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Agree with you about android's openness not making it to the end user completely. Its not just an issue with android, even linux based devices (like the Creative Zii) do ship with the source for GPL components but omit the tools required to flash a user built image to the device. I think this takes away the freedoms that the GPLv2 intended to deliver to the end user.
>the concept of a tablet computer is decades old

And it's been dead in the water the whole time. There were many failed attempts at flying machines before the Wright brothes.
Here's one place you might be surprised to see it in action: http://www.janestcapital.com/technology/ocaml.php
Let's go one step further. Instead of interpreting his comments as shots against Android tablets, let's interpret them as shots against rumors of a 7" iPad.

By speaking out adamantly against 7" tabs, he pushes consumers waiting for that 7" iPad toward the 10" instead. This increases market share (and mind share) in the near-term, so that Apple will further entrench themselves as the tablet leader.

Then, next year, Jobs says "you've heard about those 7" tablets...we've figured out a great way to make it work!" at WWDC, and releases a 7" iPad.

I don't buy into this idea fully, but it wouldn't be the first time he says one thing and does another (iBooks).
Bluff (a port of Ruby's Gruff) does less, but does it very well. http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
There are plenty of vendors who would kill for the chance to sell a box to Verizon that blocked all traffic on the ports that this would use.
The original statistic was "36% of employees frequently receive recognition at work". This does not mean the remaining 64% do not receive recognition. Furthermore, both the original report (Tower Watson), and this blog (Rypple), are incentivized to report the sicknesses of the workplace, as they happily sell the cures.
I can download an APK from anywhere.

Out of curiosity, do you (or any Android users reading this) find yourself doing this with any frequency?
Nor two: http://two.sentenc.es/
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There are other advantages to VoIP. Namely, portability. If your office has a VoIP phone system, you could take calls at your desk or on the go without a person trying to track you down, forward the call, etc.
When I'm receiving 100s of work emails per day, I would rather read an email written like it was from Ernest Hemingway than Kurt Vonnegut.

That's not what I'd call "quest for concision". It was a light-hearted comment.
" I don't know what is stopping HTC/Motorala/Samsung from trying to enforce similar conditions for its Android-based devices."

If say HTC tried to enforce such conditions, they'd have little leverage because their devices are practically Android-running commodities. If HTC threatened to walk away from a carrier, it likely wouldn't hurt the carrier that much.

Since Apple's the only iOS device vendor, they have a bit more leverage over carriers.
> He's basically saying "I know nothing and proud of it…"

No he isn't. He just deliberately, explicitly refused to tell. I'd say this is a weak evidence that he indeed doesn't know anything. However, he clearly demonstrated writing skills. This piece is engaging and to the point. The ideas exposed are clear. Both emotions and facts are effectively communicated. To me, that's mildly strong evidence that he does know something.

As for why no one would hire him, I think he knows: because no one hired him yet. After the first month of job-searching (during which he made some obvious mistakes or just didn't have luck), he has to disprove the premise that there is no actual reason for his not being hired yet. As time passes, this effect becomes stronger and stronger. Some comments here that blame him actually ignore this, and if most employers do the same, they actually trigger the effect they ignore.

Ask yourself: say you see 2 applicants, one who currently has a job, and one who hasn't for several months. Which one will you most probably want to hire? Add in a few cognitive biases (they're not easy to overcome), and your decision may be based on this fact alone.
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Causality is often confused with correlation.

Content that costs money is rarely confused with equally valuable content that is free.
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I'll often use the barcode reader app to read QR codes for apps, some of which take you to the market page, others are links directly to apk files.
You're very correct. The differentiation likely takes years of training to fully develop. A general rule of thumb to keep injury risk low is to never push yourself more than 10% of what you normally do (lots exercise books say this). If you can hold that level for several weeks without problem, it's likely safe to "notch up" another 5% or 10%. Lots of other variables at play too, of course (rest, stretching, warmup, etc...).
Option 1 would result in a lot of reposts getting back to the front page and option 2 would be bothersome or redundant for users that frequent the new submissions page.

I don't know how the current algorithm works but there has to be some exchange rate between independent submissions over a relatively short period of time (multiple days) to upvotes over a shorter period of time (multiple hours). I assume this is already part of the process and that your specific example falls outside of what the algorithm considers to be significant.

