skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
am not sure re-analysis is that important myself, but it looks like the SKA will be used in a pretty traditional way, with groups of astronomers applying to do particular observations. that means that the processing of data will likely be different for each group, and will probably take place over time (some poor grad student will likely spend most of their thesis - several years - on it).

the other approach - taken with something like the SDSS - is to make a telescope for just one task (typically a survey). then you can process the data and throw it away. i am pretty sure that is what SDSS did, and what, say, the LSST will probably do too (if it ever gets finished).

the advantage of the first approach is that you are much more flexible, which means more likelihood of making a big discovery (particularly when, as with this telescope, collecting area is larger than ever before, which means that you can see fainter and further back in time, making it ideal to study isolated, unusual objects - in contrast, survey telescopes make different technical compromises so that they cover a wider field of view), and also more chances to make and exploit upgrades over time. the downside is dealing with issues like this (another issue is data transport - traditionally you go to a telescope and then take the data home with you; i imagine we're now getting to the point where instead you will process data local to the data storage).

disclaimer: i was an optical astronomer, not radio, and that was years ago, so this may already be old news / incorrect in details. but the general idea should be ok.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
http://www.sdss.org/
http://www.lsst.org/lsst/

ps often telescopes do make data public after a certain time. but the idea is not so much to allow reanalysis as to make sure the people who originally took the data reduce and publish it. it's easy to postpone that kind of work, but the idea that someone else might do it and publish first is quite a motivator.
I recall he said it can be held in one hand, not "used" with one hand.
Sustainability is the ideal that (hopefully) we all strive for, because of the many negative effects of unsustainable business in the long term. Such as laying people off.

Good point though.
Any discussion involving the terms "apple hater" or "apple fanboy" immediately disappears into a hole of stupidity.

That said, Apple are inviting some of these comparisons. "More expensive", for example. The iPad Mini is more expensive than a Nexus 7, by a significant margin. Apple invited the comparison by comparing the two devices themselves on stage.
If you went to 28nm (current TSMC size, used by Qualcomm and NVidia for a few quarters already) from 45nm (size of A5X) then maybe not.
Larger screen, thinner, lighter, better camera and better performance. It's got some better specs.
That would have definitely been the much more sustainable approach. Although I have a feeling that offering discounts of 10-15% would not have resulted in the hysteria that they originally generated and thus would have limited traction. It is one of the many ironies of their story.
There is a finger sharpening accessory, $29.99.
IPad 4th generation twice as fast as iPad 3, iPad mini inherits iPad 2 specs
Exactly. Zynga laid off employees from a failing division? What's the problem? Who cares when it happened. Those employees should have seen the writing on the wall.
So I guess I've been "holding it wrong" all this time then. On a serious note that grip looks very stress-inducing for any average sized hand. Try stretching your thumb and fingers out all the way out like that, then tilt your palm so that it faces you. Now hold that kung-fu grip for more than 15 minutes. I prefer to do the bezel thumb and index finger hold... and then switch hands every once in a while.
You should write to the researchers.
Great, now I've got to learn electrical and mechanical engineering. Where's the Rails for hardware?!
Not sure I would call SimFarm (SimAnt or SimIsle) classic.
SimTower on the other hand.
Backups are 'jumping through hoops' now?

As others have said, breaking the DRM for personal uses (backups, changing devices) should be perfectly legal in the US and probably most of Europe as well.
From my past experiences I don't think an Android tablet is even comparable to an iPad unless it's one of the latest models.
He's not criticising the product, he's criticising the marketing.
were, not was. learn english modal verbs and subjunctive before soliciting business.
Never buy the first version of any new product.
In fairness, that specific marketing line is more than a little silly: it can't be both smaller than an iPad and as big at the same time; both devices can't be the "perfect" size when they are different.

Like all tech companies, Apple needs to be able to do subtle iterations and improvements, and their marketing teams are left to try to add an "r" to every evolution.
There are some flaws in your analogy.

