. Maybe in a few days?
No. He thinks they don't do enough to protect the users' freedom, but he still considers them Free Software and acceptable. He has also advocated for them in some cases, particularly for the Ogg Vorbis library.
LAMP-stack? Forget it It’s a LAMPGMVNMCSTRAH-stack now
Well, SJ was happy to put up a "down with the man!" front so long as he wasn't the man himself.

However, it seems from the Isaacson bio that behind the scenes, he wanted control of the end-user experience on his machines from the start. He wanted the Apple II to ship with two reserved expansion slots --- one for a modem, the other for a printer --- so that third-party hardware couldn't screw up the user experience. It was Woz who insisted on eight general-purpose expansion slots.

["Steve Jobs", p. 74]
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> If I share "Folder A" with Alice, then she can re-share it with Bob without my permission.

Email works the same way. I think transitive sharing what people expect. The alternative is:

"You can see and edit files in this folder, but if you want to share it with someone else, you must duplicate it and then share the copy."
Touchscreen happened in iOS first.

What? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus is just one counterexample of many.
You can't install software on your own phone without joining the iOS developer program, which costs $99/year.

http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/deploying-iphone-apps-...
In an older talk at hp Sussman's view is we are at the alchemy stage of understanding computer science. Hence why programmers are often compared to wizards. I guess not much has changed in 20 years.
Larry Ellison Made Steve Jobs Fall Out Of His Seat Laughing
> You pay a hefty price, that no one in reality pays

What is this "hefty price"? Is it price without contract? Because we don't sell mobile phone with contract in my country and people still get iPhone.
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If you are citing John Carmacks engine releases as a way to make money, then you must forget that both, his assets have never been free, and the engine has never been released as GPL while he has been making money off of the product.

He is releasing historical code as GPL, which is a far cry from running a business on a truley "free" product.
Steve Jobs tribute, made from disassembled MacBook Pro
This blog post is just silly, and in my own opinion nothing more than failed linkbait. In no way, shape, or form is this hypocritical. By borrowing a phone, RMS is not making the person he is borrowing it from more trackable. They already made up their minds to own a phone, thus being trackable. Neither is he making it easier to listen in on them (he actually is making it harder). Finally in no way, shape, or form is he making himself more trackable by doing this.

The only way a could consider this hypocritical is if he asked to borrow a phone from somebody who at all times turned their phone of, and only briefly turned it on to make calls. But I'm rather sure that if he asked to borrow a phone from somebody, and their reply was, "sorry, I would rather not turn it on because I don't want to be tracked", he would respect that.
Not every company has to be huge or insanely profitable.
Personally I never saw that problem in all the companies I worked, but I can see how making yourself more prominent in tech can lead to harassment,

Would this not be the same in any industry or even worse?

We are probably the most vocal community and thus generating more conversations about it, but I don't see a lot of women in the construction fields, and I can picture them having a pretty bad experience there. What about any industry where the boss is a jerk that want to get laid?

I'm kind of joining some of you guys in wondering what the movements about getting more women involved in tech is about, I don't really think it needs more or less,

Like probably no one would start a movement to get more guys in a predominant women profession? frankly who cares?
If you're close to any of them, it may be interesting to ask them. A lot of women in technology (and women in general, and also people in general) choose to not talk much about bad experiences, for many reasons, so there is an underreporting effect - and a lot of harassment also isn't in obvious forms witnessed by other people. Some women are fortunate to not have had a lot of problems, of course - but if you ask a few, especially ones who speak or write publicly about their work, you'll probably hear some painful stories.
Many of us with embarrassing photos from the 90s have already had them all transferred to CD (at the print shop, at the time they were developed.)

In fact I have more photos on CD than I have in print, because being a geek I have been more careful to preserve my digital media than anything printed.
>Very common problem: interviewers asking questions about who was going to take care of the kids.

how the interviewer would know about the kids to start with? Did he ask about it? That question is already illegal. Or was the fact of having kids brought up by the candidate? Then the candidate got what s/he was asking for.