EDIT: Clarification
He kept mentioning price as if it was the only reason that someone would want a 7" tablet - 'because it was $50 cheaper'. I saw that as totally manipulating the listener.

I think it would be a great size, personally. I'd love something bigger than my iPhone but smaller than an iPad, and that's what my mother described she wanted, too.
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It is true that you can express yourself better through email than in phone. The benefit of having something documented helps a lot in the future. I think its okay to tell people that your preferred method of communication is email.
Getting basic functionality done now. I literally thought of the idea just a couple weeks before I filled out the app so I will have a demo done before interview time, but a public beta will not release probably for at least another month or two.

I have multiple ideas in multiple stages of development, like most devs do i'm sure, however I applied with what I thought was the most promising idea that will monetize easier than others.
I haven't found supporting IE7/8 to be difficult at all. I suppose I'm quite conservative about using the new functionality supported in webkit or firefox, however.
It really depends on your market, as this article and comments illustrate.
s/hoplessly/hopelessly/

Edit: If someone who downmodded feels like explaining, please do, because I thought it was a nice thing to do to correct typos in someone's essay.
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One day that guy is going to get laid. Maybe.
My initial response to this was that maybe it could get resubmitted with the boosted number of upvotes, so it would have a slight edge over new stories being submitted at that time. In addition, you could have this only effect stories with less than 10 upvotes, to prevent people from griefing the system. (spam submitting the same link over and over/necroposting old content with lots of upvotes by reposting it and giving it just a +1 for your resubmit).
So your argument is that the only company capable of creating competition is Apple. Strange.
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Wrt option 2, the new submissions page already contains stories that are currently on the front page, so it's already a bit redundant. Doesn't bother me that much.
I don't think fragmentation is only a developer issue. It breaks up the target market into silos, which means it will require more effort from a developer for less potential revenue. If this results in fewer and lower-quality apps on the Android Market, this will impact the perceived value from the viewpoint of the customer.

If I were to buy a phone, I don't want to have to worry about whether the apps on my friend's Android phone will work on mine. It's one more thing for me to worry about, and it may be just the thing to stop me from buying it.
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thanks everyone. I have a few year's worth of great books to read. Thank God for HN.
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You know what pisses me off.

There's this continuous drumbeating that we need to produce more scientists and engineers. So I went and got a PhD in Physics.

By the time I got my PhD, the American Physical Society announces that they estimate that 3% of my graduating class would get permanent jobs in their field.

So, the physics PhD mill encourages a few thousand of our brightest young people every year to spend 5-9 years of their youth getting a credential that's worth less than a roll of toilet paper. (At least you can wipe your ass w/ a roll of toilet paper)

At least I got an all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe for a year (a postdoc,) but I drifted for another three or four years afterwards before settling on a somewhat remunerative and satisfying career.

This sort of experience, where you're set up to fail, but made to feel like it was your own fault, can have a devastating effect on a person. I've mostly healed from it now, but so often I have to answer questions like "Why aren't you teaching?" and "Aren't you too smart to be a computer programmer".

The older generation does owe the younger generation realistic guidance and training to start careers and keep society running. When it sets up machines to chew up young people and spit them out, it wrongs them.
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> You seem to have neglected the part where I was talking about domain knowledge

I didn't neglect it, I just didn't disagree with it.
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I have indeed installed apps this way. I admit that most apps I've installed are from the market, although that's missing the point. Frequency doesn't matter as much as the actual ability to make the choice independent of Google (or indeed any single corporation).

If you think this doesn't matter in practice, consider Apple vs Google Voice on the iPhone. Apple rejected (or "didn't approve") voice, leaving iPhone users with no way to access it. Users would be better off if Google could have hosted a Google Voice package external to the app market.
I "can't run more than a block" but I can ride my bike all afternoon. I've only experienced this a few times on long rides. This was back when I was riding quite a bit more than I do today - it took about 30-40'ish miles to get it. For reference this is on flat ground at about 1800 ft elevation. I'm not sure about running, but I would estimate that 3-5 miles isn't enough - maybe 10?
I like number 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724516

I think that a resubmission should have more weight than an upvote.
Well, if you think society is unkind because it's tough with a degree, I'm not sure what you'd think about what it's like without one. :-)
An idea to address #2: http://imgur.com/HocGF.jpg
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If you really believe your story is FP-worthy and it doesn't make it the first time around, I suggest you delete the original post and resubmit it a few hours later.
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yes, but you still need to make a decision to file/delete. If I don't immediately know what do to with an email I just let it sit there or I flag it.

