skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iSupply data estimated the low-end retina iPad margin at 37%, which is consistent with a $129 profit. Apple is of course a master at extracting more profit by market segmentation.

Apple is basically the BMW of technology. The difference between a run of the mill 3-series BMW and a Honda to the average commuter is image + $10,000. The iPad yields a premium because its an iPad.
The M language is quite dated, but arrays in MUMPS are somewhat interesting.

"Arrays: are created dynamically, stored as B-trees, are sparse (i.e. use almost no space for missing nodes), can use any number of subscripts, and subscripts can be strings or numeric (including floating point). Arrays are always automatically stored in sorted order, so there is never any occasion to sort, pack, reorder, or otherwise reorganize the database. Built in functions such as $DATA, $ORDER, $NEXT(deprecated) and $QUERY functions provide efficient examination and traversal of the fundamental array structure, on disk or in memory.

Local arrays: variable names not beginning with caret (i.e. "^") are stored in memory by process, are private to the creating process, expire when the creating process terminates. The available storage depends on implementation. For those implementations using partitions, it is limited to the partition size, (A small patition might be 32K). For other implementations, it may be several megabytes.

Global arrays: ^abc, ^def. These are stored on disk, are available to all processes, and are persistent when the creating process terminates. Very large globals (e.g., hundreds of gigabytes) are practical and efficient in most implementations. This is MUMPS' main "database" mechanism. It is used instead of calling on the operating system to create, write, and read files."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Summary_of_key_language_f...
Nope, the "System Builder"/OEM license appears to cover that as well now[0].

[0] (footnote) http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2...
Pretty sure the pure "retail" version of the OS disappeared with XP->Vista. Everything on a store shelf today is an upgrade copy, and the version sold from people like Newegg (which is what I meant) is titled something like "OEM version for system builders".
Great Research. Just reading it.
low average learning curve : high average learning curve

radio flyer : motorcycle
It seems like it must have been flagged into oblivion because it dropped like 60 spots. I suspect you may be right.
...but not much.

The U.S. is ranked 24 out of 180 on the corruption index. While this isn't the level of China or Brazil, it's not exactly rosy either.
Children are useless until around the age of three. I never thought it would take them thatlong to become real people.

Love this answer.
Apple expects to have a record-setting $52B fiscal Q1 2013
We were incorporated in 2010, but can we still take part? We're a few months older than 2 years.
Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and vowed to stop the drone killings. The only reason not to vote for him is the whole "3rd party" thing (not that that will stop me).
I don't see a reason to be afraid about stolen ideas. The way i see it you would enter something like this just for the kicks....not for the prizes..and it's not like the prizes are millions..soo.. :)
Apple.com Timelapse 1997-2012
The license is for a single computer only, physical or virtual:

http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-new-windows-8-license-terms-aff...

The article I linked above summarises almost everything you'd want to know.
Shanghai is also poised to replace Singapore as the Financial hub of the east.
Build Parse Cloud Code on Windows too
I wonder how hard it would be for the digital eyes to track your actual eyeball motion.

I guess it would be tricky to fit an optical sensor under that under the mask, but maybe you can track eyeball motion by tracking the muscle movement around the eye?

Some quick tests (i.e. placing my hand on my face and moving my eyes around wildly) suggests that it might be doable. :) Possibly just by tracking how your nose twitches...
pizza?

I think delivery to where you are might be more interesting than to your door.
A service that did this regularly (like once a week) and then made the data available via API for syncing with other services would be useful.
I think that FB influence is largely overrated. As a matter of fact FB provides more convinient way to interact with friends.

If one day FB disappear we can move to another social network. It is very likely that we have our closest friends' emails so we don't loose any actual connections. As far as not-that-close friends are concerned, many of us will be delighted that we don't have to keep them at social network any longer (I am speaking here about people who managed to gather together 500 friend and they don't really know 70% of them, but are just to polite to delete them).

