skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "most", but I'd buy "many". But more so, a lot of people have never seen a high-DPI retina display and don't know what they're missing.

I have an iPad 3; girlfriend still has an iPad 1. Whenever she shows me something, it's painful, particularly text. Luckily she now gets the iPad 3 once my iPad 4 arrives...
I agree, but I think it's fair to say that education definitely exceeds the classroom in our fast-paced industry. I learned a lot during my 2.5 years in college, but very little of it, IMO, was related to classroom or homework-based criteria. It was almost all side projects.
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Perhaps in order to compete, Apple will need to get more nimble. For example, in iOS3, I could use voice recognition on my 3GS to play songs, skip forward, call people, etc (similar to Google's voice control) - it did not need an internet connection.

As of iOS5, you couldn't get this if you enabled Siri. So in order to do mundane stuff, you still had to enable a round-trip to an Apple server.

They should revert this so strictly local, mundane commands don't require an wireless latency.
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I could go on about my opinion on this for a while, but to keep it short [edit, ok, maybe I failed at "short"]:

- If you like programming/CS, then studying CS in college can be fun (once you figure out if you're more into programming or theory you can take more systems or theory courses as appropriate).

- Having a degree will never harm your chances at a company, and can be seen as a legitimizing factor at many [usually larger] companies. If things ever go south, getting a job at a bigger company will be much easier.

- You learn a lot in a short time at university. A lot of this will be the type of things often asked in technical interviews, so it will generally make getting a job in the future easier (the CS interview process can be a little biased toward college type questions rather than industry type questions. Whether the system is broken is another topic). You will learn things in industry too, but if you stay in college you'll still learn them, just later. If you drop out, you might always wonder what topics you're missing out on.

- I don't feel like you're delaying your life by attending university, as that's generally what people expect you to do with the four years after high school, IMO.

As to how useful university has been, I found it very useful. But university, like many things, is what you make of it. It can be useless or very useful or somewhere in-between depending on what you do while there (what classes you take, what projects you work on in your spare time, possibly what clubs you find a fit in).

I've technically been in that situation, and my manager at the time encouraged me to finish my degree. But take this with a grain of salt; I would have finished my degree regardless of what anybody said at that point.

You have a better idea than anyone else of what's best for you, and you should make this decision, if it comes up, at the end of your internship rather than now. But I generally encourage people in CS to get their degree.

If you have any questions related to that, I'd be happy to answer them.
I think the majority of startups teach great lessons in how not to run a business. Some of the best lessons Ive learned is watching others as well as myself inadvertently blow stuff up and realizing that should have been done a lot differently. Every once in a while the stars align but what the tech media doesn't say is that the majority of work that goes on in startups is doing stuff that is experimental but typically turns out to be a not so great or extremely bad business decision.
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The real question is, "are you someone who will start a business no matter what?".

If so, then I'd say dropping out early is something to consider. But do so knowing the risks associated with it. Any business you start will most likely fail. And many companies will require that you have a degree to get a job^. If you have a chance to move to SV then do it. There's a lot of negative aspects (group think, etc) but the positives drastically outweigh them. You'll have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who think big and take big chances...the type of people who are great at starting businesses. You won't find it anywhere else.

If not, then stay in college. A degree gets you a good amount of choice that you'd lose if you opt not to get one. But those choices are always when working for someone else. If that's something you can do (99% of the population) then the degree will go a long way.

I'm 34, now living in SV. Dropped out in my 3rd year to take a contracting gig at GM in the late 90s. If I knew better I would have came out to SV. Instead I moved back to Cincinnati and did a startup for 3 years before I was married or had kids. Now I'm on my second startup (normally spend 3 years at a "real" company between startups) but this time I have a wife who stays home and I have 2 kids. The lack of degree has not yet had a negative impact on me. But I don't know if that will continue.

^ I've not yet finished college and I never have trouble finding work between starting up. YMMV
It's not just that. You can get an idea of the traffic to the site if you watch for a while. When that information might be commercially sensitive then it could be a genuine issue.

For example, nba.com has been averaging about 3 connections and 1021 idle workers while I've been watching it. That's perhaps less traffic than you might expect? I don't know, but if I were paying for ad space I might be interested.
Brown Student Has Pretty Convincing Explanation for This Whole ‘Hurricane’ Thing
I've always had a soft spot for side-scrolling text layouts. I think the way such layouts break "Skim-The-Page, Extract-the-Juice, Run-Away" behavior on the web is interesting. It focuses one on the text; getting people focused on a text is useful, if you want them to contribute to an ongoing story.