Nothing wrong with zero inbox, but if it makes you spend too much time agonizing over every email, it's not really helping.
Once again, the customer is always right. Jusk ask them to telnet to port 80. Geez...
This is compounded by the speed by which new articles scroll by in the "New" view. Right now the oldest New article on page #1 is 58 minutes. This means that I can't honestly upvote more than, say, 2 articles out of that list (since I wouldn't have time to read them).

It seems like the mechanism that puts new articles in front of people is at least part of the problem. Since they go by so quickly these days, maybe different sets of readers could get different "samples" of the New list, allowing those items to be around longer (but seen by fewer people). Since the HN readership is growing, I think it might be fair to rely on the statistical sampling this would provide.
Thats not really that bad though - you can still buy phones that can be rooted.

Or just not live in America :)
> So if some of the super-angels were looking for companies that could get acquired quickly, that would explain why they'd care about valuations. But why would they be looking for those? Because depending on the meaning of "quickly," it could actually be very profitable. A company that gets acquired for 30 million is a failure to a VC, but it could be a 10x return for an angel, and moreover, a quick 10x return. Rate of return is what matters in investing—not the multiple you get, but the multiple per year. If a super-angel gets 10x in one year, that's a higher rate of return than a VC could ever hope to get from a company that took 6 years to go public.

Very true, but this model doesn't seem sustainable to me, unless I greatly underestimate the number of companies that could provide that "quick 10x return" (or unless the amount of money invested remains small and constant year-to-year).

Imagine you start with $10M in investments this year and make 10x. To make the same return next year, you've gotta find enough companies capable of a 10x return to invest all $100M you now have. Should you succeed, the following year you'd have $1B to invest. In a very short amount of time, your limiting factor switches from the amount of money you have to invest to the number of quality companies you can find to invest in.

It seems their rate of return is going to significantly decrease, year after year, until they're forced to change their strategy to one more in line with what the VCs are doing.
One doesn't require "ruthless control" to "deliver the most integrated, user-friendly, clean experience possible".

Would it be possible for you to provide a counter-example that demonstrates your point? You may have a point, but it seems completely unsupported by available facts and I am hoping there is an example out there of what you think would be the "proper" degree of control to hit those goals.
Then people could game the votes more easily by submitting in groups, rather then voting in groups.
I think some discussion of the changing economics of web startups would have been in order. The reason why smaller investments are becoming more common is because people can do more with less. So perhaps VC's will simply focus on other industries like biotech, which don't seem to have that "problem" just yet.

Also:

s/risk depends/Risk depends/
Carriers can actually disallow side loading of applications. AT&T seems to be the only US carrier to do this so far and there are work arounds but the power is there for carriers to do it.
My brother has 2 degrees in Physics and can't even get a job at Trader Joe's. Apparently the anthropology majors are more savvy in identifying backup jobs and have already filled all those positions.
Over 100 so far. Haven't implemented the social media aspect that will really kick it off.

Still looking for a little bit of money to get that done!

Hopefully that could happen at the YC.
That wasn't the intent. Amazing how easy it is to write a sentence that can come off in a number of unintended ways, isn't it? :)
If you want to see where "pro-life" may be stretching the truth, consider that not all "pro-life"-ers are vegans. When they say "pro-life", they're trying to imply that embryos are people, which is really the crux of the debate.
There are probably other investors who will pull out after the announcements. They're just waiting for the second bit of news to sell.

Means nothing, really. Unless the announcement tomorrow is just about 'ipod socks' again.
They were the same people who went on BBC, posing as spokes people for Union Carbide and promising that they would finally pay a decent amount of money to the people who where hurt by the Bopahl disaster.

It might seem like a nice stunt, but it hurt a lot of people who where hoping that they would finally be given some help and Union Carbide didn't really care.
No, if you include actual sports coaches. But life coaches, yes.
I think it's inaccurate to say "Android" isn't "truly open". It's open when it leaves Google and the code is still out there. I can still benefit from that openness even on a phone that carriers added some restrictions to.

The blame should rest entirely with the carriers.

