skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to hear about what it took to transition to AWS. Any chance Joel would divulge some of the driving factors (reliability being one)? How about cost? Unlike my paltry webapps, trello gets a lot of activity and no current revenue stream, so I'd love to know more on what the cost difference is between running your own vs in the cloud. How long did it take to move over? Are the old servers being used as backups in the event Amazon has their very rare aws outage?

I know that's a lot of questions, but heck it would be an article I'd love to read and something I believe would be very relevant to the community as well!
no, this argument is weak. all kinds of implicit assumptions about markets and valuations. markets can be massively innefficient when dimensionalized by (for example) any other variable than information. eg. volatility. but vol has massive market value itself (see: black scholes). subject to massive externality (see: political economy). Regardless, asset bubbles are economically and politically problematic.
It's the Bubka effect :)
>But I personally don’t have enough experience dealing with agencies to say if their services are really worth the expense.

It's a crapshoot. You can spend $10,000+ and end up with essentially nothing.
One method I used was to scour code.google.com and github for android projects. Many free apps were more useful than similar non-free apps. Some authors had both free and non-free apps. Also it gave a small hint of trustability.

I like to G+ recommends by people in my circles.

I have not found any very good method though.
No, just forgot about it, I like Python pretty much.
For me, "better" code seems to come from a combination of confidence, creativity, and concentration (maybe not all at the same time).

I need a certain amount of confidence to go after a difficult chunk of work that may not really lead anywhere or may turn out to be too big a task to accomplish in the available time.

I need a certain amount of creativity to come up with new avenues to try when I'm stuck on a problem or starting to brainstorm a new project.

And I need a certain amount of concentration to power through a hard coding task (both to tune out distractions and to keep a lot of information in short-term memory).

I have zero experience with hallucinogens, but my understanding is that they can help immensely with creativity but are really lousy for concentration (anyone care to chime in?).

Straight depressants don't really help me with any of the above, although I gather some people get more confident after drinking. I tend to go straight from "pleasantly unwound" to "I really need to get to sleep".

My experience with (legally prescribed) stimulants is that they're really pretty great for confidence and concentration. I also find that being slightly behind on sleep is less of an impediment to coding, and when I get into social settings I'm much more engaged and generally better at interacting with people.

The flip side is that I often can't sleep well, and I can rarely nap, so if I get too far behind I end up clicking around the web like a zombie all day. Paradoxically I'm a lot less interested in socializing, even while I'm better at it. All told I would say it's neutral to negative on creativity.

I'm also not totally comfortable with what effect five, ten, or twenty years of daily use will have, and part of me really wants to maximize the portion of my life spent without taking a pill every day. So it's a mixed bag.
Be interesting to see how this was migrated, method, what had to be changed, lessons learned etc.

Would also be great to see a follow-on report after a month or so of lessons learned from hosting on AWS vs own infrastructure.

I will also be keeping an eye out to see if it remains as responsive.
That's true. I assumed that Braintree Instant had a JS SDK/API similar to Stripe (which makes it DEAD SIMPLE).

But if it's just immediately access to their existing API without having to have a merchant account -- you're right. Good catch.
> A retina display seems like a waste for me. I suspect a lot of people with poor eyesight feel the same way too.

I understand the emphasis is that it's a waste for you personally, but the statement above is analogous to a person with poor hearing saying they can't tell the difference between a cheap pair of earphones and a set of monitor headphones. To those with decent hearing, it's night and day, so it certainly has value in the market place.

The same applies with high DPI screens and eyesight - individuals with good vision will reap the rewards just as those with a keen sense of sound will appreciate high-fidelity audio equipment.
+1

At one point, people would love 13inch touch screen if it can be made as light as 10inch.
That math app sounds amazing. I think this is something that would be great to have in a Surface-type device with a touchscreen and a keyboard — I would love to have that sort of input integrated with Mathematica or sympy or what have you. I would never need to fiddle with LibreOffice Math ever again!
I used Trello today, now I appreciate all that dragging and dropping and sorting and arguing (erm... discussion) we had around our board even more. Thank you, even though I would have keep using you guys even if it had been down all day.
Natural gas and steam are pervasive in NYC. I think they are used less often because you cannot control delivery and running big gas pipes in a retrofitted building is expensive.

Keep in mind that Manhattan has NEVER flooded before.
Not sure about you, but I've had pretty decent success with the Podcasts app.

It was a bit cumbersome to learn (tap to show position/scrubbing bar) but it works well for my news podcasts as well as my podrunner casts.

I often find streaming works fine instead of downloading the episode... couldn't do that before easily in the iPod/Music app.
Not everyone tries to get funded by Y-Combinator for the ~$18,000. A lot more is offered; network, talent, investors etc..
My first reaction to this was "Puppet must either have horrible documentation or be difficult to pick up."