That said, the UI needs a lot of work -- obviously, because this is new and different and rough. Finding ways to balance your UI's dualistic requirements (reading vs writing) with the accessibility requirements of diverse writers on diverse platforms is clearly going to be one of your major challenges going forward. Good luck!
You can look at the strings, but thou shalt not use them or even memorize them.
I think stimulants and amphetamines definitely have an effect on programming. Maybe it affects quantity more than quality, but Paul Erdos, one of the most prolific mathematician ever, comes to mind:

His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning
coffee into theorems", and Erdos drank copious quantities. After 1971 he also
took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham)
bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdos won the
bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by
a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled
with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he
promptly resumed his amphetamine use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdos#Personality
You can pry the retina screen from my cold dead hands. I've been using an iPad 2 for the last week as I'm preparing to give it away on my trip. My god, the pixels cause my eyes to bleed! I never noticed before I had the iPad 3, but somehow it just causes your resolution expectations to increase drastically.
I prefer the Mini over the full-size iPad in every single regard other than display resolution

So now even Gruber admits that the 7" form factor is better for most use cases. With the latest crop of Android 7" tablets providing a lot more bang for the buck than the Mini I think pretty soon we're going to stop calling it the "iPad" market.
I covered this in my blog and it has many answer comments: http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/the-5-saas/
Sorry I don't buy either of these reasons, I would chalk it up to the lower acquisition cost. It is still quite the 'luxury' good and there is a lot of market share in the margins as evidenced by relatively high resale value.
As an experiment, pick three random portfolio companies from a16z.com, benchmark.com, and sequoiacap.com and see what percentage of the founders are college drop outs.

In SV, what you know and who you know are both very important.
When the iPad 2 came out, I was really happy upgrading from my iPad. It felt slimmer and sleeker. I was not a fan of the iPad 3:

1. It was heavier. This is one of the few times this has happened with Apple products I think, and to me it was significantly heavier. The iPad 2 was already stretching it as a one-handed device, the extra weight on the 3 was the deal breaker and it wasn't that fun to have it for reading in bed anymore for example. The iPad 4 has not fixed this as it is even heavier than the 3. I used a hover bar ( http://twelvesouth.com/products/hoverbar/ ) and it could no longer support the weight too :/ (yes this is less of an issue but was still annoying and really highlighted the "trade-off" feeling of the iPad 3).

2. The performance sucked. The chip was just not ready to spit out retina-number of pixels. I prefer not losing frames to sharper text or whatever, and as much I'd like to, I really can't tell the difference that much when it comes to retina. I hear a lot of "if you use it for X amount of time you won't be able to go back". This doesn't seem like a great value proposition to me: "after X time this will seem normal (not exciting), and everything else will seem like shit!".

3. I could fit less stuff than before (unfortunately this is true no matter what given the silly way Apple handles "universal" retina/non-retina apps). I had a 64 GB iPad 2, and when moving to a 64GB iPad 3 and upgrading the apps they all increased in size by so much that I couldn't fit them all anymore (plus music, etc). This is particularly frustrating because it is 100% fixable by just having a system that distributes different binaries with different resources (with NO extra work to the developer).

I am incredibly excited about the iPad mini. I bought it at midnight when it went on sale and sold my iPad 3 without a second thought (which basically paid for the mini). As the article mentions, I always felt kind of silly taking a Macbook Air and iPad 3 with me, and after the Nexus 7 came out I would always really wonder which of the two to take (NOT a fan of the OS/feel, but couldn't beat the form factor). I now think this one tiny aspect of traveling will feel really good.
No surprise. As far as I can tell, Scott Forstall was the (post-Steve) executive who wanted to go to war with Google. He was in charge of Siri (Apple Search) and Maps. The minute he's canned, Google and Apple are suddenly best friends (though I'll expect Apple will continue trying to sue Android out of existence).

Google wants its apps on iOS, as they mostly care about ad revenue (not the few bucks they might make on Nexus, which is just one of many Android brands). Google has always been platform agnostic. Apple wants Google (Android) dead, but simply doesn't have the ability to beat Google at search.

Scott Forstall probably wanted Apple to create a massive data division, so they could go toe to toe with Google on search, and hope that people would still want iOS even if Google was locked out. I'm guessing the other execs were beginning to question this strategy - Google can make a "good enough" mobile OS better than Apple can make a "good enough" search engine and mapping platform. It's far better to let Google own search, and focus on doing what Apple does best.
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I don't know what Google internships pay these days, but when I did mine, during those four months, I was paid in the same pay range as full time employees in an equivalent position.