I guess if Dropbox would disappear or Google/Gmail would disappear or Flicker that would be really harmful for many people, but Facebook... Marketing people would be upset for some time, but average FB user will move to G+ or Diaspora or something similar in no time.

In fact, we can see how good e-mail is, despite spam and phishing problems. The point is that nobody owns e-mail, it is open standard. In the IM space we have Jabber, which moves e-mail openess to IM world.

In social area we need similar thing, the closest one is Diaspora, but we need something better. If it will be available then any larger portal would have it's own version, similarly as most portals offer e-mail accounts.
This. I hate paying $2 delivery charge and still waiting for 45 min to an hour around my area.
No Ext5 in near future - Ted Tso explains
You make it sound like it's black and white.

I know plenty of people who would hate to torrent of, say, Photoshop, but also don't think it's worth $550 to them. Having a bought license that's legally of questionable origin is a compromise many non-business users would be more than willing to entertain.
I'm not sure why you were down-voted, because I think you make a good point.

My impression of Rand's philosophy, based on reading the Fountainhead, is that people should strive for excellence, and not necessarily greed. I think that the RIAA and the MPAA fall more into the Peter Keating archetype than they do into the Howard Roark archetype.
Actually this is needed so that the applicant can be made a @startuppack follower programatically, to be able to send a DM when (if) you're selected
Mostly importantly, tablets and hybrid tablet/laptops are taking off and people want to use the same OS for both. And Microsoft has tried using the Taskbar and Start Menu for tablets before, and it sucked.
abeh,
You discount the value of time. If the startup fails anyways, it's a moot point. If it's successful, I will be able to afford it. I'd rather need to pay more money later for a startup that is doing well than spend a lot of money now on a speculative return later.
Lets not get rude, I've met some of them. They're bright folks using all sorts of technologies. I've seen vim and emacs (though mostly emacs). Their website does have some rough corners but they're working on a 10+ year old codebase and you'll get that as technologies age out. Their product however isn't just their website but instead their service. (The're a social company that isn't about virtual networks but physical ones.) And judging by how they fixed the misunderstanding it's doing pretty good.
We have an issue with Windows 8 that stopped us to installing it on some personal notebooks until sp1 cames. We installed Virtual CloneDrive from SlySoft knowing that it doesn't support Windows 8. After having a blue screen and being not able to boot the system again we tried with booting it safely and we couldn't! so we reinstalled Windows 7 there. Although it was expectable to fail, it was not expectable to not recover.

Beyond that, we were developing interception technologies to hook inside windows 8 metro applications successfully.
Apple's Pandora-Killing Internet Radio Service Is Coming Early Next Year
https://contribute.barackobama.com/donation/election-night-w...

The extra information was present in the GET parameters being passed through the URL query string, if you look closely you will see this:

&amounts=|5000|5000|5000|5000|5000|5000|5000|5000

Removing this simply reverts it to it's normal state, however you can set the amount you want, some playing around revealed that it accepts only signed integers between 0 and 5000, anything over reverts to 5000, anything under reverts to 35 and is a string is used it reverts to the normal value.
27, no facebook account...ever. For some reason I have never been able to make the time to use a social network.
I have a Windows 7 Retail copy sitting on my shelf.
Cool Idea! I've been working on my own version of this since Nov, 2010. I have my own implementation and right now I'm trying to integrate it with my EEG for even less friction. Mine logs Sms, E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Banking, Computer activity, etc and aggregates them all looking for the moments worth recollecting. I could never see my software running on a non-private infrastructure as it pretty much contains every detail of my life from what I eat to my sleep patterns and where I am at any moment.
I would pay premium for the following:

-Fast Food. Pizza, burgers, chinese etc. They have the word "fast" in them for a reason after all :) But i want them even faster than 1 hour. How about 15 mins ?

- Electronic accesories like batteries, chargers etc.

- Kids diapers (if you have one).

