skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that you can as of today get a 3GS free with contract. Don't underestimate Apple's desire to push competitors out of the low end of the smartphone market. Steve Jobs always said that the Mac went premium when they should have been going for market share and that Apple wouldn't make such a mistake again. Supporting the 3GS is critical for that. Especially when you consider global expansion.

The iPad 1 does not have contract lock-in and is not actively being sold by Apple. Apple is not facing serious tablet competition right now so what incentive do they have to support the iPad 1? What are people going to do, throw out the iPad 1 for a Kindle Fire? Maybe if Windows 8 or Android get their act together, but right now, Apple is chasing demand and has little incentive to support old hardware when they can push you into the new one. This is why the tablet space needs some real competition.
The GPS app I bought does offline turn-by-turn just fine on my iPhone 4. Apple can't pull off the same?
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2010?? Did they forget to hit 'publish' when this was still timely?

These statistics take time to collect and process. For example, it takes 3 quarters for the BEA to finalize their GDP estimate for a given quarter, and that number continues to revise every summer for the following 3-5 years or so. Can't remember the exact timeline, but these numbers take time.
I know a dude who's done fulltime HD video editing with a MacBook Pro for years. Not 2K or 4K though. Out of curiosity, have you tried editing video with a top-of-the-line MBP and been frustrated? For special effects/render-heavy stuff I know you can never have enough cycles, but for typical editing I'd be surprised to hear that recent laptops cause much of a bottleneck.
Since when is notifications and turn by turn exclusively Android features ?

They both existed years before Android was even a figment in someone's mind.
Shitty Business Ideas, Care of Google's Play Store
Great work Fred! Happy to be a client and a supporter of what you guys have pulled off. Good stuff!
Oh, you didn't see the fine print.

* Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later. Cellular data charges may apply.

* Siri will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad (3rd generation) and requires Internet access. Siri may not be available in all languages or all areas, and features may vary by area. Cellular data charges may apply.

* Shared Photo Streams requires iOS 6 on iPhone 4 or later or iPad 2 or later, or a Mac computer with OS X Mountain Lion. An up-to-date browser is required for accessing shared photo streams on the web.

* FaceTime over a cellular network requires iPhone 4 or later, or iPad 2 or later with cellular data capability. Carrier data charges may apply. FaceTime is not available in all countries.

* VIP list and VIP and Flagged smart mailboxes will be available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later.

* Offline Reading List will be available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later.
Thanks for the great comment,

I'm not quite sure I understanding what you mean by converting into a comment system or wiki type product. Are you saying we should implement the editor in a product and then sell it with the editor for $299?

I like your WordPress plugin idea and this is indeed something we are considering and at a similar price point. The target market for WordPress plugins is obviously a lot larger as well.

TheSunny
very well put.
As others have noted, it was wealth Americans never really possessed. The data point that I'd find most interesting is how much debt was accumulated on the back of that phony wealth. That is, how much more debt were Americans able to accrue specifically because of the bubble (than they otherwise would have been able to).

Losing bubble wealth is bad enough (the psychological impact alone), losing it when you've stacked debt against it is a very real problem. The fake wealth was used to create very real debt. Suddenly you've got 1/3 of all home owners under water on their mortgages.
Magsafe is six years old, so I'm willing to cut Apple a break on that one.
The turn by turn could heavily integrated with the Siri functionality, which is only on the 4S. Total guess but it seems to make some sense.
State Department Spent $16.5 Million on 2,500 Kindles
Why cant these damn people just keep their noses out of the internet? Seriously, leave it alone. Yeah, yeah, I know, but really, poke the thing enough with a stick and in then end you'll kill it.
You should do it! That is what I was given at work and will say it is better than any other laptop that I have ever used.
That's interesting... I didn't realize this until you said it. I currently have the 15" MBP at 1680x1050. Buying the new retina display would be a downgrade in screen real estate, since it would show an equivalent 1440x900. Sure it would be crisper, but when I'm developing on my laptop, it's all about screen real estate.

This is odd.
The reason iOS 6 supports 3GS isn't for the people who bought one in July 2009. The reason iOS 6 supports 3GS is for the people who bought one today for $0.99.
Great to know that this might be something you're willing to pay for.

Different classes and better link handling are on the roadmap which you can find on the "What's Coming" page.

We plan to make the UI easily modifiable so that you can use anything to style it. This is one of our goals.

There's a lot more to come.
Powershell is hardly broken.
You do not need a paper boarding pass to go through security with TSA. They accept the QR codes via smartphone screens. There are scanners at the point where they mark paper boarding passes.
Heroes of Linux
Just a wasted 1 year...
Not much of an improvement since iOS 5.
Maps (with turn-by-turn navigation) and offline reading seems nice, but nothing else.
Is anyone doing thorough reviews for Apple products? With technical details such as component specs (CPU/SSD/display), real world battery life testing and so on.