They even let me take three weeks of (unpaid) time off during my internship to get married and go on my honeymoon.
Can you site a source here? That's an important distinction.
Someday I'll be able to downvote you.
Corollary: social networks ungracefully degrade analytic ability.
The irony is that you where unaware that you are doing the very thing you are accusing someone else of doing. te_chris assumed that the author was projecting his insecurities, you assumed that te_chris was trying to look clever. ...and then downvoted for it.
Agreed.

so its not really for "startups", its more of a trick to get companies with capital to have a sales conversation with meraki.

Its a clever sales trick, but it also pisses me off. VC/Angel funding is not the definition of a "legitimate" tech startups. (to borrow from recent oft quoted phrases from recent political discourse)
Wow, that is pretty nuts. Did they install temporary generators, or did they run into unanticipated ventilation issues with existing generators?
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I took my 13" MacBook Air into the Apple store, and loaded some prime shots I had taken with a good lens into the Retina version of Aperture onto the MacBook Pro off a USB Key (I love how the Apple Staff who saw me doing this went and got a cloth to clean off all the smudges from both the screens so we could get the best possible comparison)

Long story short - the difference blew me away, and I fell in love with the Retina Display. The friend I was with swore he could not tell the difference between my 1440x900 2010 13" Macbook Air and the 2880x1800 15" Macbook Pro Retina - even with an App that had been optimized for Retina Display.

He just could see anything different on the screens. Some people just don't see the pixels.
Of note: this same "type it as you speak" feature, also using Google's voice recognition, is available on Android phones using the Swiftkey keyboard replacement, which means it will work whenever text input is available, be it facebook, a text, an email etc. It works so well my mind was blown and I actually use it.

Apple of course does not allow keyboard replacement either, so we're all stuck with the crappy voice recognition in iDevices (I have several, statement of fact, not fanboy-ism)
I wonder how many adherents Steve Jobs have dosed LSD because of his advice.
Hmm maybe I should make one to call you out?
Make first version of a device slightly inferior. Launch it without a key feature. (Retina display, 3G) Generate a lot of buzz in press. Print money.

Six months later, add that missing feature and release v2 of the same device. Print money.
Practically everyone I knew over 30 in the late 90s when DVD was becoming a thing told me they didn't see the difference compared to VHS, even on a 37" TV (big for back then).

Then I heard the same sort of things about HD a few years later.

Eventually I had to stop assuming that they were all lying to me... I don't know if people just figure their vision stabilized in the 20s and don't realize it's still getting worse cause they don't go to the eye doctor every year, or maybe they just don't pay as close attention as me, but I've heard that sort of thing too much to disbelieve.
The reason why I've bought an iPad2 instead of an iPad 3 is that I could get for less than 500$ a useful device (especially for educational purposes) with a cover + care pack.

Actually, you should make the same experiment as a shrink did with the iPhone5. That is, take an iPad2 show it around you and say it's the new iPad. Most people would believe you…
Where did he ever say that he doesn’t?
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One thing that almost never rises up when people talk about college is US work visas. Having a university level degree is pretty much essential in order to obtain a H1b visa to be able to work in the US. Of course there are ways around it but that itself is a good motivation to finish your studies if you're a foreigner.

I agree that school is good time to work on side projects and learn by doing. One other good way is to do a internship for a US based startup as obtaining a J1 internship visa is relatively trivial if you're in college. That was the single best thing I did in school.
CS Recruiting: What international universities are on par with MIT/Stanford?
Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to AWS' not so stellar uptime.
I think most people can tell the difference, but I also think people don't care about the difference. Increased resolution on the iPad (which can only run one process at a time) really isn't that pressing of a concern.

It's the same reason many people find DVDs adequate for movies. It's good enough. Yes, blu-ray is higher quality, but you can only really "notice" when they're side by side and get used to the quality you're looking at.
You wouldn't pay 5 bucks a month for a decent fart app?
I don't want to "hack" the Y combinator application.
While the Mini is unquestionably the device people want for doing what they already do on the iPad, which seem to be reading and gaming, there's part of me that regrets that we never saw the breakthrough multitouch apps that in my mind can only be realized on the larger iPad: imagine a mathematics app that accepts pen and ink input as well as a kind of sign language for massaging algebraic expressions (something that I've been toying with) or a video editing app that allows for fine scrubbing and instrument-like slicing and dicing. Of course tasks like the latter are waiting for processors to catch up. My point really is that I hope the market doesn't strangle the large-screen tablet approach before they can reach their full potential, if such potential indeed exists.
In my early 20s. Dropped out of college to get "real world experience."

In retrospect, the thought of having blocks of free time to pursue whatever I want is very appealing. For now I am stuck doing 40+ hour workweeks and trying to cram side projects in on nights and weekends.