>Actually happened: an interviewer displayed a picture of himself not wearing pants. That interview was in Chicago; I was in Michigan at the time, thankfully.

was he doing it only to female candidates? Do we know it for sure? Or may be we just promoting and reinforcing the stereotype that women are intentionally targeted?
The EU Data Rentention Directive should apply. From Wikipedia

"According to the directive, member states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months stipulating a maximum time period. Under the directive the police and security agencies will be able to request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. A request to access the information will be possible only with a court order."

However, this is not yet a law in Sweden, and it was not implemented in time. I believe Sweden pays a fine for this and but the political opposition has suspended it until 2012. It should be law by the time the data center is operational.
"Trusted and Dependable" and "Bank grade AES-256 bit encryption"

Does that mean client-side encryption yet? Businesses are expected to use this without it?

Any comments from Dropbox staff here?
We're still in the toddler stage of handset OSes. There are a lot of new features that are pretty important still coming through the pipe.
> Not sure how much the devs are paid if any

Well enough that they can hire a few hundred full-time people, apparently, yes? Including some people who should clearly have no shortage of other job offers (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward ).

> Last I heard, the IRS was investigating them

The IRS is doing an audit (which is not the same thing as an investigation, by the way).

The IRS is also auditing, right this second, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In fact, last I checked, for companies like Apple or Microsoft they had full-time auditors assigned to them on an ongoing basis.

As far as the memory leaks thing... That's a developer-driven project, like many other things at Mozilla. Most developers there are not paid to do a specific task; they're paid to do the right thing. Just like Google doesn't hire you for a particular project, by the way.
I did say that people should suck it up. I was referring to ignoring the treatment (online) as a better form of dealing with it than running away. But at the same time that confronting the attackers would be a more proactive effort. Not to stop harping on it. I specifically said women should mobilize and work proactively to prevent sexism in the industry, which is far from 'stop harping on it'. But thanks for cherry picking two things I said, displaying them out of context and inserting your own agenda.
And look at their margins.
Really? I spend my life at the CLI and wouldn't have it any other way :)
Forgive my ignorance, but is there an IT community in Belarus?

IMHO, I would go for the Computer Science degree. I didn't, and as a result had to really work to get a foundation in CS theory. I'm still working.

Good luck to you. At least you know what direction you want to go. At 15 I was still trying to decide between computer science, biology, and art! :)
I think the failure of ipad killers can be attributed to them "having NO humanities and liberal arts in their DNA." as Jobs once said about Microsoft and Google. "They just didn't get it. Even when they saw the it they couldn't even copy it well." I think for that reason no ipad-wannabe-killers (present or future) will come close to displacing the ipad unless they manage to trump it in design/UX/UI. Currently, their only strategy seems to be waging a price war in hopes of covering their cost price(at the very least) and gaining some market share (at best).
I was happy that Gerald Sussman shares my fear of floating numbers :)

(because I'm not alone, not because he's afraid)

[edit] clarification
The best way to learn anything in Vim is by accident
There is - and probably never will be - a scientific answer to this particular question, as establishing such an answer would involve taking a few thousand kids and raising them in isolation.

The offending statement is thus nothing more than unfounded gender-based stereotyping, which I consider sexist.

Personally, I suspect that social norms play a more important role here than genetics, so it's as ridiculous as the claim that because few people of Amish heritage hold tech jobs, people of Amish heritage are genetically less likely to want to do tech.
I completely agree with point 2. It took me a while to figure out this was a comparison.
The instruction architecture is irrelevant to the issue of address space.

The Cortex A15 can already address up to 1TB of memory.
The customer base seems to be people who do not own a mac , but would like to spend some time on one. this is truly a fleeting and shrinking population. Think about this...on a macro scale, if mac's marketshare goes up, your user base goes down. if the share goes down, then your service is irrelevant. there are plenty of virtualization/remote solutions out there. some as a resource addendum ( aws) and some for variable platforms ( deviceanywhere-for phones). aws - cause an individual developer cannot own such resources ;deviceanywhere-cause the phones and their os platforms change at a rapid pace. where does your service fit in this landscape? i can see your product being used by offshore dev teams , but still paid for by US companies. that again is an even smaller market.
I'd like the option to maybe pay $50/yr for 20 or 30 accounts. I have a couple of sites that need more than 10 accounts but can't justify paying $50 per.