This isn't "Apple vs Android" this is "Apple vs Carriers".
He talked way more about his opinion that 7" tablets didn't provide enough usable area for real tablet apps than he did about price.
no, go to SF or stay where you are till you're ready to move to SF.
pg,

When you removed or upped the limit on how far back one can look (this was done a year or a bit more ago?), that change was made to news/ and newest/, but not to classic/ (still cuts off at 210 items). Any chance of also lifting/upping the limit on classic/ ? Once in a while, I like to dig back a bit through it.

(If not, hope you don't mind my asking.)
Then there would just be a bookmarklet to upvote by resubmitting in which case anyone who cared about their upvote would click "resubmit" instead.
It probably did not get the attention you thought it deserved because the title is just not interesting. If you think the content is worth the time, take some of your time to give it a better title so people are attracted to the article.

This does nothing for me: "IPhone's Trainyard developer share his story on how he got featured"

But change it to something like: "From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers!"

And I bet the story ends up in the home page. I'm going to drink my own koolaid and submit the story with such a title to see what happens ;)

Edit: I mean, look at what you did here, you posted this message with a title that people noticed and boom, you now have people looking in to the article that wouldn't have already.
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> Given that IDEs are the primary tools of programmers, and unlike Photoshop users our primary skill is to build software itself, why are IDEs not the most advanced pieces of software that exist?

I guess it depends what you call advanced. There's some pretty impressive work that goes into the static and dynamic analysis, refactoring, profiling etc. tools that you see in modern IDEs. Is that more or less advanced than software that can identify faces in an image? Who's to say?

BTW I think you're being a bit unfair to Eclipse. I agree about its performance, but picking on the download size seems a bit disingenuous: looking at the download page right now the largest package is less than 250 Mb, no more than a few minutes even on a slow broadband connection. Both svn and cvs are well supported within the IDE too. I've just decided to switch away from Eclipse primarily because of its performance, but it deserves justified criticism at least. :-)
What time are YC apps due?

First thing that comes to mind reading this: this could totally be a fairly easy but popular startup

Base it on email to make it Posterous-easy. joe@company.com sends an email to praise@workpraise.com and says "nancy@company.com did an aweosome job on her TPS reports. She rocks!" ... manager approves, praise can be redeemed for cash/products/paid vacation days ... morale goes up, retention goes up, productivity goes up. hr costs go down.

profit.
Agreed too. The Android is not open unless I can easily modify/recompile/deploy code to it.

GPLv3 would fix that, incidentally.
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How about Jobs misinterpreting a blog-post bij the makers of TweetDeck, by using it as an example of how terribly difficult it is for developers to write for the 'fragmented' android platform.

Just a little later the CEO of TweetDeck (@iaindodsworth) tweets this: "Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn't. It wasn't."

Help me out, is this a typical case of 'FUD'?
I would try option (2) first, but I would not default to a 'money back guarantee', I would just say they get a 10 day trial at a slightly higher rate than the normal subscription.

That way you get a much lower initial price point (the main hurdle), and you rule out a bunch of jackasses that sign up, use the trial, cancel then sign up again.

Refunds should be reserved for customers with complaints otherwise what are you going to give them ?

Also, customer complaints are a great way to help you develop your product so you want to have that personal contact.
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People have been predicting the commoditization of iPods for nearly as long as there have been iPods, but Apple continues to hold on to consistent market share (it's been around 70% for as long as I can remember) and continues to be able to price iPods competitively and profitably. What's gonna change to make this much-predicted commoditization come true?
Hate that I missed that as I think Trainyard is a great app...

I have a few observations about how I use HN and maybe there are others using it the same way.

-- First, the "Tell HN:" or "Ask HN:" is a real attention getter for me. The first post didn't have it and, because of that, it was easy for me to skip it in the submissions

-- Second, I rarely visit the home page or even the "New" page and instead I opt for the "Classic" page (the page featuring submissions that have been upvoted by a person who has been on here for 365+ days

-- Third, your quote that the post 6 votes because "5 additional people has tried to submit this story" isn't exactly accurate. It has 7 votes now - I just upvoted it.

-- Lastly, what time did you submit it? There is clearly a bias towards certain times here.
I should have put more time and thought in to wording, but the intent was positive.
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That's what the contact form is for. He's merely sick of the hiring process, as are all of the people hiring.
Totally agree.

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I don't think people care about their upvotes that much.
Apple could probably open source ARM Darwin in the same way they open sourced x86 Darwin to counter this argument if they really wanted to. Here it is -- but we're keeping all the interesting bits to ourselves.