Did all Macbooks get Ivy Bridge update or not?
I owe you a beer. Why the heck have I not thought of that before?
Recycle your old Mac for an Apple Gift Card
We've built a tool called TeamSnippets.com to help keep teams in sync - I believe it works extra well for remote teams.

On an interval you like, we send out an email to each team member reminding them to write a status update of what they've been working on. Everyone's status updates are gathered into a summary email sent out the next day.

We're in our free beta right now and would love some feedback. Give us a try at http://TeamSnippets.com
IIRC he was given a chunk of stock in a Linux IPO and while he lost most of its value in the dot-com crash, it still left him some spare change; add on consulting, royalties, the occasional job like being president, basic nerd frugal living, and you probably have the whole story.
IOS 6 beta for Developers, SDK
I do not own any apple products because they are outrageously expensive.

Why do I think I should buy Macbook Air? Because laptop should be that light and thin.

Why I use Linux? It's dead simple. A single command or a simple script can make system management and other tasks so straight forward and no brainier. I have total control on what I want on my system. Of course their is a learning curve but that's the main reason I visit HN.
Maybe you could use the steam to pre-heat the water that enters the system? If the water is at 60C instead of 20C to begin with, that will reduce the amount of energy needed to boil it. Besides, all that steam needs to be condensed back to water anyway if people are going to drink it. (I think that's what they already do in advanced "multi-stage" distillation plants.)

Theoretically, you could also add a steam turbine to make some extra electricity on the side, but I don't know how efficient such an add-on might be.
So how does one address the root anxiety?
No.

The difference between RMS and ESR is one of kind, not one of degree. Both the free software movement and the open source movement believe that open system are good, and the more open they are the better they are. The difference is in their answer to the question of "why?"

RMS and his adherents believe in inalienable human right to tinker, and consider limitations to that right, such as closed source technology, to morally offensive. ESR and his followers believe that open technology is better technology and that the benefits of technology are more fully realized when it's possible to tinker with it. RMS is concerned with morality, ESR with practicality.

The key thing here is that there's no spectrum with the RMS on one end, Steve Jobs on the other end and ESR somewhere in the middle. The open source movement is just as ardent, just as committed and just as "extreme" as the free software movement, but more successful.

Now perhaps you mean that the FSF serves an important function, in that their fanaticism makes the open source movement look more reasonable and thus more acceptable to the mainstream. But I think the very fact that actual positions held by free software and open source advocates are so similar make it hard for mainstream observers to appreciate the distinction.

So no, we don't need people like RMS.

[edited the last line for clearer rhetoric]
echo 'inoremap kj <Esc>' >> ~/.vimrc # works like a charm
MacBook Pro Retina Display: Webmasters, get ready
Although it’s nothing new, it’s still a good reminder for those folks who are now ready to buy that fancy next gen MacBook Pro.
Right, and it's still PowerShell.
That's ridiculous. Apple clearly states 3GS here:

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/
He says how it's basically a json file with every image mapped to coords of each voronoi "tile". I guess it was handmade in advance
Thanks Badragon for the comment.

It's good to hear that people will pay for a good product, even with the availability of free alternatives. Of course, we would have to offer a superior product.

We already have the ability to add different classes than H1, H2, etc. and we can do this very elegantly. In fact, we support something called named styles. Here's a few definitions.

Title: div.title > Subtitle

Subtitle: div.subtitle > Normal

This tells us that we have a named style called "Title" that is represented by a DIV element with class "title" and that after you hit enter at the end of it, it will end up in the "Subtitle" named class. This is already implemented but not exposed because we haven't built the UI for selecting Named Styles as a dropdown in the beta. This will be in there for the production release though.

We will most likely have sets of "Named Styles" that are compatible with Twitter Bootstrap and other common frameworks at some point. You will also be able to easily create your own Named Styles, probably in an online UI that will build your editor for you.

Note that once you define the Named Styles, the editor whitelists to them so you can't get "illegal" element/class combinations which lets you (the developer) keep the HTML consistent for your needs instead of hoping your users won't break your styles.

We'll keep in mind the ability to add a target for links. We hadn't thought about the need for this until you mentioned it.

TheSunny

[edited for spacing]
What's this about Silver UI? I read the article and can't find any mention of it; as far as I can tell iOS 6 looks exactly like 5 did.
But they've added a lot of new developer APIs, which is the loveliest part. But as an avid iOS user, I call my beloved platform semi-broken until it gets a decent inter-app communication channel (something better than documents in the cloud). I'm disappointed that I have to wait for at least iOS 7 for that...
It's fun marketing games as it is irrelevant, these features have been on Android since 2.3 so that's where the comparison should be.
Generally, a teacher making $100,000 teaches about 125. That's $800.00 per student per year (aprox. $5.00 per student per day). Teaching 30,000 requires a completely different infrastructure. @ $29.00 each, that's $870,000 per year -- roughly 6 teachers plus support staff.

