skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I would have been satisfied with a 4.5 hour battery life claim, if it was lighter than the iPad 2.
That's too bad. I held off on the original iPad because it felt too bulky and heavy. The second one was significantly thinner and lighter, so I bought one and have been using the hell out of it for the past year.
Screen area costs money. Also, economy of scale; the iPad outsells any laptop model by a wide margin.
The store went down just as the checkout page (page after the smart cover upsell page) was loading. I auto refreshed on that URL and was able to place my preorder a few minutes ago.
Let's not be silly. Existing LTE phones on Verizon get a real-world top performance in the 20Mbps range. Now, that's great and all, but no one will ever get even 50% of what's basically the signaling rate of 73Mbps.

Also, your download patterns are unlikely to change a lot. It'll still be email, web surfing and some youtube. LTE makes netflix possible while not on wifi, but that's about the most data-hungry thing an average user is going to do. For the most part the only thing this changes is that things like installing apps when off wifi are much faster.
I think this is one way Apple brings their marketing in line with how average consumers think. Most non-gadget people don't know the difference between the iPhone 4, 4S, and 3GS , other than price. They assume the more expensive one is better and does more stuff. But model numbers (even if it's just a single number) are not the way most consumers think.

Similarly, the iPhone 4S simply says "iPhone" on the back and is not easily differentiated from the original iPhone 4.
I disagree. It is github's duty to provide a realistic view of the situation.

Such an attack is unlikely, yes, but still possible.
On my first trip down there a few months ago, I used the Foodspotting app and it really helped me out. I think they really nailed what Yelp purports to do.
Won't this make it hard for developers to develop apps on Macs that still have only 1920x1080 displays?
I believe folks have already seen evidence in OSX that Apple will be doing "retina" displays for laptops and desktops. Continued movement towards a resolution-independent OS.
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I'm wondering if my grandfathered unlimited plan with AT&T can be applied to the iPad?
There is a model identifier, it's just hidden in the system profiler (Mid 2011 air is MacBookAir4,2)
Not really. If you make a new commit on top of the history, then nobody will notice unless you sign every commit (which i don't think is common practice).

Only modifying (existing) history will cause git to complain.
I was wondering the same thing. I expected this to be about click tracking, but it is just using the hacker news api to count the points or comment counts to produce the overlay.
I’m extremely happy that Apple is picking battery life over thickness and weight. It shows that they have their priorities straight: battery life is by far the best features of the iPad’s hardware. As long as the weight and size don’t get too crazy (and they are still doing better than the first iPad) picking battery life is always the right choice.
Having two separate lobby buttons which take you to the same floor is extraordinarily confusing to me. I had to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something because it seems like an obviously bad idea. But no, that's the plan:

"Adding a big lobby button at the top will make it faster to identify and hit the lobby button, while persisting the existing lobby button on the bottom."

The clear solution is to make the existing lobby button twice as wide, right? I'd have been very interested to see the results of a layout like that.

That said, elevator buttons are in need of redesign. I have never in my life hit the "hold open" or "close now" buttons because something about the triangles confuses me about which is which, in the short time I have during which they'd take effect.
As a web programmer I understand where you're coming from, but as a UX designer I whole heartedly disagree.

Bootstrap is a wonderful tool for getting your app out there without having to do much on a design level. But I believe that websites with a distinct look and easy UI that reflects their functionality is way better than a monotonous string of websites with no distinction between their design.

For instance Twitter's design is beautifully streamlined for it's functionality, which is to show a constant flow of micro-information. As opposed to HN's listed threads which show link based data. These designs even though they differ seem "natural" based on their functionality and require little to no mental effort.

Good UX does not require mental effort.

Furthermore, a unique look is how others identify sites. It's Twitter's UI looked exactly like Facebook's, more would have trouble distinguishing the two. This would hurt the site's capability to make an impression in the user's memory.

With no distinction between websites, how will the casual user remember you?
That's how the iPod has generally worked. The current Nano is packaged as "iPod nano" not "iPod nano 6".
Even if Google becomes "editorial" with games, there's no reason to believe that the people in editorial roles will be at all competent. I would bet against it. Google, without a doubt, has hundreds of people inside the company who would be awesome in such a role... but they'll never be picked.

Google's founders are brilliant, and the line engineers are great, but between those two sets there are layers upon layers of stewing, necrotic incompetence, a result of this being that some really horrible ideas (such as a performance review system that has everyone-- not just managers-- dropping everything for 2 weeks every fall to write reviews) see implementation while good ones die in obscurity.
Is it just me or do the comparison pics of the old iPad screen vs. new retina display on this page look exactly the same? http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

Edit: never mind, there's a zoom widget I didn't notice.
I've never used Yelp, beyond stumbling on the site when looking for restaurant reviews through Google. But as a follower of technology news, I have read much about it and its controversies. Add this one to the pile. It definitely calls into question their slogan, "Real People. Real Reviews."