1. Most people I know like Github's UI, so it makes sense to copy it. MS Office is not known for it's UI experience. So it doesn't make sense to copy it.

2. Creating a good UI is hard work. When you're Apple, you have the resources to throw at iWork. An open source project doesn't have the same resources, and they might spend a lot of time to end up with something worse than Github's UI.

To me it's a simple decision:
1. Spend a lot of time and end up with something that could be better than Github but will probably be worse OR
2. Spend little time to copy a design everyone is familiar with and likes.

I think a better analogy would be Gimp vs Photoshop. Supposedly Gimp can do almost everything Photoshop can, but what % of designers use Gimp? They have been slowly moving towards Photoshop's UI because they now realize how much of a factor that plays in adoption.
Get the Paperwhite. It's wonderful to read on, in any light. I've had a Kindle Keyboard, Kindle DX, iPad, Nexus 7, and Kindle Fire (original and HD), and the Paperwhite is far and away the best device. It also fixes a ton of the refresh-related issues with the recent Touch generation.

The only downside is PDF viewing, which you should still leave to device with more serious CPU and some auto-crop and fancy scrolling support (e.g., by quarter-pages).
Change title to " iPad mini" (an space at the beginning so HN doesn't automatically capitalizes it, and lowercase m)
To crib from Andrew Plotkin, there are only two reviews of Apple products:

"Nothing new, no one will buy it"

and

"It's too radical, no one will buy it"
If screw drivers are cheaper than hammers, we can just tie a bunch of screw drivers together and use them to pound in nails.

Considering the seek time of the robot arm. Striping data across four tapes just means you need to wait for the robot to grab four tapes.
Most likely that's true. In this case the company dedicated time and resources to making an app, and Facebook is enjoying some of the fruit of those efforts. And the fact that this kind of data can sell for $5 gives us an indication of the value of those efforts. [1]

[1] Not necessarily a good indication, as this may be a last ditch effort convert _some_ value out of their app development efforts, and who knows to how many buyers the seller has sold this data.
I've been meaning to get a Nexus 7 precisely because it fits comfortably in the inside breast pocket of my jackets. It doesn't sound like the iPad mini would do the same.
Apple just went through a die shrink to 32nm (starting with the 3rd-gen aTV and refreshed iPad 2), not doubting we'll see Apple go another stop smaller but not for a totally new product like this.
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You do realize that "Account status should not affect any customer's ability to access their library." was a restatement of their existing policy, not a change in that policy.
I thought this was weird, too. The reason I bought a Nexus 7 was because of the 7in screen. Saying "It's a smaller iPad, but bigger!" just wasn't doing it for me. Maybe it was an attempt to sell people on the higher price tag.
I was moderately impressed. Given how many people they were likely serving I'm surprised it held up as well as it did, but I found there was a few drop outs, audio dropping off and so on.

Nice to see Apple back to streaming live though.
I feel bad for all the Zynga people. Not for being so unceremoniously let go, but for the flood of recruiting emails they'll be receiving already. Good luck, people!
It's the same size an a Kindle Fire / Nexus 7, but lighter, with better battery life, a bigger display, better battery life, and a faster processor. Oh, and it's an iOS device so you can actually use it for something other than bragging about how cheap it was and propping up wobbly tables.
I guess we'll find out, but I got annoyed reading that a screen no one has seen is "much" higher quality than a screen that has better specs.
Steve changes his kind so much he'd probably claim it was his idea! :)

Like Bezos said recently, successful people change their mind, especially when confronted with great evidence like the Nexus 7.

Judging by the photos of the prototype iPad, I wonder if they ever made a prototype this size before deciding on the original iPad specs.

Anyway, I'm glad they didn't make it retina.
Groupon may never make money, but some company with a similar business model will eventually make a profit. What deal of the day sites offer that no one did before is an immediate and essentially limitless supply of customers.