5,000 students per instructor.

My point in all of this is that free is not free and that those who are willing to build courses and content at this scale need to be compensated somehow for their time.

Being able to make a living will draw more people. More instructors, more classes, more choices, better classes, better content, etc.

This is important point that seems to be missing from the online education discussion.
Kickstarter comes to mind unless I miss what she is saying.
An iPad 1 is not trash, even though it can't run iOS6. I suspect you'll be surprised how well it holds its value when you resell yours.
Your blog really gives no direct info about who you are (I now see that things would have been clarified if I had clicked through to your twitter account), making it hard to tell whether you are truly independent or a marketing person for MeetingBurner. Credibility really wasn't helped by your blog post being submitted by a MeetingBurner founder (according to his/her HN profile).

Anyway, I've verified the screen shot for this post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4096538
showing somewhat similar behavior by GoToMeeting toward Dim Dim, so it does seem that this story is legit.
This is one of those things where I wish the report would include their methodology. This report was brought up during the "Great Bottled Water Debate" at Google and a couple of people wondered how they came up with their numbers.

As it turns out, if you sit at a dump site (at least in Northern California, and Google is fortunate to be built right next to one) and watch the trash being unloaded you will note that there is little recyclable material left in the trash when it gets there, further the waste management company does some separation as well because they get to keep any money they get from the recyclables that get that far (unlike the ones in the cans at the curb which they split with the city).

What was clear though was that between a fairly large homeless population which relies in part on recycling fees and waste management contracts that are structured to provide a disproportionate benefit to the waste management company, they both get paid for disposing 'X' tons of waste which is measured on the way in, and they get paid for 'Y' tons of recyclables they recover post ingress weigh-in so its a double win for them.

The result is that in California there are several mechanisms in place which select for recycling. This results in very little recyclable material actually getting into landfills (which is good) but it also makes statements like the one you link, essentially false.
Try Ctrl+Shift+Eject as a shortcut key to lock your screen without needing extra software.
What's so great about Ivy bridge specs? I'm underwhelmed because electrical economy failed to materialize.
Not necessarily. You can do wildcards in text ads where the matching term gets inserted. Not saying that's what they did, but it definitely doesn't have to be done by hand.
Turn-by-turn navigation requires 3D hardware?
WWDC 2012 Keynote Streaming Video
So it's more appropriate to say you don't mind fanaticism as long as you agree with most of what they're saying, not because fanaticism is good.

Typical hypocrisy. It's like saying "Yeah, I'm all for free speech... EXCEPT those guys who disagree with me."

Guess what? The other side feels the same way. Their guy is moving the Overton window in the direction they want. RMS and Ron Paul are not pragmatic to them.
Intellectuals are also susceptible to cognitive dissonance and compartmentalization

True enough! I guess what I really mean is that if rational processes don't lead to Christianity, you would never see people convert by following those processes. But they do all the time!

I think Lee Strobel is a good example, really. As somebody with a Master's in law and a background as a criminal investigative journalist, he certainly is reasonably well qualified to understand what evidence is and how it works. And the story he tells about his conversion is that he undertook to investigate Christianity by the same standards he would expect to use in a court case, and found it true!

Now, you could claim he's lying about that -- that he really wanted to convert because his wife did (though the story he tells is that he wanted to assemble evidence to challenge her). Or you could claim he did an incompetent job -- as critiques of his book often do. But I don't think you can claim the process he documented Case for Christ wasn't rational or evidential.

What I mean is, you don't have to buy his arguments. But I don't think you can fault him for buying them.
And I don't think you can call his process anything but rational. Sure, he doesn't seem to set his prior probability on God's existence as low as some people would like, but he does certainly appear to be following the evidence where it leads.

Moreover, it's my perception as a Christian that, "Tried to evaluate Christianity to prove it false, was qualified to do so, found it true, converted" is a common story for Christian apologists. It applies to Josh McDowell, G.K. Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis, just off the top of my head. (Not to mention a number of personal friends of mine.) You can say these folks are all lying or deluded, but I think that's an unlikely claim. If they didn't arrive at Christianity by rational means, they sure do a convincing job of writing like they did!
When I got my Thinkpad W500 with a 1920x1280 display four years ago people complained over the Internet about those tiny pixels you can hardly see. It didn't have a funny name though and was just a display.
So RMS doesn't really believe in free software?
Apple Live Bloggers Reviewed
iOS is a mature platform at this point. Apple doesn't usually shuffle things around or make huge changes just to say they did it. It has to fix a specific problem or add enough functionality to justify increasing complexity. Some significant changes weren't really covered in detail (App Store redesign) so likely there will be more to come on iOS6 when the 6th generation iPhone is released. (or just read the rumor sites later today to get all the little details)
Ask HN: How many users should you plan for when launching?
We are going to launch in about 2 weeks. We are currently using Virtual Shared hosting and it has been working great when we run performance tests using few hundred users (<300). We start to see problems when we crank the numbers up to 1000 users at 5-10 second intervals.