But who knows? Maybe Google saw that most businesses use 15 or 20 email accounts, so if they offered something like that, they'd lose a lot of money.
I Wouldn't Touch Groupon's Stock At The IPO Price With A 50-Foot Pole
"Touchscreen that civilians care about."
Okay, not to talk down to you, but something that you'll eventually learn is that the really "affluent" people will rarely ever tell you, and they'll never say something about helping you get to their level unless you ask them.

The "maybe you should learn to hustle and someday you can be like me!" thing comes from lack of self-confidence; the term for this has historically been "nouveau riche".

I've linked this many times, but read it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/154/why_real_men_wear_pink/

If you're talking about automobiles as a social signaling mechanism, "real men drive Audis."

Not to be an outright prick here, but "learn to hustle like me, [plebian]" definitely doesn't come across as affluent.

And if we're talking about automobiles, the two wealthiest people I know drive cars that cost them less than $20,000. One is a founder of a company that you use every day but might not have heard of, the other is the CEO of a company you definitely use every day, and have definitely heard of.
I don't. My point is that Stallman is an ascetic and really gains nothing but prestige (such as it is) from his actions. I don't see Limbaugh making sacrifices to live in line with his extreme ideology.
I think you've gotten to the gist of things here. I vehemently disagree with you, but I believe you are in the majority. It reminds me of this:

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” -- Benjamin Franklin

IMO, you're giving up freedom and getting a lot less than security.

As for the other part of your comment: remember that iOS is based on Unix, so a world without Unix is also a world without iOS.
i don't buy this 'a good contender for iOS'.

they are different leagues.

The people that consider an android or ios as equals and decide on device color or price won't even know what this table is about.

history is repeating. iOS is a IBM mainframe. with it's golden cuffs. Android is the radio shack PC. with it's "require soldering".

i give that android is still in it's infancy. and that the availability of OSes are few. just like in the beginning of the PC era all you had was BASICshells. all you have now for android is Android and some slighly different shells. but soon an android device will be like a PC. you can choose your linux distro. and then you will have the option of having full control of your mobile, just like you have of your servers.
Can you please explain why you think NYC needs Stanford? They seem to be doing just fine without them.
that's choosing the lesser of two evils.

my nexus one shows as green, yes, i have all the latest software, but no fix yet for the touchscreen issue. That alone would make the nexus one RED since launch on that table for me, as this hints to zero support.

try to use your touch screen for 10min while the device is charging from an empty battery (some other use cases also trigger the bug, but this is 100% reproductible)
Stallman has once again said exactly what I would expect Stallman to say. I admire(d) and respect(ed) both Stallman and Jobs. Even if their views are diametrically opposed (although I wouldn't say Jobs' position is actually at the complete opposite end of the spectrum), they both managed to advance computing in ways that no one else could have. Although I would expect Stallman to hate what Jobs has done, I wish he would try to understand why people value his work so intensely. Stylish and smooth is only the beginning.
I would not kill an animal myself, but I had parts of at least two distinct ones for lunch today.
How do you expect Stanford opening a graduate campus in NYC will bring "valley perspective" to NYC? It takes people and I don't see anyone wanting to move from Palo Alto to NYC.
Meetup is super useful because people can join the group, and then be notified of future events. Which is much easier than getting a thread to survive on the front page for a day.
I'm not an expert, either, and I don't know of much precedent for interviews like this with an individual author being publicly released (say, on the web, rather than in a university archive), but private archival materials are used by historians and biographers all the time. I don't know whether Isaacson or his publisher own the rights, but I'm sure others will ask for access in the future.

I'm not sure about characterizing a biography as a "commercial product"; although although it is the source of the author's livelihood, and the publisher is a for-profit entity, it is a complex entity as a product. The author depends in this livelihood in having access to materials from others, it is not unreasonable to think he may reciprocate in some circumstances. In any case, in future years (after the initial sales peak of the bio), releasing the source documents may even cause a revival of interest that helps residual sales.