Even if most companies lose their shirt on that, there are going to be some industries and situations where infinite customers at a temporary loss makes business sense, and once the market for it becomes rational again someone will be able to do it better than they could internally and make a profit on it.
Also, Facebook.
No. With momentum as it is currently, MS would have to have a device 2x or better on every front.
Which is exactly the opposite of what will happen. People are talking about it more because they tried to bury it during the Apple event.
It's 5.3" vs the N7's 4.7". My N7 with case fits in my pocket, so a bare iPad Mini should, but once you add a case, it may be a little too big.

(Totally agreed on the fits-in-pocket thing as a key value point, though!)
I am going to upgrade my iPad 3. I mean you can sell it to Amazon for $400, and buy a new one for $500+tax. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to basically lease the iPad 3 for six months for about $120.
It's prudent to do this as many people just leave ssh sessions hanging open forever, and their desktops don't auto-lock the screensaver.

It's still easily thwarted if the user keeps "top" running in it, or something.
Another way of looking at it is that AMD was always David to Intel's goliath. Intel screwed up big time with the Pentium 4; they designed the architecture for an extremely high clock rate, and ran headlong into a thermal dissipation brick wall. The Itanium, Intel's strange attempt to kill the x86 architecture which had brought them so much money, was another huge blunder. AMD exploited these opportunities. But unless Intel makes another big mistake, capitalism will do its thing and force AMD out of the market.

There was an announcement that AMD will make ARM-based chips in the near future. That niche might have some more air supply than the one they're in currently. However, they'll have a lot of competitors in the ARM space, so who knows.
In the promo video, they say "it's small enough to fit in one hand" at time 0:49, but later at 2:29 Ives says, "you can still pick it up and easily use it with one hand."

https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overview/#video-ipad-mini-fe...
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I have a Nexus 7 and an iPad. I find myself using the Nexus almost exclusively. This is probably because it's easier to carry around and if I'm going to carry something as big as the iPad I may as well just carry laptop.
I guess you could argue that Zynga employees have been dancing with the devil for the past couple of years. Any Zynga employee I ever talked to was very open about how they aren't really making games. They are just cynically generating revenue over flaws in the human condition.

I think if you work for a screwy company like Zynga you should be very paranoid about cashing out of the company. If they have such a low opinion of their customers, who is to say they won't have the same sentiment towards their employees.
I find it very hard to feel any pity for the employees that knowingly got involved with such a company, and I would be surprised if many of Zynga's best and most hardworking employees didn't jump ship long ago.
I use a Kindle for reading simply because of the lack of distractions. On the iPad I see notifications every time someone posts on Facebook, every time I get a new e-mail... it's hard to lose myself in the book.
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They did very much cherry-pick apps that run poorly on the N7. The equivalent would be demoing the N7 against an iPad running iOS apps that only have an upscaled iPhone variant.
Apple and VMware Team Up to Kill Microsoft Office?
Isn't that funny? You could be the same person with the same experience as you had in a company somewhere, and in one place it's undervalued and in a new place it's fairly valued (hopefully).
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Based on this I don't think they'll have a hard time finding new employment:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=zynga+%22ping+me%22+OR...
Coincidentally, HN's own robg just posted his new hardware startup here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4689244