Just curious how many users should we plan for when launching. Also, is it too early to move to dedicated server or stick with virtual share hosting?
And as a parallel - the EU cookie law:

I used to be able to allow only session cookies. Now I get asked if I'm cool with cookies every time I visit a ton of major websites, and the only way to stop the message coming back? Allow persistent cookies. Ugh!
Yes but major features like Siri and turn by turn wont work on the 3GS (or 4), which I think says a lot as well.

Check smackfu's comment for device feature support breakdowns:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4096633
My point was that QT has adopted the new ideas from C++ (like the new override operator), where as wxWidgets (last time I looked, a few years ago) has barely moved to using the STL for containers.

wxWidgets is a much more conservative framework, where QT seems to embrace the new stuff (and provide backwards compatible hooks where possible).

Of course, you could use different C++ styles and ignore "what you don't like" from either framework, but there's a little impedance mismatch.
> Someone at Samsung is really dropping the ball and I hope they're shown the door soon

Amen brother. It's astonishing to me that so much of what Apple creates is actually made by Samsung, and yet they constantly seem so far behind.

Have you seen their new 15" Ultrabooks though? They are awesome. 15" screen and weighs more than a pound less than the new MBP (obviously, with tradeoffs)

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP900X4B-A02US
Many years after found the Open Source Initiative, ESR stated publicly that he never made any money from it, and having read most of his writings from that period and a lot of commentary on the organization, I find that statement credible.

Also, he has claimed at least a couple of times over the years that he was (at the time of the claim) a consulting programmer.
This has been in HTML for almost 2 years now. Rather than being a step forward foe the mobile web, it shows how behind the mobile web is, as the two most dominant players in mobile only update their browsers once a year.

I'm guessing iOS6 doesn't add support for IndexedDB either. So we're stuck using the deprecated WebSQL until mid 2013 or later.
There are serious problems around the upper right corner. I did not get any results from there. I'm wondering whether the pictures are originally pointing that coordinate or are they resized+translated to some offset?
Mostly #2.
I tried the idea that went nowhere (http://picocrew.com/presents/picocrew) I explain the workflow in that post, perhaps I am attacking the problem from a different angle.
Not sure I'd use a Thermaltake product with mixed reviews as an example here...
I don't market it :P
New 12-core Mac Pro, starting at $3799
Yes, you are right about the new APIs.
Since i'm not an iOS developer, i was looking from the eye of an end-user.

"I'm disappointed that I have to wait for at least iOS 7 for that..."
Couldn't agree more.
How the hell is the median wealth of Americans 77k?! Does this not factor in debt?
WWDC 2012 / Apple ios 6 / Macbook pro / OS X Mountain Lion / Keynote
The Mac Pro is dead. Many audio and video guys I know have already switched to PC or built / bought a Hackintosh.
A better phrasing would be: "things that ought to be written in a highlevel language frequently turn out to be written in C".
You can change the DPI in Windows. Not all apps properly support high DPI settings, but that probably won't be different on OSX, at least in the beginning. What you can't do in Windows is have different DPI settings for different displays, and I wonder how a retina MacBook will work with a non-retina external display.
I like UDub even tho I never went there (in fact i'm headed there right now) but I really hope they enforce the stated minimal program qualifications, i.e. applicants show aptitude in math, engineering, database design, programming, or the other thing slisted:

http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/data-science/downtown-sea...
An all encompassing framework is useful if you want cross platform - you can still have Createfile(Handle) fopen(FILE*) if you want with a bunch of #ifdefs.

Most of it's own collection classes have been replaced with std:: versions. There is still QString but it does a lot more than std::string, especially if you need to be multi-lingual

Signals/slots I like more than the boost equivalents. The multithreading probably is better in c++11
Impressed by all the new accessibility features! Guided Access seems like it will be hugely useful for both parents and professionals working with children with autism - in addition to the example from the keynote of administering tests on the iPad.
custom. looks like the RAM is custom too, just like on the Air.
"Power users" are probably the single worst demographic of all of them. Overly demanding, opinionated, and sometimes ill-informed.
The new intel graphics are much better for gaming without going to discrete graphics.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-Benchmar...
Magician arrested for robbing banks
IOS 6 Maps
From the sales charts, it seems this is what the customers want, too. For some reason folks like to believe that Apple is somehow "fooling" customers into buying that experience. What if it's simply what non-developers want? Isn't that a simpler explanation?
Anandtech is good if you want the nitty gritty detail.