I mainly gleaned this from him correcting himself about puppet all the time and took this to mean he had a harder time picking up puppet.
Toshiba has announced and distributed to reviewers an Android tablet with a 13.3-inch screen, the Excite 13. Weight is 2.2 lb, price is $649.
Could (My|Postgre)SQL be considered a language too? How about RegEx?
I would guess a lot of the initial customers for the iPad Mini won't be too sensitive to the price difference between the iPad Mini and a comparable Android device. They may base their purchase decision on other factors such as aesthetics, or specific features, or app availability.

Also, it looks like "tablet market" outstripped "ipad market" in late 2010[1]!

[1]: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ipad%20market,%20tabl...
Gruber, Dalyrymple, Pogue, Ed Baig, Walt Mossberg, Topolsky, Sielger.

It's a tradition after a new Apple product launch for these guys to have a review.

You know that Gruber/Siegler are going to love it, and will write their respective love sonnets to the new device. They are solid writers (Siegler, in particular, has gotten better in the last five years) - so Apple fans appreciate their articles. Topolsky will be pretty analytical and provide one of the more detailed of the reviews that aren't an Anandtech class "we will tell you everything" review. Pogue will have an Apple Bias, with a bit of balance - but carries some semblance of honest tech journalism. Mossberg will be grumpy if something pisses him off about the device, but, in my experience, is probably the more balanced of the review. He has enough Mojo that he isn't concerned in the slightest about losing access to Apple. Dalrymple can be counted on 100% of the time to say a new Apple Device is perfect - his reviews don't get a lot of traction with me for some reason.
This is not the experience I've had with a retina MBP at all. While the increase in usable workspace is nice, I recently had to bring in it for service and go back to using my 2011-vintage "normal" MBP for a week - the only difference I noted was the lack of SSD. This is running the newer machine at 1920x1200 (or 3840x2400, I suppose) and the old at 1680x1050. My day-to-day work is all done in iTerm and VIM. Had I paid for the machine, I would've been sorely disappointed I think.
As you pointed out, passionate programming is at odds with a job where lots of other people are passionate about other things. For instance, a passionate programmer would not respond to a job ad that lists off the technologies they have to use, which is every job ad out there.

Most people in jobs don't want passionate programmers. If someone is free to be as productive as possible it causes problems for all kinds of people: The people who's jobs are replaced, people who look like they're not in control of subordinates, people who want to bill customers for lots of hours and work, people who want to maximize their political capital by controlling what features are delivered and who they are delivered to.

A person that truly wants to hire passionate programmers would give them a general description of the problem and business constraints, and then let the programmer take it from there. You don't see many job ads offering this.
I'm not - it's part of the requirement to provide some renumeration (esp. in stock) for departing executives regardless of tenure as their inside knowledge is very dangerous in the wrong hands.

It's also a lesson to the hiring team: you know you'll be paying some decent compensation regardless of who you hire or for how long, so learn to do your job well and hire the right person. Ounce of prevention and all that.
Please to be rereading my comment. It's addressed to anyone running a resolver/authoritative name server, not the attack target. I promise I'm well acquainted with spoofed DNS attacks.
"Font sizes on some websites can be a little small" Really? Like tiny fonted daring fireball? :-)
Fortunately 17" PVA and 24" IPS 1920x1200 and 13" PVA MBA 1400x990 are still basically ok. It will be exciting in 2013-2014 when High DPI desktop displays, iPad Mini Retina displays, etc. become commonplace. I wonder if it'll be 4K on the desktop, or some other standard.
> So now even Gruber admits that the 7" form factor is better for most use cases.

Except he doesn't. He says he prefers the iPad mini – as you quoted, there – whose screen is about eight inches, not seven.

http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overview/

The strike against the sub-10" tablets has been that their aspect ratios have consistently been closer to 16:9, rather than the 4:3 of the iPad. In my usage of the Nexus 7, I found that meant I could only comfortably use the device in portrait – landscape was physically awkward and made all the software look goofy. Which meant I eventually went back to the iPad. 90% of my tablet usage seems to be landscape.

The thing the iPad mini gets right is maintaining the broader aspect ratio while trimming down the size and weight of the iPad.
I think part of it might be working distance, and that the desktop OS still isn't really optimized for retina. The other problem I have with the rMBP is that it's glossy; I'm sticking with my 2010 17" Matte for now, and the slightly-less-glossy-than-Pro Air.
I've created a query in the data browser, just select the tags you want:

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/83626/how-...
Very interesting points and I agree with you in spirit.