But even if the controversies are unfounded...$1.5BB blows my &!%#ing mind. My personal perception is that I'm not even sure I trust the reviews.
Tuples reminds me of RDBMS
Concerns about asteroids or global warming and so on are moot. We won't be here as a species pumping CO2 into the atmosphere or waiting around helplessly for a rock to crash into the surface.

Unless a rock the size of Texas hits tomorrow.

Extinction only a generation before it's possible to avoid it.

It would be ironic except there won't be anyone left to appreciate the irony.
Apple doesn't let you download anything (apps, movies) bigger than 50mb over a cellular connection.
What is it about it that made you want it so much? There will be Android tablets with just as high or higher resolution very soon, and with stronger CPU's than the still dual core Cortex A9 chip in the iPad 3.
"Quad-core graphics" seems like misleading marketing to trick people into thinking A5X is equivalent to Tegra 3; this seems like a shame since Apple could presumably win without it.
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If you have more than 4 months left on your contract, it will be cheaper to cancel it now.
It's mindblowing. When my last laptop broke, I had to turn to eBay to get a PC laptop with a decent screen... HP briefly sold a 1600x900 14" screen in the Envy line then discontinued it, so I found a used one and paid a premium for it. Everything in every retail store was 1366x768, washed out and dim.
Ah, I didn't check that. It still means a bad key could have been used for evil, just that there would be clear evidence left behind.

The issue is that I've had lots of ssh keys, and might not have my fingerprints for all of them. If I see a bad fingerprint, it's entirely probable it's just an old key of mine from an old laptop, cellphone, script, or whatever, and NOT an attacker's key.

But, in light of this attack which you revealed, now any account which contains keys which aren't 100% accountable could have been compromised by an attacker. (in fairness, someone who stole the github user password could have done the same thing too, but that's an obvious attack route)

Key management is such a pain!
That's interesting to know. Still, considering the hundreds of models of laptops available, it's a very very small percentage that offer anything other than 1366x768. The Macbook's minimum resolutions is 1440x900 and they offer 1680x1050 as an option.
I think the opposite is true--Apple's laptops actually have much lower resolutions than some other options. The 13" laptop I'm currently using (which is even lighter than an Air) has a 1600x900 resolution; if I had been willing to order online they would have upgraded it to 1920x1080 for free (but I am not a patient man and at 13" that's a bit of overkill).

If Apple releases a retina screen Air, I would seriously consider getting it. If they make one about as heavy with a high resolution and a 15" screen, I'm definitely getting one unless it has a slow SSD or is really incompatible with Linux.
Since the pixels are multiplied by 4, and the GPU only by 2, does this means the real world performance (in games) of the iPad 3 GPU should be half the performance of iPad 2?
The first round of questions you would use to establish whether or not the candidate will have the vocabulary to work with the other members of your team. There is nothing worse than hiring a carpenter who can't communicate with the other carpenters he's building a house with.

Once you've established you can talk to this guy (and he can talk to you) you'd ask him to show of his skills.
I agree with you but to be precise full disk encryption does not provide any benefit that is not met by encrypting user writeable mounts. Encrypting /usr, /bin, /lib etc does nothing in this situation.
Ouch, Just ordered 32gb 4g (AT&T) $780 with tax.
If I were not using it for development it would hurt a lot more however it still is about double what I would be comfortable with for my own use.
I see, thanks for the great explanation.

I admit the thought that some users aren't using JS concerns me because, while I try and always build sites with a fallback, it generally results in a lesser experience. Often fallbacks just aren't possible so I need to remove the feature altogether.

I bet there's a lot of sites that still work for you, but not quite as well as if JS were enabled.
few months ago designers' increasing role was the focus, and now is good design a commodity?
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I get several pieces of junk mail per day. When asked to remove me from a list, they often ask my name or social security number. They should only need my address because that is what they use to send it, but they want all sorts of personally identifying info, which I am simply unwilling to provide. I have started recording these discussions and plan to post them publicly, but I am unsure of the ethical nature of doing so. Your thoughts?
Well, Spore is a multi layer game, but it's "Massively single player", and it didn't manage to couple the layers as well as was originally hoped.

One problem is that the different layers want to run at different time scales, so you have to decouple the flow of time of each layer, and somehow reconcile things when you move up and down between them. And of course a multi player game can't have the same clock for everybody, so players will get out of synch with each other. Spore avoids that problem by not synchronizing player time, just sharing user created content asynchronously.
I use Urbanspoon as my standard restaurant resource. Its reviews are separated into 3 discrete categories: major publications, a (curated?) selection of local food blogs, and user-submitted. I also far prefer the layout, and I'm shallow like that.