Personally I think the biofeedback thing sounds very cool. I ordered a biofeedback device from some outfit a few years ago and never came close to getting the thing to work.
I find these essays really refreshing not only because of their content, but because they're evidence of someone searching for points of uncertainty and investigating them. PG seems to be always looking for what does not make sense and trying to figure it out.
Have you heard anything about what they plan to do with the 8gb when this happens? I've heard they'll stop making them, but it'd be nice to buy one of the leftover stock at a reduced price. I have an 8GB and it's fine for my needs (still 4.7gb free) since I mostly use it for online content.
I might be too Danish to get it but I for one can't stand the full-of-ourselves copy and acting in those videos. I buy many of their products so you might argue that they work anyway but it feels to me like I buy them in spite of the marketing.
yes you can, they didn't change the design for the new mini
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I didn't miss it. I just thought it was obvious enough it didn't need to be mentioned.
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I meant socially, not for push notifications. Since, after all , the goal is to engage more users. You don't need push notifications here at all.
I love my iPad (2) more than any gadget I own (including my beloved 15" MacBook Pro that has really changed my life), but think of your poor eyes and get the kindle thing. Fixing your eyes (if, after hours of developing on LCDs, you spend a few other hours reading on one) is in order of tens of thousands of dollars.
You get two cameras with the iPad Mini. Usable ones at that, it seems. The N7's (I have one too) front-facing camera is barely adequate for video calls.
I suspect:
1) compatibility (no need to redesign retina apps to fix the now absurdly small touch targets), and,
2) cost (lower resolution screens are probably easier to produce)
I'm of the opinion that the burden of proof is upon the law to justify its existence, and that I as a free sentient being have a right and/or responsibility to ignore any law that does not meet that burden of proof, and accept the consequences of doing so.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
This is great for ebooks but doesn't really apply so much to many other things that are DRMed which I might prefer to use for convenience. E.g. a DVD is DRMed and quite inconvenient to rip (and then you need to store the files somewhere).
It's about damn time
It's not a 7" iPad, it's 7.9" :-P
The best priced tablet out there right now is the Barnes and Noble Nook HD+. 9 inches, 1920x1200, for 269 bucks!

If it ran vanilla Android, it would have been a no-brainer for many of us.
Regarding your last comment about booting to Desktop: you can already access the full desktop and I'm guessing there's a preference to say "just boot me to the desktop".
I don't think I've ever had more than that on any of my iPads. I have more on my phone because I like to store music there, but the media I consume on the iPad is streamed.

On a related note, the use of storage as the differentiating price point is also infuriating--it's so cheap (about $1 a GB). Don't get me started on the inflated cost of cellular chipsets, $130 extra for the privilege of paying for mobile data to a specific carrier is a joke.
IPad Mini Released
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Apple loves to compete on specs when it's suitable. Size, weight, resolution, ppi, processor and gpu speed -- everything.

Of course, it's not like the two concepts UX and specs were independent; all of these things have an impact on the user experience, along with many others.
Cost Comparison: Rackspace Cloud Block Storage vs AWS Elastic Block Storage
If anyone qualified wants to dig in, http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-in... provides a series of references to their theory.
I wouldn't. That doesn't mean someone else wouldn't.

Heck if you can get 1000 students to do it, then it's just 2.5 minutes. Now that's something that even I would do.
That would be a doubtful reason to put on an application: "Corporate computer did not have script & embedded content control."
lol I came here to post that. Upvotes for you!
I tend to agree, but Zynga doesn't have enough good karma stored up to get much sympathy on this.
Exactly. Money exists to be extracted from fools at their expense, whether those fools are your investors, employees, customers, or all 3. That's real value in the market at work.
Done during the iPad Mini rollout no less, while the press was distracted. Nice one, Pincus.
Some people think games are frivolous. They're not

I love games and don't think they are frivolous for a moment. I'm not sure what that has to do with a discussion of Zynga, though.
They sell only the 16 GB version of iPad 2 (and have been, since iPad 3 was announced), so the answer is no. Definitely not.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video...
Because something has gone wrong at a fairly low level of the OS and you want to reboot to clear it out.