- BBQ gas cylinder (happned to me once in the middle of a beautiful bbq. had to run out and get one)
Trackpoints in scroll mode are also omni-directional. But though it Just Works on Linux there are all sorts of hoops you have to jump through to get that working properly on Windows.
Great app, does what it says. My Highrise contains more than 500 companies/people so it a couple of seconds but I got the report at the end. Appreciate https

M.
Personal sidebar ahead: by the way, my wife and I are having a competition to see who can get the most friends. As long as you're not selling anything, and I promise not to sell you anything, send me an invite! Right now she has 600 friends and I have something like 250.
The "they're identical" meme flies in the face of reality. Compare Antonin Scalia with Sonya Sotomayor and tell me Obama and Romney don't have significant differences that'll affect the country as a whole.
I would agree and disagree. I don't think they want to compete with the Nexus 7. I think they are afraid that the cheap tablets will eat away at their existing customers so the Mini is their way of saying "look we have that too".

I wrote this in a previous post:
The iPad Mini is different than anything Apple has done before. For the first time Apple is NOT building a product to enchant brand new customers and grow their brand. Instead they are filling a hole that they feel was threatening to pull their customers into other ecosystems. "Don't mind those other, more affordable playgrounds. Pay attention to how we mill the shit out of this block of aluminum just for you."
This was my biggest issue as well. It seems Metro could have been easily set vertically, but instead there was this odd choice for horizontal that just feels incorrect.
MS does have the wedge mouse -- perhaps they'll update it to support the correct gestures?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3265121/microsoft-wedge-to...
That seems fairly disturbing; couldn't you just say "you must follow @startuppack to be eligible"? Then you wouldn't need ongoing write permission to the user's Twitter account.
Or Keynes and Hayek.
I think the difference is between things that work don't need to be changed, just for the sake of change. Things that are broken, or suffer from poor usability should change. Not everything needs to change, but I think it's fair to want broken things to change without advocating that everything change just because.
That's an awesome move guys. Congratulations, you're moving real fast.
> In their generic message, they don’t indicate which product was apparently being promoted.

Yes, I too, was baffled as to which product they could possibly be referring to.
Man Buys 1.1M Facebook user e-mails for $5
Interesting writeup. I wonder how it would compare to the improvements from turbo-sprockets-rails[1], which is said to improve the asset pipeline as well (or maybe even combine it?).

[1] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/turbo-sprockets-rails3
It's not about money. Big budget logos can suck too.

Often simplicity is the beauty of it. For example, simple code that works effortlessly isn't necessarily creative but it could be and when it works, it's beautiful. Because it's simple should it be cheap? Expensive? I don't think there's a correlation there.

Beauty can be the intricacy of simplicity.
As a user of meetup.com - not an organiser - I like the $12/month.

It keeps pretty much all of the casual spammers out. It keeps the quality of meetups high since the organisers have to put a little skin in the game - but no so much skin to prevent even small groups using the service.

I can remember when they didn't charge. The service was worse.

For those who've not read it already, take a look at this story of when meetup decided to start charging decided to start charging http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2751-scott-heiferman-looks-ba...
If this is not an intentional parody of failing to think before you act, it surely will turn out to be an unintentional one.
I like linode - $20 a month you get your own machine, service is great, docs are too. All I can say is maybe its too much for what you want. You also probably need to know what you're doing but as said the docs are really good so I think even total newbies would have no problems with copy/paste.
I would assume it kills Grub. I haven't tried, but Microsoft will most likely demand you use the Windows boot loader as they usually do in previous versions. Then you can probably re install Grub and set all of them back up together.
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=anotherbot
I think this article is spot-on. You can call people who buy Apple products "fanboys", you can insult them for buying a product you find inferior. However, they're still buying the products. Why is that? Because they like them. That's all.
Part of the issue IMHO is that we need a big enemy to tackle big projects. ALCAN highway - 1800 miles long - done in 9 months during WW2. MoonShot - done in 9 years during the cold war. Big enemies unify the people.
.sx Landrush
I agree with your message, but I'd argue that the logos in that Speckyboy link aren't necessarily good design. They just have the marketing budgets behind them to become ingrained in your brain.
Romney, it bears repeating, has an utterly conventional and mainstream take on economics. This isn't Keynes versus Hayek (or Minsky or Marx or etc.), here. It's Keynesian with one set of tuned parameters versus Keynesian with some slightly differently tuned parameters.
FTL! Launched on Steam at about $10
Change for the sake of being different is stupid and shows that you don't care about your current users. An improvement has to be worth the trouble of re-learning how to use the software and changing your habits. That's why the Ribbon got so much flak - it moved every button and ate up a lot more screen space, for relatively minor improvements to overall UI organization and discoverability.