I'm not sure if they also have an advertising ransom system, a practice I've heard Yelp accused of several times before this article. I have seen blatant examples of restaurants spamming their own favourable user reviews, I'm not sure if they clean that up. But I've been generally satisfied with Urbanspoon's results.

Though it also lists Sol Food at the top for your area, so it may not be what you're looking for:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/g/6/304/SF-Bay/Marin-restaurants
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you can put anyone's sim in this one
I'm always kind of surprised that the online store doesn't update instantly. I have to imagine that their "We'll be back soon" splash page kills a lot of potential impulse purchases.

It seems to be back now, but the iPhone is showing "From $0", and clicking on the iPad gives an "Oops" error page. Couldn't this all be worked out in staging?
Ask HN: How would you scale Apple's web store?
Apple's web store goes down after every announcement. Clearly, they have a huge amount of traffic, but shouldn't it be possible to handle that kind of traffic spike?

I don't have much experience on that scale, so I'd like to hear from some experts about how it could be done.
> Just because a process has fit an exponential curve does not mean exponential growth is going to continue forever.

Did you watch the video? This is precisely what it's talking about. Though the economy and energy usage have grown up exponentially for the past two centuries, we cannot hope that it will go on forever. Population growth isn't a concern per se, resource overconsumption and the impossibility of future economic growth are.
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Personally, I would prefer to be able to still buy laptops (or any monitor for that matter) with a more "square" ratio.

I have a new laptop with a 1366x768 resolution but my older P4 laptop with 1280x1024 (or thereabouts) is much more pleasant to write code (or write anything) on. Those extra 266 vertical pixels just make all the difference especially when you have so many toolbars etc.

I don't understand why everything has to be widescreen now, it may be preferable for movies but that's surely not the main use case for a computer. That's what a TV is for.
I think this link is titled wrong.

Nowhere is it referred to as iPad 3, iPad HD or anything like that. It's just "The new iPad"
I think it's just called the iPad. Right now it's new, so they're referring to it as the "new iPad".

This naming convention is simpler that appending a hardware version number to the name at each refresh. Also, it's what Apple currently does with most of their other product lines. It's the MacBook Pro, not the MacBook Pro 3. The iPods were always called just that, an iPod. People referred to them as the nth generation iPod, but Apple labeled them iPods. Easy.

I wouldn't be surprised if this naming convention spreads the iPhone.
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Talk to your optometrist.
Several comments below praise the Github team response to this vulnerability. I agree. But it should also be mentioned that the first email I sent to my company this morning read, "should [our product] source code be in the cloud?"
That moral weight to the future hypothetical people is something that I have just now put a name to (thanks!) and the more I think about it, the more places I see it, and the creepier it gets.

But on a purely biological note, natural selection favors just that: those who make more babies than anyone else, who then go on to make more babies than any of their contemporaries, etc etc etc.
And here is layered game, SliceCity: SimCity inside The Sims 1:

http://www.simslice.com/Slicecity.htm

Description: Slice City - "the other city that never sleeps". This city is awake and alive with hustle and bustle 24/7! Citizens use businesses, homes, parks, etc. for work and play, and these all cost you money to maintain. The happier the little people are in their habitat, the harder they will work, and the more profit you will make from them. Well-maintained cities can encourage more citizens to move in there. This will not only increase your population, but also your city size... and your profit margin. Cities that are neglected or not well-maintained will cease growing, or slowly deteriorate until they are nothing but piles of rubble. Using the various "disasters" (including a tornado option) can do that in much less time. ;) So to maximize your worker's output, keep all structures "refurbished". Your citizens may even help you do that on occasion too. And if you need more help, ask The Gardener. :)

The citizens also need power from the Power Plant to do any expanding. The Power Plant started in the "ON" position, but you can "Power it down" (by clicking on it) to stop your city from growing any further, and to keep your daily profits/costs stabilized (good for those that like the small town feel). "Power it up" again to allow for potential growth to resume (good for those that like the larger city life). City costs, profits and growth (if any) are calculated each midnight (between 11:55pm and 12:05am).

Lastly, click here for a few Slice City Gameplay Tips. If you come up with a good one, let us know and we can add to the list. We also have extra addon objects for you on our Slice City Addons Page. We sincerely hope you enjoy this, and if you have any questions or comments, please contact us :)

It even has its own add-ons:

http://www.simslice.com/Slicecityaddons.htm
Doesn't Creator's license restrict you from publishing a book authored with it on a different platform?
UAE and Palestine? Seriously? UAE has a questionable track record insofar as journalistic freedom is concerned. It ranks #112, below Liberia and South Sudan, in RSF's Press Freedom Index. What if one of the Emirs is offended by what I post on the site? Palestine ranks #153, not to mention you'd have to take Israel into consideration when you do anything Palestine-related.