I know theoretically this shouldn't happen, but it does happen all the time - I've not yet seen a system that I've really never ever needed to reboot (excluding my toaster), and previous Windows have not been the least offenders in this regard, so I have no confidence that Windows 8 will be the first where I don't need it.
I think your parent's point was that if the union can guarantee that its members are high-quality, it will have a lot of leverage to negotiate with employers. A union taking that approach doesn't need to stipulate that employers only employ union workers or anything like that; it simply says "all of the best people work for us - if you want to hire them, you have to agree to our terms (re. salary, benefits, working conditions, etc).
"you can't just scale down the interface"

oops
Summary:
Rackspace standard storage vs AWS EBS (for 1TB of storage with 100 IOPS)

Results:
AWS = $126/month
Rackspace = $150/month

Rackspace SSD vs AWS PIOPS (for 1TB of storage with 1000 IOPS)

Results:
AWS = $225/month
Rackspace = $700/month

From the blog: "Rackspace's Cloud Block Storage offerings are positioned to rival AWS' EBS offering. They are priced slightly higher than AWS' offering, however as stated by Rackspace's official blog [1], they claim higher performance, SLAs and support."

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-block-storage/
It's endemic in the industry. With a few exceptions, try downloading any book printed before, say, the year 2000. A good example is the Kindle copy of Dune that Amazon sells. Spend $15 ($3 more than having the print version delivered to your doorstep!) on one of the most famous science fiction books of all time only to find that it's riddled with spelling errors, grammar errors, and word omissions. (Or just read the Amazon reviews that tell you as much.)

Another good example is the older Dark Tower books. I bought book 3 a year ago and it was in the same unreadable state. I also returned it for a refund.

New books aren't a problem, they're designed with ebooks in mind. It's just older books that the publisher quickly OCR'd and spammed Amazon with to make a quick buck.
Underwhelming is the operative word. Apple's product iterations get more boring with each upgrade. Classic innovator's dilemma. The iDevice line-up sells too well to change the formula, but there's no wow factor anymore. I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux), but i suspect they'll stick with evolutionary steps for years to come.

I'm probably still buying the mini. It may be boring, but its still the best of its competitors. Only microsoft's stuff might make me reconsider. I've been really impressed by the lumia phones, which have a better UX than the iphone in my opinion. I can imagine a tablet with windows rt being a joy to use as well.
i have an N7 and a Galaxy S3, I use gReader on both, which uses Fragments. on N7 you get to view the link in the same screen as the rss listing while on the phone it switches screens to view a link. The point is that you dont really need tablet specific apps for tablet display, just properly developed android apps.

also during the keynote (which i haven't watched) according to engadget some apps were demonstrated on both devices, one of them was tripadvisor, which has one of the most tablet optimized apps on android i've seen and yet according to the commenters the one shown on the keynote was a more than a year old version that wasn't tablet optimized.. bottomline its all marketing and mis-direction on apple's behalf.

the fact that apple has talked so much about N7 on their keynote which costs 130$ less than their offering is a clear sign that N7 and probably Amazon's new offerings are actually hurting them (or at least expected to hurt them)
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Thank you for the comment about your history. Back in the day I used to love Fuckedcompany.com.

BTW did you hear about the dot-commies?

They thought they had a right to everyone else's money.
There's a world of difference between "Configure with NVidia GTX 8800 or NVidia GTX 9500+ OEM Edition?" and "Do you want black or white?"
We are, but we're hardly a major news destination. No mention of it on NY Times or BBC (still early days, admittedly), but look at The Verge homepage:

http://www.theverge.com/

Top bar is all Apple. Zynga story is an entire page scroll down.
I have a Nook tablet and like it except for the fact that I can run only B&N blessed apps (of which there are so few).
Has anyone submitted a Chromium patch to remove H.264 support? I would be curious to see the code reviewer's feedback on the patch. :)
Tape has always been denser geometrically than HDDs. More surface area on a reel vs a platter.

SSDs would be the opposite of tape. Big$/GB low latency vs. Low$/GB high latency. Obviously SSDs would replace almost all other media if it could beat tape on $/GB.
I wonder what the averages are for users of business software. Lead to trial. Trial to customer. Paying customer to active user. It would be interested just to get an average of how many dormant paying customers there are for web-based subscription apps. I know I am a dormant customer for at lease 3.