One thing that's a bit ironic though, is that the examples that you gave are themselves very much corporate, pre-packaged experiences.

Kind of hard to tell where the rabbit hole ends.
If that was a conscious strategy, I have to question the timing given the volume and quality of things Google threw at the market yesterday.
My uncle told me: you're going to be working for the rest of your life -- five days a week, with minor breaks for vacations. Enjoy school while it lasts, make the most of it; there's no rush to get into work because there's no getting out.

(Yes, some people end up rich or with atypical work schedules that make the above categorization not true, and others roll the startup dice and have a great time at that too, but the vast majority of people, including many intelligent, interesting, and otherwise nontraditional people, fall into the above pattern.)

Ten years from now nobody's gonna care whether you've been in the industry for five years or eight, but some will care about your degree, and much more importantly you will care whether you took the initiative to learn something interesting (not about computers!).
He didn't. Just the usual HN Gruber bashing.
Just change the tags in the set:

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/83626/how-...
I mentioned this somewhere else. You know who's going to buy an iPad Mini? Somebody who already has an iPad. Apple is trying to keep existing customers in their ecosystem.
This product doesn't make sense for anyone else. Average Joe Consumer who's never seen apps on the iPad doesn't care about apps, or having his gadgets sharp enough to chop onions. But he does care about price. The Nexus 7 or Fire HD is a no-brainer for him.
I hate to shill my blog here (truth be told I don't even know if it can handle more than 2 users at a time) but I wrote a little more about it here http://blog.fullfrontalmarketing.com/en/2012/10/25/ipad-mini...
I would guess all server side but maybe they extract features on the device to save some processing/data.
It's odd that you imply that Gruber is one of the last hold-outs, and his change of heart finally shows that 7" is better. I still prefer the 10" form factor, and while I never knew Gruber was my last celebrity proponent, I can't say I care.
What would be really interesting is if they thought of a Hybrid-Cloud approach. I recall Joel talking about adding a new server every week due to Trello's ever growing popularity during his presentation at Startup School. Being able to spool up on-demand should really help with performance or for times when the datacenter is flooded. But wouldn't it be more cost effective to run it on your hardware during off-peak times and spool up some new servers on AWS when performance starts to lag?

Disclaimer: I'm a Trello fanboy, it's like having container classes in STL, only more visual!
"As a result, my advice to anyone thinking of dropping out is to keep studying, and use every opportunity to build projects and startups on the side."

Yes. In fact, I'd go even further. Don't even try to build startups. That's premature optimization. Just build things that seem interesting. The average undergraduate hacker is more likely to discover good startup ideas that way than by making a conscious effort to work on projects that are supposed to be startups.
These are just a dump of the .lproj/.strings on an OS X/iOS system. So technically, Apple owns the copyright on them, and this app is merely presenting them for educational purposes. Also, the licensing is dubious at best.
So the 1G iPad (which is a staple in our household) which didn't have any real competitors for 2 years - missed a key feature?

I think not. It was an MVP, finely crafted and still works well to this day for us.

Note when they did release a better iPad with a "missing" feature - camera - it had software that created a full solution (FaceTime). If Apple had waited until July (when the iPhone4 and iOS4 with FaceTime arrived), they would have lost out on several valuable months of hype and market dominance.
Yes, this is wrong. Has anyone read Enders Game? Hellooooo, I talk to the computer, we have "rapport".
It just now clicked for me why the Big iPad got a refresh for Christmas: because -Christmas-. With this quick and dirty product bump, customers don't have to feel like they're choosing between the Farty Old Big One or the Sexy New Small One. They get to compare fresh Apples to fresh Apples and no tech enthusiast is going to tell them to "wait for the new one".

This November refresh covers all of the Western holiday buying, all of the Chinese New Year holiday buying, and minimizes the inevitable disappointment and sales sag that comes with the typical iPad refresh in April.
> 1. If you use a Retina display for even a week, the non-Retina display will look considerably worse when you switch back; you can't tell the difference until you actually use the device for an extended period.

I agree to this. I have an iPhone 4S and an iPad2. Every time I use my iPad2 the pixels seem distorted.
Its very common to leave a few "pro-tips" as flaws to be fixed in the 2.0 model. See: mba 11 inch w/ssd, launched without lighted keyboard, etc.
Yeah, screw any company that has ever improved an existing product. The automobile industry, for example, has been leeching money from the unthinking population for over a century.