Gandi.net is an excellent registrar, but I'm not sure about them anymore since they now operate in the UK and US as well. They even have a US-incorporated subsidiary.
Did this change just disable re-use of deploy keys across multiple repos?
It's spelled "iPad" and it's not the 3.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get back to my Desk 4 and have some Breakfast 2.
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That sort of depends on where the bottlenecks are, and what multiplying the GPU by 2 means. Basically, there's not enough info to say, and it'll probably require some benchmarking to tell.
I doubt they are using the same GPU that's in the iPad 2,I suspect that they went with a higher end GPU and made it Quad. We will have to wait for a teardown to know with 100% certainty though.
You're exemplar of this video subject: exponential growth can't go on forever, and you obviously didn't understand that. That's quite sad. Another article for reference:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
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At the very least, I think it is irresponsible for your product's source code to ONLY be in the cloud. Luckily git provides an easy way to keep a mirror (it's kind of automatic), but some kind of regular off-github backup, signing, etc. would make a lot of sense.
It comes down to the same issues that I have with templates of tumblr,posterous and wp. They all look the same. I think bootstrap should be used as a way to jumpstart the design process and not built a WHOLE website using the components bootstrap provides.

When I see that grey-black gradient nav bar i go "Haizz yet another bootstrap site."
I usually open with some nano questions. Sorry, but if you say you have 5 years of experience with C# but can't tell me which namespace List<T> or Stream or SQLDataReader is in, then we're done, because you're lying.
Using Apple's definition of a retina display, the MacBook Pros are already very close: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/01/retina-display-macs-ipads-and...

You hold your laptop significantly farther from your face than an iPad, thus a lower PPI is sufficient. However, a 9.7" display with the iPad's PPI is getting close to acceptable sizes for small laptops, like the 13" MacBook Pros.
Dead is relative. Dead usually means "dead to me".
I’m not really sure why you are angry at the carriers. Knowing about the limits and how much you need is kinda your job. I know that I need at least half a terabyte per month when I’m using my laptop and I know to always check how much bandwidth I can get from the carriers.

Your responsibility.
I have a degree in Mathematics, TYVM.

Human population isn't growing exponentially, only pseudo-exponentially.
try ness, if you have an iphone.
If you don't know much about design then Bootstrap is a wonderful way to make a decent looking website. Also, if you need to build a quick prototype then bootstrap is great. But, many web apps have unique functionality and requirements that are beyond Bootstrap.
I'm thinking the same thing. The ASUS infinity's 1920x1200 screen is probably high enough to qualify as "retina" for my eyes at normal viewing distances, and the dual-S4 appears to be at least twice as fast as a dual core A9. The WIFI model isn't quite as exciting because it only uses quad core A9.
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I had always considered getting one simply to be able to test personal web projects on it. This -- being the latest tech at the same price -- presents good timing to do so.

I'm an Android believer from a philosophical and practical perspective, however I have to credit Apple: they don't talk about an HD display and then bring it out six months later, but instead talk about it when the shipments are loading on the trucks. Further the empirical strength of the A5X, thus far unproven, may not always top artificial benchmarks, but they seem to get a heck of a lot more out of it.
I have a product in the local restaurant space. As a result I talk to lots of restaurant people - staff, primarily. It is overwhelming the vitriol I hear from them toward Yelp. Many people downright despise it.
> It seems to be back now, but the iPhone is showing "From $0"

This is actually the correct pricing for the iPhone, since the 3GS is available free when signing up for a 2-year plan from AT&T.
Exactly. You really are better off just trying out random places until you find the good places yourself. It's a fun process, at least! Then, when you find a great place, give it a 1-star review to keep the hoards away. ;) (Just kidding, of course.)
Is the loupe showing up for you? It didn't for me the first time I loaded the page, and I thought the same thing you did.

It should look like this: http://i.imgur.com/WUQ7n.jpg
Exactly, Apple sells around 2mil+ Macs/Qtr most of which are laptops however they sell 15+mil iPads. It's easier to get volume deals on 15 million displays then it is 1-2mil.
Why are you assuming it's linear?
The lack of transparency isn't surprising to me, as that's basically industry practice when it comes to the "special sauce" algorithms that power these recommendation engines (google, tripadvisor, whoever).

But the extortion part does surprise (horrify?) me. I'd love to see some more concrete proof that advertising on yelp results in a friendlier filter function for that business. I assume that there is enough publicly available information (just by scraping their site) to establish some kind of correlation between advertising and filter-friendliness, if one exists. Any of you up for the challenge?

I'd settle for seeing those communications w/the sales team referenced in the article, though.
But the other thing is quality. Viewing angles and color gamut tends to be horrible on laptops. Not so on the iPad.