The UI-formerly-known-as-Metro doesn't seem to offer even minor benefits to keyboard and mouse users. It's benefits to Microsoft are more clear, but that doesn't make the inconvience to users any less real.
And it STILL doesn't play DVDs without additional software! sigh
I dunno, the iPad Mini seems like more a reaction to the 7" tablet market than Apple's commitment to remain laser focused on a few products. It's even a very conservative product launch that stinks of wanting to check off a bullet point for reasons why people weren't buying iPads.

It will do fine and definitely continue to increase iOS market share, but it's not very interesting as a product. I personally would have liked them to make something with a unique screen dimensions that apps could target. 4" apps, 7" apps, and 10" apps :-).
In the European Union the Data Protection Directive (implemented by member states in national law) goes into that direction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive).

It does not guarantee any kind of automated access (and in fact, only at least once per year do you have free access), but in theory lets you retrieve all data associated to your person from any company (and allows you to correct wrong information, respectively require deletion of data that is no longer needed).

If you try to apply it to Facebook, they'll however just redirect you to their data download tool (which only gives you access to a a limited subset of the data). It lacks some enforcement, unfortunately.
If you visit http://www.budget.gov.au/2012-13/content/bp1/html/bp1_bst10-... and scroll down to Table 3, you will see that in the year 2008-2009, the Australian Federal Government had a net debt amounting to -0.1% of GDP. Net debt being negative means the government had net assets - any debt could have been paid off with cash on hand.

Of course, you can try to argue Australia isn't a major country...
Why not write a book in 7 days on how to write a book in 7 days?
How did you manage to be pedantic on me? You are right. However I don't agree that it's "overly-simplistic" but I don't have statistics to back up my impression.

Also I think you are wrong when it comes to the US. In the US, corporations are legally obligated to maximize profits.
Now that article I would read.
> nobody would have noticed/cared.

Exactly.

It's OK. Not the end of the world to have a bad logo. It can evolve. There are plenty of examples of this evolution from bad to memorable. When your resources are thin, put them where they matter. But, put two equitable products up against one another and it will matter.
As a (paying) customer of Parse, and someone who really like their iOS SDK - what is it that you don't like? Is it that the stuff you're trying to do doesn't play well with the way the SDK is architected, or is a more general dislike of the approach (compared with, say, the rather more structured incremental-store based SDK that StackMob use)?
That's a pity. I just bought a new ThinkPad and there was no way to get it without Windows. It runs Xubuntu now and it's really snappy. I'd be happy to give away or sell the unwanted Windows license.
Do you feel like Vista ran slower than 7? That was my issue with Vista, the new design was fine, but it just seemed to run poorly compared to the speed of 7.
It's an application (example app or starter app), not a library. Stripe is integrated to the extent that you can set up a real subscription-based site with recurring billing. Yes, there's no Purchase model, but you'll find the integration code in JavaScript and the User model's methods. Certainly it could be refactored if you'd like to see a Purchase model but the integration is already there. The tutorial describes the architecture and implementation with much detail.
@wotaen - Thanks for the nod! I appreciate it :)
There are admittedly a few ways to measure exclusivity and define openness.