Oh, also, the iPad mini has cellular data options.
What is the YC Winter 2013 Application Deadline ?
YC application deadline has been mentioned as Oct 30 on "http://ycombinator.com/apply.html", but after clicking on the actual application the date is Nov 2, 2012. Which one is the actual deadline for submission with an idea?
That'd be simply too much of a liability. Yes, the authors of those books signed away rights to their stories to the publishers, and the publishers to Lucasfilm Ltd., but how well written were those contracts? Did they miss anything? Are you absolutely sure that every clause is enforceable? As there is literally a billion dollars on the line, I expect there would be no shortage of greedy lawyers calling up struggling ghost writers and struggling trying to make a case even if there isn't one.

I don't know what the new trilogy will be about (except it will probably have C3PO and R2D2, and Chewbacca makes a cameo). The one thing I am absolutely certain of is that none of it will be drawn from the expanded universe.
> most people can't tell the difference between retina and non-retina displays

That's ridiculous, unless you mean they physically can't tell the difference because they've never seen both products.
Looks great. You've chosen some nice samples (like showing that format specifiers are handled).
You have apply.html cached. Nov 2.
I'm in complete agreement with both you and the author on this subject. In fact, I've been intentionally without a smartphone for close to 2 years now. I recently had a similar experience on a trip. I'll try to keep it short:

Recently I took a trip to San Francisco for the first time (and I'll admit I brought my deactivated Palm Pre along to take some vids). On my third day there I came upon a guy making a cool form of street art: he wrote his own quote-able thoughts on masking tape and stuck it on a piece of sidewalk. I'd say a quarter of a block was covered in this guy's thoughts.

I started taking pictures like a typical tourist, then I met the guy making the art. As I got to asking him about where he got his ideas and such, something occured to me: nobody else was even noticing this art. I asked him why and he said "oh, a lot of people are too absorbed in their phones to stop and enjoy what's around them." I promptly put my phone away, but he had already noticed it. To him I looked like a typical teenager obsessed with my phone. "So where are you from?" he asked. He knew I wasn't from around there just by the fact that I stopped to enjoy his art. It was a little depressing, and it reminded me why I gave up that amazing Palm Pre. But hey, at least I captured a few moments on camera I would have forgotten otherwise.
Anything that will save me more than $10 per month. E.g. could save me money on bills, fees, government charges, tax, anything. But it has to be on something I am already spending money on (e.g. a recurring spend).
Maybe, but who is going to flip that switch? Until and unless someone does, the dependency remains.
I prefer the 10" Retina because it beautifully renders scientific papers in their native PDF format, and with Papers 2, the IT of research verges on genuinely pleasant.
Changing credit cards that frequently is bad for your credit, which often costs you more in the long term (e.g. if you ever buy a house). So I'm not sure that's the example you should give-it can come across as pretty short-sighted.
Interesting. What are you currently spending money on? Is there a process you hate to do, that you do anyways on what you're spending money on?

These are pretty loaded questions, but even a brief answer will be very appreciated :)
An feed (RSS/twitter) reader that takes voice (or wand-like) commands, reads me the entries so I can commute and listen to meaningful news without blind tapping my phone.

This is worth $5/mo to me.
I don't own an iPad and I just bought a mini. It's my first tablet device.
I don't believe these will be the first 64-bit ARMv8 CPU cores. Doesn't that honor go to Applied Micro's X-Gene SOCs? They'll ship a lot sooner than 2014.
Yes supplies, are only a small factor. A Broken laptop is an expensive cleaning. A quality owner/operator/business is going to take care of it to keep you happy but, that comes with a slightly higher cost per job. For the other scenarios you mention, I'm not sure your going to have that easy of a time filing a claim, especially if you mention "employee". To flip it around a bit, would you also bear the cost if a plumber/electrician made a mistake and flooded/burn your house?
> We all have some sort of window manager that deals with handling multiple windows in a consistent way.

Don't you like having tabs in your browser or windows in Vim? I remember the same argument being made when tabs were introduced in web browsers and yet, most people aren't complaining now.
I keep the credit cards open, I just don't use them and phase them out slowly over time. I'm very diligent with it, and because I use them often and never miss a payment my credit is quite good. Admittedly though this was simply the first answer that came to mind.
I agree that all three of your points are significant disadvantages, but I do think the retina display makes up for them. I upgraded from the iPad 2 and have no regrets (especially after selling the old model for $350). Even before there were rumors of a retina display iPad, I always thought the one flaw of the iPad 2 was the relatively ugly display.

On a related note, the added thickness and weight of the 3rd generation iPad does show Apple's prioritizing of battery life over portability. I actually have the opposite preference: I would love a retina iPad with the same size and weight of the iPad 2, even if it had half the battery life.
I was thinking "why the hell isn't this a web app?", but that makes sense.

EDIT: Rogue question mark. I'm Ron Burgundy?
I don't believe that showing the application reviewers what they you think they want to see (where it does not line up with what you intend to do) is "hacking";

It's lying.