I wish I were back in college.
If we're going to call 9.7" iPad a 10" iPad, then it probably makes sense to call a 7.9" iPad an 8" iPad.
Huh, I’m getting the same 10h/8h (WiFi/3G) with my iPad 3 as I did with my iPad 2. And when I say that I mean it: I regularly use my iPad on long train rides (5–6h), so this isn’t some sort of extrapolation.
Search this article - it explains much of the original rationale:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-epr/
Fair enough. You could have said that in the first place, but whatever.
You could always start with the fundamentals ;)
I could matter. Companies that have highly valuable patents can create what are called "patent portfolios" which take some patents, layer them with other patents and use the legal trick of "continuation" to effectively get patent coverage for portfolio as a whole by constantly developing newer, tightly-coupled patents.

Braun, if they wished, could have done so. Of course, I'm sure in that case, Apple would have probably licensed the patents or worked around them.
One refinement... the best part of the SwiftKey implementation is support for multiple languages at the same time. Switch input language, two clicks, and it will work. Apple doesn't allow you to switch language context (keyboard, yes, voice input, no).
At distance (> 5') there is no perceptible difference for HD vs SD video to me. If my life depended on it, I could not identify a show in SD vs a show in HD. Totally wasted on me.

And yes, you are write - a good pair of glasses would probably help.
I love the point that you don't need an incubator to start a company. I see many people who are only interested in starting a company if they get funded by YC.

I think it's a bit harder to tell people you're working on your own company full-time if you aren't funded and you aren't in an incubator program. The incubator program lets other people know that investors believe in your idea, so you'll be more confident in telling people about it.

But really, if you want to start a company, you shouldn't need the investor to have your back. You should be able to believe in yourself and your idea no matter what people think otherwise you'll never succeed.
The first cellphone with a primary e-ink display AFAIK was, as the article mentions briefly, the Motorola F3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
Unfortunately, it was a segmented display, which IMO limited its appeal & practicality. It was also 2006 e-ink tech, which had poorer contrast, slower refresh rate, and lower grayscale level counts than that of today. Additionally, it wasn't "available through Motorola's normal retail channels" in the US.

Really curious to see if this prototype becomes available; I'd like to see it have a chance to succeed. The better contrast levels and refresh rates have made e-ink more viable as a phone display. Unfortunately, e-ink seems to be more expensive than the color LCDs in cheap, low-end candybar cellphones, and the refresh rate and lack of color is not widely appealing. If you're after awesome battery life, it's probably easier to just get one of those and carry a spare battery or buy some sort of battery-pack case.
No Python, I'm starting to think OP is a troll.
This guy again. Jesus. I wonder how big the bags of money Cupertino sends him are...
Strange that there is no Python there.

[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it].
You're absolutely right! these are the python times:

* less than 5 hours (easy) => 34 minutes avg
* less than 24 hours (medium) => 100 minutes avg
> How we respond to another persons face when they are feeling different emotions is extremely inaccurate and quite useless, but we are all weak to believing that our conclusions are valid.

Perhaps in experiments where one has to judge a stranger's emotions from a photo or under conditions of active deception.

I want to balance out your comment with the obvious though - that most normal people are able to tell when others are distressed, stressed, worried, happy and so on - and this requires no analytic effort whatsoever.
Good point, but I think that Apple might actually produce an iPad-whopper some day, largely because of the laptop replacing types of applications that you mentioned.

At least while at home, the sweet spot would be to have a mini and a whopper (perhaps 14" screen, hopefully weight much less than 2 pounds). Having both, perfectly synced, would be great, being able to grab the pad best for whatever use.

Other manufacturers like Samsung might do this first. Samsung did such an awesome job producing the Galaxy III S.
So Python is deliberately left out?
Indeed there is an entire underground, for lack of a better word, for these kinds of services. They work on referrals and some continue to grow and add employees while, others are happy to just get paid for the hours the can work. However, because of the nature of these kinds of services opinions vary and that's the problem. One persons great is another persons sucks. I think Exec discovered this and is now aiming for quality and consistency rather than sending some random person over to "clean".
Re: Naming Style - particularly odd given that just yesterday he wrote an article discussing the NeXT, NeXTStep.

I'll be interested in hearing why he's not calling it the iPad mini.
>Here is the fun thing. In quantum mechanics everything evolves linearly. Therefore extreme sensitivity to initial conditions is entirely impossible

I'm not sure if that is true. You can have dense sets created by Linear Operators if you're in a infinite dimensional setting (which you _are_ in QM). That's what Hypercyclic Operators are.

In any case, although the wave function evolves linearly, the _square_ of the wavefunction obviously does not (by the product rule). Since all observations are going to be based on square of the wavefunction, or the product of it with it's gradient, all observable quantities will typically evolve nonlinearly.
Programming, Motherf*cker. Do you speak it?
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