If you account for applicant quality in how you measure exclusivity:
NSF fellowships, top medical schools, top JD programs, top science PhD programs, many jobs, some country clubs,

The Rhodes and Marshall scholarships come to mind as "most exclusive." They're arguably not "open application" due to age requirements. I suspect YC has an age requirement too, but it is less restrictive (and less explicit.)

If you don't control for applicant quality, then even entry-level jobs are more exclusive than YC. I've been in charge of hiring for a jobs where we made job offers to less than 0.5% of applicants. Which is just to say that acceptance rate alone isn't the right metric.

I think I'm touching on a small sliver of the "most exclusive things" list. The fact that most of the world hasn't heard of YC would also suggest that there are also exclusive programs in other fields that we aren't familiar with.
I don't think this necessary means the article is wrong but that really depends on whether or not Apple has identified this exact issue.

What I mean is that most of Apple's actions seem to fall in line with what the article is suggesting. The one exception to this is, as you stated, the press conference. The press conference was designed around and addressed the exact questions that the press asks.

Now, what we don't see is Apple's website or TV spots filled with comparisons to the Nexus 7.

Why? Different target audiences.
The internet recognition is through limited edition Coderwall badges: http://coderwall.com/p/4me4eq
On the contrary, if you lived through 1970's and possibly '80's TV science fiction, you saw lots of scary robots that had oddly projecting faces.

With that in mind, it's almost 4.2% more unnerving than the alternatives.
CloneDrive shouldn't be needed anymore, since Windows 8 (finally) has built-in support for mounting ISO images.
I tried it (I'm within the EU), but only got lots of boilerplate and got pointed towards their data download which is very limited in scope.

As far as I understand, the first few people to try it got more complete responses, but the data was still incomplete.

So, while technically it is your right, good luck getting anything more than you can already download.
This year of incorporation requirement seems to miss the point... I incorporated in 2010 (missed the cutoff date to qualify by 17 days) but the registration was mostly to hold the name way before I had started to develop the product. Now I'm getting to the point where I could use the help but because I registered the name too long ago I can't partake? Seems like the qualification should have more to do with how long the company has actually been active or if it has even launched a product than when it was incorporated... not to mention one could just spend the $50 (fee for Colorado) to form another corporation to take advantage but that sounds like a major pain in the butt and generally shady behavior.
Why comment if you cannot be bothered to read the four rules?

"All entries must be web-based, i.e. playable in a browser. HTML5, WebGL, Unity, Torque 3D, Node JS, Flash are all possible - just be sure the source is made available on your fork."
...this is exactly what people don't seem to understand. Lots of people buy Fords and Hondas, and not so many people buy BMWs and Mercedes Benzs, but there's still room in the market for both categories, and BMW and Ford both turn a profit. I don't know why it need to be a 'winner takes all' scenario when it comes to tablets.
Really eh?

Whats the point in the password strength meter!
It's generally their terms, but it's $5. It's crazy to expect the world for that price.
Awesome work Mat - excited to see what you work on next!
From what I've read, the reliability is approximately the same. The real advantage of 5400 rpm drives is in heat and power. These are are valid concerns if you're running a data center but moot points in a desktop computer.

It does give the hybrid drive they're hawking a leg up in the comparison chart if they compare it to a 5400 rpm drive instead of a 7200 rpm...
I don't mean to twist this into a bitcoin debate/discussion, but this statement...

"But I am saying that the next center will be open to the
world, in the same way that previous economic centers
were."

... appears to help explain the support and rise of bitcoin. The only way it isn't yet open to the world is access and usability and there are people currently solving those two problems.
Private S3 bucket as Yum repository.
(this was the joke you see)

(our german friend is better off, perhaps, from the looting of those nations)
This seems far less egregious now than it was a few years ago...
Yup. That's what I was trying to show.